Marie-Laure Rosene Lambert (1935,
Geneva
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, Switzerland – 12 June 1961) was a female Swiss
motorcycle racer
Motorcycle racing (also called moto racing and motorbike racing) is the motorcycle sport of racing motorcycles. Major varieties include motorcycle road racing and off-road racing, both either on circuits or open courses, and track racing. Ot ...
.
Marie-Laure took up motorcycle racing in 1960, as a sidecar passenger, initially to replace her husband Claude's partner, who was late for a race.
Lambert competed as a female passenger to her husband,
sidecar driver Claude Lambert. At the
1961 Isle of Man TT
The 1961 Isle of Man TT races, the fourth round of the 1961 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, involved five races on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course on the Isle of Man. Three of the races were won by Mike Hailwood. He completed the six laps ...
races their BMW sidecar outfit crashed at
Gob-ny-Geay (35th mile marker) before
Brandish Corner
Brandish Corner (formerly known as ''Upper-Hillberry Corner'' and previously ''Telegraph Hill'') is situated between the 35th and 36th Milestone road-side markers on the Snaefell Mountain Course on the primary A18 Mountain Road in the parish of O ...
, and Lambert died from her injuries.
The crash was caused by faulty welding, which her husband had entrusted to a specialist. She died instantly when the following sidecar hit her.
[http://www.norton-club.ch/index.php/articles/anciens-pilotes/73-claudelambert]
Sources
External links
TT database rider profileiomtt.com
TT database TT resultsiomtt.com
1935 births
1961 deaths
Swiss sportswomen
Swiss motorcycle racers
Isle of Man TT riders
Motorcycle racers who died while racing
Sport deaths in the Isle of Man
Female motorcycle racers
Sportspeople from Geneva
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