Maryeve Dufault (born February 16, 1982) is a Canadian[1] professional racing driver, model, and advertising spokeswoman. She has raced in the Skip Barber, Formula BMW, Formula Renault, Star Mazda, NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, ARCA Racing Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series. As a model, she has appeared on numerous television series, most notably The Price is Right.

Dufault's father and brother raced motorcycles in Quebec.[ She began riding as a four-year-old,then racing motocross and turned to go-karts as an eight-year-old.By the time that she was nine years old she had broken both arms while racing. She began racing karts nationally in Canada and the United States in several series, including the Rotax International Series, winning several karting championships. She later moved up to formula racing, including Formula BMW USA,the Skip Barber Racing Series, Formula Russell, Formula Renault, Pro Star Mazda, and Formula 3, scoring podium finishes on several occasions, and captured victories in several series. Dufault has also performed precision driving for Honda, Polaris and Yamaha, and has also extensively tested Formula cars in China and Great Britain.Dufault began Stock Car racing in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series in 2010 by racing in two events. She signed as a driver development contract with the FAZZT Race Team in 2010,and was the first female race car driver selected to be part of the Dodge Motorsport driver development program

Dufault won Miss Hawaiian Tropic International beating over 35,000 competitors for the honor, becoming the only Miss Hawaiian Tropic International ever from Quebecand only the third Canadian winner. She, along with co-winner Lisa Kessous, also from Quebec, won the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Canada competition and both represented Canada at the world competition in Las Vegas.She narrowly beat the more curvaceous and exotic Kessous for the world title in Las Vegas. Her main participation reason was winning prizes including a motorcycle and Jet Ski, as well as prize money to keep racing.She was invited to the United Service Organizations "USO" tour, Operation in Kosovo, Bosnia and Macedonia. She has appeared on a number of television shows and movies like Driven, Entourage, Relative Strangers, The Bold and the Beautiful, Jay Leno's opening show and including the American game show "The Price Is Right" during the Bob Barker era.She modeled in the issue of Maxim. She also acted as a stunt driver for the movie Fast Girl. Dufault was invited to participate on the show The Insider, as well as on E! News to talk about women in racing and the difficulties of competing in a male dominated sport.She has also been featured by Sports Illustrated as their "Lovely Lady of the Day".Dufault said that she models to earn money to be a race car driver. "I wasn’t buying myself clothes. I was buying tires," Dufault said to the New York Post. "I am a racer who uses modeling jobs to pay my bills."Dufault said she still gets the questions and the puzzled looks as some folks struggle to understand her preference for the noise and smoke at the race track over the glitz and glamour of the modeling world

"We got back out and had a blast racing with everyone. Raced a lot with Maryeve (Dufault). She did a really good job. Really pleased with the way she raced. She didn't panic in the draft, held her own and battled hard on that outside groove. I was impressed; she did a really good job."

- FRANK KIMMEL 10X ARCA CHAMPION-DAYTONA

“Daytona Race The race restarted 10 laps later after most of the field made a pit stop, leaving MaryeveDufault, of Quebec, Canada, in the lead, and she remained in the top five for much of the race until she had to pit. “

- AUTOWEEK

"She's got the face of an angel...and the foot of a speed demon!"

- NEW YORK POST

"Lovely Lady"

- SPORTS ILLUSTRATED