Penny Mallory

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Penny Mallory as a keynote speaker for The Morson Group in 2024.
Penny Mallory (left) with her co-driver standing on their winning 2000 Ford Focus WRC rally car at Rally GB Penny Mallory Ford Focus WRC.jpg
Penny Mallory (left) with her co-driver standing on their winning 2000 Ford Focus WRC rally car at Rally GB
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Penny Mallory as a boxer in 2008

Penny Mallory is an English keynote speaker, and TedX speaker, on Mental Toughness, performance coach and a former British Rally Championship driver. [1]

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She is a Leading Authority on Mental Toughness. She became the first woman to drive a World Rally Car (WRC)-specification in the otherwise male-dominated FIA World Rally Championship. [1] Penny has been a boxer, mountaineer, marathon runner and triathlete and is training to row the Atlantic Ocean in 2026. [2] [3]

She also worked as a precision stunt driver, playing both 'Nicole' and 'Papa', for two Renault Clio commercials. [2]

Mallory is also a former television presenter; she co-hosted Channel 4's motoring programme Driven [1] alongside Mike Brewer and Jason Plato, and Accident Black Spot. [1] She also co-hosted with Jason Dawe on the Used Car Roadshow, [1] which was originally broadcast on Men & Motors and later was occasionally repeated on ITV4. [2] She presented Classic Car Club for Discovery [1] with Edd China, Tony Mason and Alex Riley. She also previously co-presented Channel 4's programme on the World Rally Championship (WRC) series, until it was taken over by ITV in 2004. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Penny Mallory – rally driving champion and TV motor presenter". www.PersonallySpeakingBureau.com. Personally Speaking Bureau. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Used Car Roadshow on Men & Motors". Porsche968UK.co.uk. Porsche 968 UK club. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. Greenstreet, Rosanna (2 June 2001). "My first home: Penny Mallory" . www.Telegraph.co.uk. Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.