Louise Aitken-Walker

Louise Aitken-Walker

Louise Aitken-Walker MBE (born November 1960, Duns, Berwickshire [" [http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0057/ Louise Aitken-Walker world rally champion 1990] ", BBC Online - A Sporting Nation - New Sports, New Champions: 1990-1999; "passim". Retrieved 13 October 2007.] ) is a British rally driver. Aitken-Walker entered competition in 1979 and finished 19th in her first Rally GB two years later. She was the 1990 Ladies World Champion, the pinnacle of a successful 14 year career. She was awarded the Segrave Trophy in 1990. [http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/archive/archive_navmain5.asp?previd=481&groupid=729&tabstyle=main&style=RED]

In September 2008, Aitken-Walker took part in the "Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally", a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland. A historic Talbot Sunbeam Lotus was her chosen car for the event. She was one of a number of ex-world and British champions to take part in the event in memory of McRae, who died in 2007.

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