This sounds like Oban Star Racers.



Here are a few quotes comfirming that from Wikipedia:


  Unable to tell her father who she really is, she lands a job as a mechanic in his team under the name "Molly"
  
  Haunted by the death of her mother — a famous star-racer — and the harsh "reunion" with her father, Molly is determined to win so she can be with her parents once again.


And here's the opening sequence:

http://youtu.be/TIKQBNlwhHA

Anime involving aliens racing?
In Excel 2003, when you created a XY chart using time as an axis, you could set the scaling of the axis by typing in the date. In Excel 2007, you have to use the decimal version of the time (eg. How many days since some arbitrary earlier date).

A developer posted on a blog that this issue would be fixed in a future release, but all versions of Excel 2007 I have tried have not resolved this issue. The relevant quote:


  Those of you familiar with this technique of converting time to a decimal may recall that Excel 2003 allowed you to enter a date and time like “1/1/07 11:00 AM” directly in the  axis option min/max fields and Excel would calculate the appropriate decimal representation.  This currently does not work in Excel 2007 but will be fixed in a subsequent release. 


I was wondering if there was a way to avoid having to make such a calculation?
