Donna mae mims racing games
Donna mae mims racing games
Donna Mae Mims: American racing driver (1927 - 2009 ....
Donna Mae Mims
| Donna Mae Mims | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Born | July 1, |
| Died | October 6, () (aged&#;82) |
| Debut season | |
| SCCA National Championship Runoffs H Production Champion | |
Donna Mae Mims (July 1, – October 6, ) was an American race car driver.
She was the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) national championship. Mims won the SCCA Class H championship in She was known as the "Pink Lady" of racing because she wore a pink racing helmet and coveralls and had the phrase "Think Pink" emblazoned on the back of her pink racing cars.
Mims also competed in the third running of the Cannonball Run race in November
Biography
Early years
Mims graduated from Dormont High School in Dormont, Pennsylvania, in [1] In the s, Mims worked as an executive secretary at Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Automobile racing
She and her husband purchased a fuel-injected Corvette and developed an interest in automobile racing.