Inge Stoll

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Ingeborg "Inge" Stoll-Laforge (born February 11, 1930 in Breinig , † August 24, 1958 in Brno , Czechoslovakia ) was a German motorcycle racer .

biography

Inge Stoll came from a committed racing family. During his sporting career, father Kurt Stoll and his wife, a born Laforge, achieved some notable successes as a team driver. For a long time he ran a driving school in Breinig.

Inge Stoll began her motorsport career at the age of 17 as her father's co-driver. However , she was far more successful with her future driver, the French Jacques Drion . 1952 and 1954 were both French champions. From 1952 to 1957 they took part in the sidecar races of the motorcycle world championship with their Norton team . They achieved the following places:

Inge Stoll was the first woman to take part in the famous Isle of Man TT in 1954. Here she finished fifth with her racing partner. In 1957 she competed again, but had to retire injured.

Together with Jacques Drion, she won the Finnish Grand Prix in Helsinki on May 15, 1958, which was not part of the world championship races , on June 1, 1958 on the Circuit de Pernes-les-Fontaines ( France ) and on June 29, 1958 on the circuit d'Obernai (France).

In May 1958 she married Manfred Grunwald, who became world champion in 1957 as Fritz Hillebrand's sidecar driver. At the beginning of 1958 Inge Stoll declared that this year would be the last season. She had a fatal accident on August 24, 1958 at the Czechoslovak Grand Prix on the Masaryk Ring near Brno . Lying in second position, the team went off the track in a right turn on the last lap. It touched a fence and overturned several times. Inge Stoll died at the scene of the accident, her partner Jacques Drion died in the hospital on the same day.

Inge Stoll's grave is located in Breinig (today a western part of Stolberg (Rhld.) ) In the Aachen region . In 2015 the city of Stolberg named a street in the Breinig district in her honor.

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personal data
SURNAME Stoll, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoll-Laforge, Ingeborg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Breinig
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1958
Place of death Brno , Czechoslovakia