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Ingeborg Stoll-Laforge (11 February 1930, Brand, Germany - 24 August 1958)[1] was a female German motorcycle racer.
Inge Stoll competed as a female passenger with sidecar driver Jacques Drion and won the 1952 and 1954 French Sidecar Championship. From 1952 to 1957, Inge Stoll and Jacques Drion competed in the World Sidecar Championship.
The re-inroduction of the Sidecar TT Race for the 1954 Isle of Man TT Race was controversial as it was opposed by the motor-cycle manufacturers and also for the inclusion of Inge Stoll as the first female competitor at a Isle of Man TT race.[2]
At the 1958 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix, a non-championship event, the Norton sidecar outfit of Jacques Drion and Inge Stoll while holding 2nd place left the road on a right-hand corner on the last lap. The sidecar outfit hit a fence and turned over. Inge Stol was killed instantly and Jacques Drion died after being admitted to hospital.[3]
[edit] Isle of Man TT Race Career
| Year |
Race & Capacity |
Make of Motorcycle |
Average Speed |
| 1954 |
5th Sidecar TT* |
Norton |
63.91 mph |
- *Event held on Clypse Course
- DNF 1957 Sidecar TT Race, broken hand-hold.
| TT Career Summary |
|
|
| Finishing Position |
5th |
DNF |
| Number of times |
1 |
1 |
[edit] World Championshiop Career 1952-1957
| Grand Prix Career Summary |
| Finishing Position |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
5th |
6th |
| Number of times |
1 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
3 |
- Total Number of Points;- 48
[edit] Sources
- ^ Isle of Man Courier and Northern Advertiser pp3 dated 5th September 1958
- ^ Isle of Man Weekly Times dated 22 May 1954
- ^ Guinness Guide to Motor-Cycle Racing by Ian Morrison pp142 (1991)(1st Edition) Sutton Publications Ltd
[edit] External links
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