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Meet Tuta Mionki – the first woman to show men ‘dust’

Female navigator Tuta Mionki [Courtesy]

Tuta Mionki’s calm and assured march to the podium belied the excitement that was bubbling underneath and at 10 pm last Saturday.

The Nairobi-based human resource consultant savoured a title which has traditionally remained a preserve of some of Kenya’s most accomplished racing personalities. Mionki, who has now been elevated from the Kenya National Rally Championship (KNRC) Division One to the Premier Class entered her name in the annals of motorsport history as the first ever woman to win the KMSF Motor Sports Personality of the Year, a title that has traditionally exchanged hands amongst motorsport greats like Patrick Njiru, Joginder Singh, Carl Flash Tundo and Baldev Chager just to name but a few.

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