Donna Mae Mims

Who was Donna Mae Mims?

Donna Mae Mims was an American race car driver. She was the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship. Mims won the SCCA Class H championship in 1963. She was known as the "Pink Lady" of racing because she wore a pink racing helmet and coveralls and had the phrase "Think Pink" emblazoned on the back of her pink racing cars. Mims also competed in the fourth running of the Cannonball Run race in March 1979.