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23 Feb 2019, 22:20 (Ref:3886205)
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Best female sports car racers
If you have to rank the top 5 female sports car racers of all time, what does your list look like?
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24 Feb 2019, 01:36 (Ref:3886228)
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As an American: Janet Guthrie and Lyn St. James. Michele Mouton needs to be considered given the LeMans class win (with Marianne Hoepfner and Christine Dacremont).
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24 Feb 2019, 08:44 (Ref:3886251)
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Lella Lombardi had a Sportscar career after F1. In 1979 she won the 6 hours of Pergusa and the 6 hours of Vallelunga. She also had a few Le Mans starts.
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24 Feb 2019, 09:59 (Ref:3886266)
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In 1980 , Desire Wilson won both the Monza 1000 km and the Silverstone 6 Hours after a third place finish at Brands Hatch alongside Alain De Cadenet in his eponymous car . They went on to finish seventh at Le Mans that year .
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24 Feb 2019, 10:04 (Ref:3886270)
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Definitely Lyn St James and Desire Wilson should be up there. Others I need to think about
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24 Feb 2019, 11:28 (Ref:3886291)
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Flick Haigh surely needs a mention- British GT Champ last year.
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24 Feb 2019, 12:12 (Ref:3886302)
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Lilian Bryner must rate very highly as she was part of the winning team in the 2004 Spa 24 Hours having been runner-up the previous year . She also finished fourth in the Daytona 24 Hours in a Ferrari 333SP as well as numerous other podium finishes usually in either a Ferrari 550 Maranello or 333SP , more often than not alongside regular co-driver Enzo Calderari .
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25 Feb 2019, 08:58 (Ref:3886455)
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I nominate Claudia Hurtgen
(as always, define 'best'. win-to-start ratio? length of pro career? no. of overall race wins? no. of race starts? mentions-per-year on facebook? etc etc) |
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25 Feb 2019, 09:55 (Ref:3886471)
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Sorry can't remember when Claudia did sports cars-have been folowing the sport since 1950s-current best got to be Katherine Legge who I thunk founded my special interest in female racers when I saw her live at Brands Hatch in the 80s
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25 Feb 2019, 10:09 (Ref:3886474)
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Claudia drove many Years ADAC GT Masters, with the big GT´s in the VLN/24h Nbr etc. And Legge (born 1980) drove in the 80s in Brands Hatch? 
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26 Feb 2019, 00:25 (Ref:3886633)
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26 Feb 2019, 08:51 (Ref:3886686)
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 Must have been thinking of Heather Baillie who raced single seaters F.First & Forward
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