Rachel Knight was an up-and-coming driver on the global Formula Dee Grand Prix circuit - an American-backed counterpart to the European-centric Formula One racing.
In 2007, she married Knight City's pre-eminent horror author, the wheelchair-bound Tim Knight. Attending the wedding was her boss, billionaire philanthropist Nick Law who met his future wife, authoress Clare Grant (a friend of Tim's), there - and so is forever in Rachel's debt!
A member of Nick's Team Flamers, Rachel, just back from honeymoon in time for the 2008 season, volunteered to test out an experimental new fuel mix, much to her husband's dismay.
Unfortunately the volatile mixture exploded, seemingly vaporising Doctor Snadien Lankanotvitch, the Eastern European scientist who had concocted the mixture, but leaving Rachel relatively unharmed and gifted with an incredible collection of superpowers!
Although extensive investigations (both by Nick Law's security office and the Knight City police) concluded that the explosion was an accident, Rachel still suspects that it might have been sabotage - although she can't prove it.
Now with her portfolio of metahuman powers, she withdrew from racing and became the team's spokesperson as well as a part-time superhero.
This change in Rachel's position within the team opened her seat up to new driver Nick Naztilli, who joined Antonio Wasp on the grid. In their first season together for Team Flamers (2009) they took the coveted Constructor's Cup and Wasp claimed the Driver's Title.
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| Alternate Rockette costume - art by Dan Houser |
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| art by Rebecca Whitaker |
