| 词条 | Denise McCluggage |
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Auto racingIn San Francisco in the early 1950s, while covering a yacht race, she met Briggs Cunningham, who built the first American cars to race at Le Mans. She bought her first sports car, an MG TC Midget, and began racing at small club events. In 1954 she moved to New York to work at the New York Herald Tribune as a sports journalist. The MG was replaced with a Jaguar XK140; she began to race professionally, and earned the respect of her male counterparts. Her trademark was a white helmet with pink dots. Her racing achievements included winning the grand touring category at Sebring in a Ferrari 250 GT in 1961, and a class win in the Monte Carlo Rally in a Ford Falcon in 1964. She also participated in the 1000-km race at the Nürburgring. She drove Porsches, Maseratis, and other racing cars of many marques, often with another woman driver, Pinkie Rollo. She ended her racing career in the late 1960s.[1] PublishingShe helped launch the U.S. automotive magazine Competition Press, now AutoWeek.[1] She wrote many columns for AutoWeek, and was a Senior Contributing Editor there until her death on May 6, 2015.[1] Skiing{{unreferenced section|date=May 2016}}In the mid-1950s, after a failed lobbying attempt to get the State of New York to develop a new ski area on Hunter Mountain, the original investor group contacted McCluggage, then a sports reporter at the New York Herald Tribune. They told her they had a mountain to give away to any developer who would build a ski area called "Hunter Mountain". McCluggage wrote an article that attracted the interest of a group of Broadway show-business people. In 1977 McCluggage authored the book The Centered Skier, published by Vermont Crossroads Press owned by Constance Cappel and R. A. Montgomery. It mixed elements of sports psychology and Zen Buddhism highlighted by calligraphy by Al Huang. It became the foundation of approaches taken by the likes of the Sugarbush Ski School. On the Professional Ski Instructors of America reading list, the book had a resurgence when parabolic shaped skis were invented in the mid-1990s, putting carved turns, rather than skidded turns, within reach for recreational skiers. JournalismShe held both the Ken W. Purdy Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism[2] and the Dean Batchelor Lifetime Achievement Award.[3] She was presented a lifetime achievement award by the IAMA and is the only journalist to have been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. Her weekly syndicated column called "Drive, She Said" appeared in some 90 newspapers across the U.S. and Canada. McCluggage was the author of a number of books including The Centered Skier and By Brooks Too Broad for Leaping (a collection of pieces from AutoWeek). She wrote the text to accompany Tom Burnside's photographs for American Racing: Road Racing in the 50s and 60s.[4] She also wrote “Are You a ‘Woman Driver?’” and "The Centered Skier".[5] Personal lifeDenise McCluggage was married for one year to actor Michael Conrad until their divorce. She died on May 6, 2015, aged 88.[1] She was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2001[6][7] and Sebring Hall of Fame in 2012.[8] References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://autoweek.com/article/car-life/denise-mccluggage-1927-2015|title=Denise McCluggage: 1927-2015|work=Autoweek|accessdate=May 7, 2015}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=KEN W. PURDY AWARD WINNERS|url=http://www.impa.org/ken_purdy_award_winners.cfm|publisher=International Motor Press Association|accessdate=December 25, 2013}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Dean Batchelor Award|url=http://www.motorpressguild.org/dean-batchelor-award|publisher=Motor Press Guild|accessdate=December 25, 2013}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|last=Stone|first=Matt|title=A Racer named Denise: The Fastest Woman on Four Wheels|url=http://www.roadandtravel.com/celebrities/denise_mccluggage.html|publisher=RoadAndTravel.com|accessdate=December 25, 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|last1=Woodard|first1=Justine|title=5 Denise McCluggage books every enthusiast should read|url=http://autoweek.com/article/car-life/5-denise-mccluggage-books-every-enthusiast-should-read|publisher=Autoweek|accessdate=January 18, 2016|date=May 7, 2015}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.stowetoday.com/things_to_do/outside/denise-mccluggage-introduced-psychology-as-a-tool-in-skiing/article_4644724c-db49-11e5-b079-bb9275ff657e.html|work=Stowe Today|title=RETROSKI: Denise McCluggage introduced psychology as a tool in skiing|first1=Greg|last1=Morrill|date=February 25, 2016|accessdate=March 5, 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/inductee/denise-mccluggage/183|year=2001|title=Denise McCluggage|work=Hall of Fame Inductees|publisher=Automotive Hall of Fame|accessdate=March 5, 2016}} 8. ^{{cite news |last1=Wallace |first1=Amy |title=Lady Leadfoot |url=https://www.si.com/racing/2018/10/29/denise-mccluggage-racing-driver-journalist |accessdate=30 October 2018 |work=Sports Illustrated |date=29 October 2018}} External links
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