1. Elizabeth Haig was a British racing driver who competed in rallying, hill climbs and historic racing.
14 Facts About Betty Haig
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Betty Haig won the 1936 Olympic Rally, the first and last time after 1900 that an automobile race was part of the Olympic Games.
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Betty Haig was a member of the Scottish whisky-distilling Haig family.
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Betty Haig was the grand-niece of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919.
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Betty Haig attended the very first British Grand Prix in 1926.
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The first race Betty Haig entered was the Junior Racing Drivers Club Speed Hill Climb Chalfont St Peter in 1934, which she ran with her recently acquired Singer Nine Le Mans, registration AKV 795.
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In 1936 Betty Haig won a gold medal for finishing first in the Olympic Rally held in conjunction with the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Betty Haig used a six-cylinder Singer Nine Le Mans in the race, and was accompanied by co-driver Lambert.
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On 7 May 1938 Betty Haig was injured at Brooklands, but not while driving.
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Betty Haig made regular appearances at Goodwood, among other locations, through the 1950s.
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Betty Haig won the National Ladies Hillclimb Championship two years running in 1960 and 1961 in a Coventry-Climax powered Lotus Seven.
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Betty Haig held the Ladies' hillclimb record at Prescott for six years.
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Betty Haig was a charter member of such clubs as the Frazer Nash car Club and the Porsche Club of Great Britain.
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Betty Haig lived there with her frequent co-driver and long-time companion Barbara Marshall until the latter's death in early 1977.