Ana Arche

Ana Arche is a driver and co-driver from Spain, who is most associated with the Fiat marque.

Her career began in the co-driver's seat, navigating for Gonzalo Arche in his Renault Clio in 1991 and 1992. She began driving herself in 1995, when she entered the Fiat Cinquecento Trophy in Spain.

She drove for the Fiat team in 1996. She won the ladies’ award on the Monte Carlo Rally in a Cinquecento, co-driven by Arielle Tramont. She was 61st overall, from 99 finishers. The Monte was part of the 2-Litre World Championship that year.

The year before, she had navigated for Ana Barbero in a similar car, but retired. Both Anas had been the highest-finishing female driver in the Spanish Cinquecento Trophy the season previously. Fiat offered prize drivers to the overall champion, leading Under 23 or rookie driver and leading female driver, from each territory in which the series ran. 

Between 1998 and 2001, she rallied occasionally in Spain, normally with a SEAT Ibiza. Normally, she stuck to the Asturias region and asphalt. Her career-best result came in 1999, when she was fourth in the Rallye de los Oscos. There were 30 finishers and she was just under two minutes behind winner Felix Garcia, in his Ibiza. Arielle Tramont, who had sat beside her for the Monte, was her co-driver.

In 2001, she did some rounds of the Spanish SEAT Ibiza Cup, finishing three times. Her best result was a 30th place in the Rallye de Ourense, with a class sixth. Her final event as a driver in the Rally Rias Baixas Redcom. She and Fatima Macias Yanez were 37th overall.

Later, she became the regular co-driver for Jorge Martinez-Cueto, who had won the Fiat series the year that Ana did it.

In 1998, she co-drove for Miguel Fuster in a Peugeot 106 Maxi, in the Spanish championship, before returning to Martinez-Cueto and Fiat. She competed until 2004 and won one event as a co-driver, the Rallysprint Colmenar de Oreja.

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Sheleagh Aldersmith

Sheleagh before the 1963 Monte

Sheleagh Aldersmith was a British driver and navigator in the 1960s. She competed in the Monte Carlo Rally many times between 1960 and 1970.

The first success she had at the wheel seems to have been a win in the Cowley & Wilson Trophy in 1957, a navigational event with driving tests and a quiz element organised by the Buckingham and District Motor Club. This had followed a second place in their "Spring Sprints" navigational rally. Her car is not recorded.

Some time between then and 1960, she started competing in stage rallies. A 1962 Worthing Herald news article from 1962 has her as "rally driving for the past two years".

Her first international event was in 1960. She teamed up with the multiple French champion, Claudine Trautmann (then Vanson) for the RAC Rally, driving a Citroen ID19. This was despite There was some confusion over whether they had actually started, but they made progress in Scotland until rolled, having stopped to help Claudine's future husband, Rene Trautmann. Sheleagh continued as a driver of the team's chase car. At the time, some said this was her second RAC Rally. 

As co-driver to Rosemary Seers in 1961, she entered an Triumph Herald in the Tulip Rally, held in the Netherlands. They were 73d overall, seventh in class, from 113 finishers.  Rosemary then switched to an MG Midget for the car-destroying Liege-Sofia-Liege Rally, which had eight finishers. The Seers/Aldersmith car was not among them. It had lost its exhaust system on the Resia Pass going into Italy, then gradually lost power until it expired at Sofia. The lack of an exhaust meant the the car's floor pan got very hot, particularly under the co-driver's feet. Both Sheleagh and Rosemary burnt through the soles of their shoes and had to jump out of the car at time controls. To add insult to injury, they received a speeding ticket in Yugoslavia.

They also drove an MG together on the 1961 RAC Rally and the 1962 Monte, although they did not finish either event. The Midget's gearbox broke on the RAC Rally.

In April, she came to the rescue of Irish driver Pat Barr, who found herself without a navigator for the Circuit of Ireland. Sheleagh answered an advert in the motoring press and cancelled another rally in England the help Pat out. They drove a Mini, but finished over the time limit and were not classified.

She did her first international rally as a driver in 1962, taking on the Tulip Rally, driving an Austin Seven wiht David Howick. She seemed equally happy working with male and female team-mates and was aiming for the mixed team award this time. On the way, she took her friend, Mrs Stromwall, as an additional, unofficial navigator; Mrs Stromwall wanted to visit her daughter in Bruges. Sheleagh was 88th overall.

