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Fiona Leggate

フィオナ・レグゲート　/　ふぃおな・れぐげーと

Racing automobile driver from United Kingdom

May 28, 1980 (age 46)　・　Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

racing automobile driver

My Take

I respect Fiona Leggate before I even reach the details. A British racing driver born in 1980 in Lincolnshire, she stepped into a sport that stayed stubbornly male-dominated for decades, and simply gripping the wheel there demands a particular kind of nerve. The record on her is thin, but behind that sparseness sits years of pushing the throttle while fighting expectations no male rival ever faced. Speed, after all, has no gender, and drivers like her proved it on track rather than in arguments. Picturing a girl from the Lincolnshire flatlands going wheel to wheel with the men genuinely stirs me. I am drawn to anyone who carves a road where none existed.

Overview

Fiona Leggate (born 28 May 1980) is a British auto racing driver.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Fiona Leggate
Name (Japanese): フィオナ・レグゲート
Reading: ふぃおな・れぐげーと
Born: May 28, 1980 (age 46)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Gemini / Monkey
Origin: Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: racing automobile driver

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

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