Ewy Rosqvist
Ewy Rosqvist (born August 3, 1929 in Stora Herrestad , Sweden ) is a Swedish rally driver and brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz Classic.
Life
Rosqvist comes from a farming family. After attending elementary and middle school and training in large animal husbandry, she began studying veterinary medicine and then worked as a veterinary assistant. As an employee of a veterinarian, she looked after farms up to 200 km away. Her parents bought her a Mercedes-Benz 170 S to cover these routes .
Within a short time she covered more than 200,000 km with this vehicle and achieved ever shorter travel times between her home and the respective homesteads. “ After two years, I was already driving so well that in the evenings, despite all my interruptions in the courtyards, I was usually around one and a half to two hours earlier than my colleagues. "
In 1954 she married the engineer and rally driver Yngve Rosqvist , whom she accompanied to the Svenska Rallyt till Midnattssolen (rally midnight sun, later renamed the Midnattssolsrallyt ) and drove a few intermediate stages there herself. In 1956 she started as a co-pilot with Maybrit Clausson at the Svenska Rallyt till Midnattssolen .
In June 1964, Ewy Rosqvist married Alexander von Korff, who was then responsible for the Daimler-Benz sports department in Stuttgart . After his death in 1977 she lived in Stuttgart for a few years and later moved to Stockholm .
The Ewy Rosqvists Cup, which has been part of the Midnattssolsrallyt since 2012 , was named after Ewy Rosqvist .
Motorsport career
Rosqvist won the women's cup of the Finnish 1000 Lakes Rally on a Saab 93 in 1957 and in the following three years .
In 1959, ahead of Pat Moss , she won the European Women's Rally Cup for the first time on a Volvo PV544 . In 1960 and 1961 she repeatedly won the Women's Rally Cup and in 1959 and 1961 the Coupe des Dames in international rallying.
Ewy Rosqvist was under contract with Volvo as a works driver from 1960 and joined the Mercedes-Benz works team with her co-driver Ursula Wirth (1934–2019) from 1962 .
In 1962, Rosqvist and Wirth started the Midnattssolsrallyt in a Mercedes-Benz 220 SE and won the women's cup. This was followed by sixth place in the Raid Polski and twelfth place in the Liege – Sofia – Liege rally.
On November 5, 1962 won Rosqvist and Wirth on a Mercedes-Benz 220 SE, with three hours ahead of the rest of the field, the Road Grand Prix of Argentina . In addition to the overall victory in this long-distance rally, Rosqvist managed to increase the average speed from 121.234 km / h to 126.872 km / h compared to the winner of the previous year. It was the first time that two women had won one of the toughest long-distance rallies in the world.
In 1963 she reached 16th place in the Monte Carlo Rally and won the women's cup there. In the same year she was twelfth in the International Acropolis Rally , winner of the 2500 cm³ class of the 6-hour race on the Nürburgring and third place in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SE at the Grand Road Prize of Argentina .
In 1964, Rosqvist and Eva Maria Falk were best in the 2500 cm³ class of the Monte Carlo Rally, fifth in the International Acropolis Rally and third in the Spa-Sofia-Liège rally.
Rosqvist ended her motor sport career in 1964 when she finished third at the Argentina Road Grand Prix .
Web links
- Mercedes-Benz rally driver Ewy Rosqvist celebrates her 85th birthday
- Rosqvist - Sweden's most famous rally driver
- The grand dame of rallying
Individual evidence
- ↑ quote from Ewy Rosqvists autobiography "Passing the hell," Copress Verlag, Munich, 1963
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosqvist, Ewy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish rally driver and brand ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stora Herrestad , Sweden |