A star in the rally sky - Obituary Ewy Rosqvist
07/24/2024
Ewy Rosqvist is dead. Sweden's most famous female rally driver died on July 4, 2024 at the age of 94. She had already ended her motorsport career almost 60 years earlier, after finishing on the podium for the third time in three years at the Argentine Grand Prix - contrary to its name, a 4600-kilometre cross-country rally over mud and gravel tracks - in November 1964.
Her greatest success was the overall victory in her Argentinian debut in 1962 - including winning all the daily stages and setting a new speed record of just under 127 km/h on average. But the blonde could also be fast on permanent race tracks: Together with her rally co-driver Ursula Wirth and Daimler-Benz works driver Eberhard Mahle, she won the 2.5-liter class of the six-hour race at the Nürburgring in 1963.
Six months before her retirement, she visited the magazine "Powerslide" in February 1964 and described her experiences from over 100,000 rally kilometersin ten years. Of course, she could not have known at the time that she would later become a brand ambassador, museum guide and test driver for Mercedes-Benz.
