Patricia Watson-Miller

Patricia Watson -Miller born Shek ( born July 20, 1965 in Wangen im Allgäu) is a British motorcycle rally raid driver who was born in Germany and grew up. She won three times the Ladies of the Dakar Rally three times.

Biography

Patricia Watson -Miller is the daughter of successful motorcycle enduro racer Herbert Schek, the German champion, European champion and world champion 15 times and took part in the Dakar Rally. She studied economics computer science at the University of Applied Sciences Konstanz and computer scientist. She now lives in London and works as a business manager at Portigon AG, the successor organization of WestLB.

Achievements

It started in 1988 for the first time at the Paris-Dakar rally, but had to retire. 1990 and 1991, she managed to win a built up by the father Herbert shek shek - BMW, the women's category of the rally. In 1992, she was on a Suzuki DR 350 Second - behind the former private driver Jutta Kleinschmidt on a BMW R 100 GS. In 2005, she won the title of World Champion in Ladies ' Cross-Country Rally World Cup. In 2006, she started again at the Rally Dakar on a KTM EXC 525 She fell hard, the rally could still end up as 67 and won for the third time the women's category. In 2008 she competed in the Trans- Oriental Rally of St. Petersburg to Beijing and ended it as a 19 Trans Orientale in 2008 was a replacement for the Dakar Rally, which was canceled this year because of terror alerts.