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[Bob Riebe]

https://www.autoweek...els-dies-at-95/

 

Murphy, the first woman to earn an NHRA nitro license, set land-speed records at Bonneville, speed records in NASCAR Cup cars at Talladega and in an Indy car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

 

The "Fastest Woman on Wheels" has died.

 

Paula Murphy, who set a land-speed record in 1963 at the Bonneville Salt Flats, who tested with the backing of Andy Granatelli at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and who in 1971 set a closed-course record at Talladega in the NASCAR Cup car of future Hall of Famer Fred Lorenzen and later in a Richard Petty machine, died Thursday at the age of 95, according to the NHRA.

In 1966, Murphy became the first woman to earn an license to drive in the NHRA nitro classes and she raced in Funny Car with backing from STP and even earned the moniker "Miss STP."....

 

Edited by Bob Riebe, 22 December 2023 - 20:43.

[JacnGille]

Sad news. Her and Don Schumacher.

Edited by JacnGille, 22 December 2023 - 22:09.

[Rupertlt1]

Paula Murphy appeared at Santa Pod more than once?

Where was the photograph above taken?

 

RGDS RLT

[john aston]

She did - I remember seeing her there,  probably some time between 1973 and 1975?  How exotic it felt to have visitors like her from the USA at the Pod . Sadly . my youth (hah!) meant I'd missed the legendary visit of Don  Garlits et al to the Dragfest in 1964, at Church Fenton , just a few miles from home .