Inge Stoll

Inge Stoll
Nationality Germany German
Born 11 February 1930
Brand, Germany
Died 24 August 1958 (aged 28)
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Isle of Man TT career
TTs contested2 (1954, 1957)
TT wins0
Podiums0

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-introduction 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 an 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 penultimate 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]

Isle of Man TT Race Career

Year Race & Capacity Make of Motorcycle Average Speed
1954 5th Sidecar TT* Norton 63.91 mph
TT Career Summary
Finishing Position 5th DNF
Number of times 1 1

World Championshiop Career 1952-1957

Grand Prix Career Summary
Finishing Position 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
Number of times 1 3 4 5 3

Sources

  1. ↑ Isle of Man Courier and Northern Advertiser pp3 dated 5 September 1958
  2. ↑ Isle of Man Weekly Times dated 22 May 1954
  3. ↑ Guinness Guide to Motor-Cycle Racing by Ian Morrison pp142 (1991)(1st Edition) Sutton Publications Ltd

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