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Fiona Leggate is a British auto racing driver, born on May 28, 1980 in Lincolnshire. Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, autosport or motorsport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ...
May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ...
1980 (MCMLXXX in Roman) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Fiona had been interested in motorsport since her childhood, influenced by her father Malcolm Leggate who had a 19-year career in saloon car racing.
After competing in showjumping and dressage events she switched her attention from horseriding to horsepower, entering and winning a competition to drive with ex-British Rally Champion Gwyndaff Evans. Show jumping is a form of competition in which horses are jumped over a course of fences, low walls, and other obstacles (e. ...
The fundamental purpose of dressage (a French term meaning training) is to develop, through standardized progressive training methods, a horses natural athletic ability and willingness to perform, thereby maximizing its potential as a riding horse. ...
This led to her spending 2003 and 2004 contesting various championships, and in July 2004 she set a World Record for the most races contested in one day. A world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, usually a sports event. ...
Leggate entered the BTCC in 2005, joining halfway through the season in a Vauxhall Astra Coupe acquired from the championship-winning works team but converted to run on bio-ethanol fuel. She scored 12 points and gained much publicity for envionmentally-friendly fuel. The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ...
The use of ethanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long-term economical advantages over fossil fuel. ...
For 2006 Fiona will once again be racing in the BTCC.
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