(Matech Competition Ford GT1 at Silverstone; Source: matech-competition.ch)
While the Indy Car media is still awash in
‘DannaWho’s resplendent return to leading Diva status... And Simona-Simona (De Silvestro)
continues to show her amazing resilience after her Texas Barbeque fiasco...
Upon watching the Saturday morning portion of SPEED’s Le Mans 24hr race coverage, I managed to
catch Andrew Marriott doing a “Bit” about the all Swiss trio of Femme Fatales
driving the No. 61 Ford GT.
And although I’d earlier recognized ex-FIL
competitor Cyndie
Allemann listed as one of the Matech
Competition’s LMGT1 pilot’s, I was unaware that the Team
had opted for the all Swiss female driving trio, which also features Rahel Frey and Natacha Gachnang.
Even
more impressive is the fact that Gachnang is hobbling around the Pits on
crutches after breaking her leg in a nasty accident earlier this year.
Ironically the 22yr old Natacha’s cousin is Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 racer
Sebastian Buemi,
and she broke her leg in two places at the Yas
Island circuit on the same day as Buemi was enduring his massive double Front
wheel failure in Shanghai!
Then
Messer Marriott elaborated on the fact that ten Females had contested Le Mans way back in 1935
to which Leigh Diffey quickly quipped; were you at that race
Andrew? To which the elder Marriott replied over the guffawing that he could report
that nine of the ten ladies were from Britain driving MG’s...
UPDATE
Unfortunately,
Matech Concepts, the parent company of the Swiss team's Matech Competition’s
beautiful Ford GT's, selected by Ford as its European Ford GT racecar
Developer, ceased operations in 2011...