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Mionki Tuta loves ‘em fast and furious

Mionki Tuta [Courtesy]

Belt up, boy. There is a new sheriff in town. She is brainy, passionate and likes her rally car smoking and bloody fast.

Tuta Mionki, 42, who was announced 2018 Motorsports Personality of Year award winner, a first in the in the history of the sport, grew up watching the Safari Rally with her father in Meru. The fast-moving beasts cutting through hills in the morning chill would pump up the adrenalin in her puny chest as cars slid through mud or span off the roads. Slowly, fear grew into great love.

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