She also raced in 1981’s non-championship South African GP with Tyrrell though after qualifying sixteenth the car stalled at the start but although she moved up though the field in wet conditions she hit a wall while letting the race leader through.ĭesire grew up around motorsport as her father Charlie Randall was a national motorbike champion, winning the title on a Manx Norton, and she would sit in the garage with him while he worked on his bike, taking in everything he was doing. She entered one World Championship GP in 1980 with a RAM Racing-prepared Williams FW07 but failed to qualify. One of only five women to have competed in Formula 1, Desire Randall Wilson was born in the gold and uranium mining town of Brakpan, near Johannesburg, South Africa, on the 26th November 1953. Please forgive any mistakes in years or sequences but there were a lot of cars raced! This is a very long post but Desire has an interesting career plus I found a number of personal accounts of the races. She qualified 16th and, after a disastrous start where the car stalled, she moved up though the field in wet conditions, as conditions dried she fell back and damaged the car when it touched a wall while she was letting the race leader through. This race was not part of the 1981 world championship due, in part, to the FISA–FOCA war. She also raced in the 1981 non-world championship South African Grand Prix in a one off deal with Tyrrell Racing.
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Desiré Randall Wilson (born 26 November 1953) is a former racing driver from South Africa and one of only five women to have competed in Formula One.īorn in Brakpan, she entered one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works RAM Racing-prepared Williams FW07, but failed to qualify.
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