Teaming up with Pat Barr again, but switching seats, she tackled the Tulip Rally again in 1963. This followed an ignominious exit from that year's Monte, when her road car broke down as she tried to get to the airport on her way to Ostend, the radiator bursting on co-driver Jean Aley's driveway. Later, she tried the Spa-Sofia-Liege event again, driving a Mini for the first time. She and co-driver Michael Nesbitt, a racing mechanic who owned the car, did not finish. The Mini's suspension, brakes and clutch were defeated by poor Yugoslavian roads near Titograd, now Podgorica in modern Montenegro.

Another Monte in 1964 began in Minsk, where she spent some time visiting local hospitals to compare conditions with the UK. She used the a Mini from the same garage as the one she shared with Michael Nesbitt, but had Elizabeth Jones as her co-driver this time. They got as far as the Alps without too much trouble, despite snow and bad Czech fuel, but the Mini was ailing and they went over the time limit trying to finish a special stage on an icy road.

Switching seats with Nesbitt again, she entered the Spa-Sofia-Liege again, but it continued to beat the, the car's radiator giving out this time. 

Another navigating job that year was helping Bill West on his first international rally, that year's RAC Rally. His Mini was a production model, as opposed to the Nerus-engined Hares Garage car Sheleagh was used to. They finished, in spite of changeable weather, including blizzards and fog in Scotland and northern England. The car's suspension had problems and the fan belt came off twice.

1965 was a quieter year. Sheleagh and Pat Walton had another go at the Tulip Rally in a Mini, but did not finish. This was a new car for her; she had elected not to enter the Monte to allow time for it to be prepared.

1966 was also relatively quiet. Sheleagh had been down to co-drive for a garage owner, John Barnes, but a bout of sciatica meant she had to drop out. It was also suggested that the Mini they were hoping to use had too many spotlights to be legal as well.

Another co-driving job came in in May, when she sat beside ED Jenkins for the Austrian Alpine Rally in a Mini. Their finishing position is unknown. 

The Mini was her chosen car in 1967 as well: she and Carolyn Tyler entered the Monte Carlo Rally, described as Sheleagh's sixth attempt. The car was hers, and she and Carolyn had tried it out on the Isle of Wight in October 1966, in a local rally. They won the Coupe des Dames. Unfortunately, they were non-finishers in the Monte itself.

She was set to drive in the RAC Rally with Susan Porch, until it was cancelled due to foot and mouth disease. Susan just wanted to get to the finish, in order to be eligible for the 1968 Monte. 

As a navigator, she entered two more rallies in 1967, in two separate Minis. She partnered Australian Lyndon McLeod for the Tulip Rally and Christopher Coburn for the Alpine Rally, although neither team finished.

Her partnership with Christopher Coburn continued for another two seasons, always with her in the navigator's seat. In 1968, they drove a Mini on the Monte, her seventh edition and his first. Their rally ended stuck in a bramble bush, going over the time limit in order to free themselves.

Their final event together was Sheleagh's last international rally. It was the 1969 Monte, driving a Vauxhall Viva. The alternator became faulty shortly after the start and they did not finish.

A hospital doctor and consultant in physical medicine, she was usually referred to as “Dr. S Aldersmith”, and has been described as "formidable". That said, she told the Worthing Herald in 1962 that her parents would not allow her to learn to drive, and she had to wait until she had qualified until she began "eight years ago". She had been practising medicine since at least 1954, when she worked in Nottingham. This was after she contracted polio in 1952, which must have necessitated time off work and sporting activity. She later lived in the south of England, at Rustington. She was sometimes a member of the circuit medical team at Goodwood, Silverstone and Brands Hatch, and the first woman to serve as a medical officer at the British Grand Prix.

As well as motorsport, she took an interest in flying and gliding and was one of the donors towards the 1954 World Championship Appeal Fund.

She died in 2002, aged 78. Her given name appears to have been "Sheila" on her birth certificate, but she used the spelling "Sheleagh" to refer to herself.

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Natasha Tundo

Natasha co-driving for her father, Frank

Natasha Tundo is a Kenyan rally driver whose usual car is a Subaru Impreza. She is from a rallying family; her father Frank and brother Karl are also rally drivers. Her first experience in a rally car was at the age of three, when her father drove her around part of the Safari Rally course in his own car.

She started driving in rallies in 2015, after several years of co-driving, often for Frank. She and Carl won the 2012 Guru Nanak Rally together in 2011, with Carl driving the family Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX.

She and Chantal Young drove a Subaru Impreza STi in the 2015 Kenyan championship, under the team name “Rally Chix”. Natasha’s best finish was 19th, in the Nakuru Rally. She had entered the Safari Rally earlier in the year, but had to retire; this was her only non-finish of the year. She was 32nd in the Kenyan championship, tied with Rob Hellier and George Njoroge. 

In 2016, she did a full season in the Kenyan championship, in the Impreza. Her best result was an eleventh place in the Safari Rally. This was one of four top-twenty finishes she achieved that year.

