Penny Mallory

Penny Mallory as a keynote speaker for Lixiana medication in 2015
Penny Mallory (left) with her co-driver standing on their winning 2000 Ford Focus WRC rally car at Rally GB
Penny Mallory as a boxer in 2008

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

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. [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]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "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. ^ a b c d "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.