Denise McCluggage

Journalist/author/racing car driver, she's been around long enough to remember running boards, but not gas headlamps. As a driver she has won trophies on three continents in rallying and racing. Chief among her victories: first GT, Sebring (Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta); Copa de Damas, Grand Prix of Venezuela (Porsche 550 RS); 1st in class, Rallye de Monte Carlo (Ford Falcon).

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As a journalist she is the only woman to have won the Ken W. Purdy Award for automotive journalism. She was in at the inception of Competition Press which is now AutoWeek (for which she now writes a monthly column "Now and Then") and she has a syndicated column called "Drive, She Said" in some 90 newspapers across the US and Canada.