Inge Stoll


Ingeborg Stoll-Laforge was a female German motorcycle racer.
Stoll began competing as a female passenger in her father's NSU outfit in 1947. She then joined sidecar driver Jacques Drion in 1952 and won the 1952 and 1954 French Sidecar Championships. Stoll and Drion competed in the World Sidecar Championship events from 1952 to 1957.
The re-introduction of the Sidecar TT race into the 1954 Isle of Man TT races was controversial as it was opposed by the motorcycle manufacturers and also for the inclusion of Inge Stoll as the first female competitor at an Isle of Man TT race.
At the 1958 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix, a non-championship event, the Norton sidecar outfit of Stoll and Drion, while holding second place, left the road on a right-hand corner during the penultimate lap. The machine hit a fence and overturned. Stoll was killed instantly and Drion died after being admitted to hospital.

Isle of Man TT race career

YearPositionRaceMake of MotorcycleAverage Speed
19545thSidecar TT*Norton63.91 mph

TT Career Summary
Finishing Position5thDNF
Number of times11

World Championship career 1952–1957

Grand Prix career summary-----
Finishing position2nd3rd4th5th6th
Number of times13453