All-girl team enters Production WRC

Ramona Karlsson, right, and navigator Miriam Walfridsson, have entered the 2012 Production World Rally championship in a black and pink Mitsubishi Evo X.

Ramona Karlsson, right, and navigator Miriam Walfridsson, have entered the 2012 Production World Rally championship in a black and pink Mitsubishi Evo X.

Published Jan 27, 2012

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An all-girl Swedish team has announced plans to make a challenge in the male-dominated sport of rallying - in a black-and-pink Mitsubishi Evo X.

The Ramona Racing team, made up of driver Ramona Karlsson and co-driver Miriam Walfridsson, will compete in the Production Car World Rally Championship.

Karlsson said at the team launch: I've been rallying for 10 years and this has always been a dream for me that I've worked for from the beginning. I have to pinch my arm, that it has finally come true.”

She said she’d always dreamed of driving in an all-girl team.

“When I started rally driving I was looking for a female navigator but of course it's difficult, so when I had the luck to meet Miriam I immediately decided I wanted to work with her.

“As far as I know we're the only women-only team in the World Championship at the moment. That is both fun and unique,” she added.

The PWRC is a companion rally series to the World Rally Championship and is limited to production-based cars.

Karlsson and Walfridsson have spent the past year securing sponsors and raising funds for the project, and their aim is to finish in the top five of the championship.

Ramona Rallying will contest six of the eight rounds of the series, starting on gravel with the Rally of Mexico from March 8-11.

Michele Mouton of France, who was appointed WRC manager in 2011, is the most successful woman in the history of the championship, finishing second in 1982 driving an Audi Quattro.

Pat Moss, the late sister of motorsport legend Sir Stirling Moss, was also a successful rally driver in the 1950s and 60s, notably with navigator Ann Wisdom . - Reuters

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