Inge Stoll

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

Biography

Inge Stoll came from a family dedicated racers. Father Kurt Stoll was able to achieve some notable successes during his sporting career with his wife, née Laforge, as a team driver. He talked for a long time in Breinig a driving school.

Inge Stoll began her motorsport career with 17 years as a passenger of her father. However, with their later driver, Frenchman Jacques Drion, she was far more successful. 1952 and 1954 were both French champions. From 1952 to 1957 she participated with her team at the Norton sidecar race of the MotoGP World Championship. They reached the following places:

Inge Stoll was 1954, the first woman on the Isle of Man took part in the famous Tourist Trophy. Here she took with her racing partner in fifth place. In 1957 she was once again at the start, but had to retire injured.

Along with Jacques Drion she won the Grand Prix Finland ( a non- championship round ) in Helsinki on 15 May 1958 at the Circuit de Pernes- les- Fontaines ( France) on June 1, 1958 at the Circuit d' Obernai ( France) on 29 June 1958.

In May 1958 she married Manfred Grunwald in 1957 when Fritz Hillebrand Beiwagenfahrer world champion. Early 1958 said Inge Stoll, to drive the last season this year. You had an accident on 24 August 1958 while Czechoslovakian Grand Prix at the Masaryk Circuit near Brno fatal. In the second position lying the team came in the last round from a right curve of the track. It touched a fence and rolled over several times. Inge Stoll died at the scene, her partner Jacques Drion died on the same day in the hospital.

The grave of Inge Stoll is in Breinig (now a western suburb of Stolberg ( Rhineland) ) in the Aachen region.