Lee,
You really know your stuff! I bet the one I'm thinking about was 1967
Janet Guthrie and Liane Engeman and the Matra DJet. I must have been off a
couple of years.
Vaughn
----- Original Message -----
From: <LMR356@aol.com>
To: <vintagegarage@erols.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Women racers
> Looking over the results earlier.. I didn't recall any all-women teams at
> Sebring in the early sixties....I went to those when I was at U of Alabama
> (63-67), but recall most of all the Sebrings by heart!
>
> 1960 Denise McClugge and Pinkie Windridge Osca 187S , Camoradi Racing
> Team...finished 55th and a DNF with 34 laps.
> 1961 No all women teams...Denise McCluggage/Allen Eager ( a man!)
> Ferrari 250GT finished 10th
> 1962 Denise McCluggage ....no other driver...finished 63rd and a DNF
on
> lap 10.
> 1963 Denise McCluggage and Chris Carlise (?) MGB finished
60th....and a
> DNF at 32 laps.
> 1964 no women racers.
> 1965 no women racers.
> 1966 Donna Mae Mimms & no driver...Yenko Corvair finished 60th DNF at
1
> lap.
> 1967 Three women teams: Denise McCluggage and Pinkie Rollo, Ferrari
275
> GTB , finished 17th overall. Janet Guthrie and Liane Engeman, Matra
DJet,
> finished 23rd overall. Suzy Dietrich and Donna Mae Mims, ASA prototype,
> finished 25th.
> 1968 Janet Guthrie and Liane Engeman, AMC Javelin, finished 32nd.
> 1969 Janet Guthrie, Liane Engeman and Donna Mae Mims, Austin Healey
> Sprite, finished 23rd.
>
> Don't know if Smoky Drolet was a female or not... but Smoky did team with
> Anita Taylor in 1967 driving a Alpine Renault to 35th place. And Smoky
> again in 1969 with Rosemary Smith in a BMW 2002.
>
> I remember reading about the all female team..a long time ago.. .thought
it
> was in 1969. Lee
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