Ewy Rosqvist - Sweden's most famous female rally driver
Summary
In 1962, Swedish rally driver Ewy Rosqvist and her co-driver won the Argentine Grand Prix, which was contested by 258 cars. Two years later, she visited a magazine editorial office in Switzerland and recounted her experiences on over 100,000 kilometers of rallying. This report portrays the popular rally driver and ambassador for Daimler Benz and shows her and her racing successes in historical footage.
This article contains the following chapters
- Driving experience from everyday life
- Entry into rally sport
- The great success in Argentina
- In a production-based touring car
- Continuation of the winning streak
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
At the beginning of 1964, Swedish rally racer Ewy Rosqvist visited the powerslide editorial team. You could read about it in issue 3/1964: Over the years, visits from racing drivers have become, if not a daily occurrence, at least a weekly one for our editorial team. We are pleased because the men whose activities we write about are welcome guests. We chat with them about petrol, we talk dreamily about this and that, particularly beautiful and exciting races, we talk about mutual friends, we wonder what the future might bring - in short, we are 'among ourselves' and feel good about it.
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