It's hard for many enthusiasts to know just where they got their love for cars, but it's arguable that every enthusiast is born with the passion and all it takes is a small injection of inspiration to bring that love to life. Anything can spark it, be it the first time ever seeing a supercar in the form of a yellow Lamborghini Diablo or feeling like the Millennium Falcon going into warp drive at the launch of a highly modified Nissan 200SX SER.

For this woman, it was a debilitating accident that brought out her love for cars. Out of the 200 women in the UK with a racing driver's license, Nathalie McGloin is the only one that is paralyzed.

Don't let her gender or the results of her major spinal cord injury let you think for a second that it means she can't totally pass you on the race track. The start of McGloin's racing career happened when she wandered into a Porsche dealership in the UK and was just about to leave when a stray 911 caught her eye. After a friend played devil's advocate, telling her that there's no way in hell she could drive such a ferocious machine, McGloin decided to prove him wrong and bought the rear-engine sports car. As they say, the rest is history.