Another season in the Kenyan series followed in 2017. Her best finish was twelfth, in the Fly540 RSC Rally. She was also fourteenth in the Eldoret Rally. This was her last time in the driver's seat for a while. Her attentions turned to co-driving for her father again, making trips to New Zealand, Bulgaria and the UK, in this case the 2021 Roger Albert Clark historic rally. Their usual car was a Triumph TR7, but they used a Ford Escort RS1800 for the Silver Fern Rally in New Zealand.

Her comeback as a driver was in 2022, when she was second in the 2022 Lioness Rally with Chantal, in the Impreza. This was an all-female event In Kenya, won by Maxine Wahome in a similar car. Chantal had sat beside Maxine in the previous year's Safari.

In 2023, she was eighth in the Safari Rally, her best result in a mixed event. She does not appear to have competed in 2024.

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Marie-Odile Desvignes

Marie-Odile Desvignes was a rally driver and one of the original members of the all-female Team Aseptogyl as well as one of its longest-serving. 

She began her rally career with the team in 1971, alongside her twin sister, Anne-Marie, as a complete novice. Aseptogyl founder Bob Neyret selected the sisters not only due to their experience with Alpine mountain roads, achieved through their jobs in ski resorts, but also because blonde identical twins were a handy media draw. Anne-Marie was only part of the team for a very short time, but Marie-Odile proved herself to be one of Aseptogyl’s most effective members.

For major rallies, she usually acted as a co-driver for Claudine Trautmann, until she retired in 1975, but she was also a decent driver in her own right.

Her first year in the navigator’s seat was spent next to Claudine Trautmann at the wheel of either an Alpine-Renault A110 or for rougher events, a Renault 16. The two Frenchwomen were particularly skilled on very difficult, car-breaker rallies and finished third on that year’s Bandama event, held in the Ivory Coast.

Throughout her career, she was often partnered by Francoise Conconi. Christine Rouff and Brigitte Carrier also sat beside Marie-Odile in 1971 and 1972, in the Chataigne, Bayonne and Rallye de l’Ouest events, plus more on the French calendar. One of Marie-Odile’s biggest events of 1971 was the Criterium des Cevennes, which she entered with Francoise. Marie-Pierre Palayer sat beside Claudine.

She also had a short but successful partnership with Annick Girard, another of the original Aseptogyl team. They were eighth in the Antibes Rally and fifth in the National section of the Alpine Rally. 

Marie-Odile and Francoise were entered into the 1972 Paris-St. Raphael Rally and were third in the National standings. The same year, they won the Coupe des Dames in the Criterium des Cevennes. Marie-Odile did her first Neige et Glace Rally as a driver, having co-driven for Claudine Trautmann the previous year in one of their earliest events together, finishing twelfth. She encountered more snow on the Lyon-Charbonnieres event and seems to have finished, although the result is not forthcoming.

Although she is mainly associated with Aseptogyl, Marie-Odile did drive for other teams and in other cars. She did some French rallies in an Alfa Romeo 2000 and finished the 1973 Rally Mistral in 54th place. She also sampled a Porsche 911 for the 1973 Tour de France, assisted by Brigitte Carrier.

In her Aseptogyl Alpine, she entered the Ronde Giraglia in Italy.

1973 to 1975 were mostly spent in the navigator’s seat. As Claudine Trautmann wound down her career, Marie-Odile shared co-driving duties for Christine Dacremont with Francoise. She usually took on the rougher events, as before. She and Claudine were fourth overall in the 1974 World Cup Rally, which took a very circuitous route via the Sahara desert between London and Munich. Only 19 out of 70 cars finished, and Claudine’s Peugeot 504 was the second of three Aseptogyl entries. Co-driving in a non-Aseptogyl 1800 Alpine-Renault, she helped Michel Alibelli to a win in the 1974 Bayonne-Cote Basque Rally.

After 1975, she seems to take a step back from motorsport. One of her latest events seems to have been the 1975 Rallye Côte-Côte, driving a Peugeot 504 with Yveline Vanoni. A reference on the French “Forum Auto” is made to a serious accident on the Rallye Antibes, which may have something to do with it.

She was part of a later iteration of the Aseptogyl team in 1976, driving an Autobianchi A112. She entered the Monte Carlo Rally with Jacqueline Perrin on the maps, although they did not finish. 

Much later, in the 2010s, she came out of retirement to do some historic rallies in an Alpine A110. 

She died in October 2023.

(Image from the “Team Aseptogyl” Facebook page)

Fabrizia Pons

Fabrizia Pons is Italian, and is best known as Michele Mouton’s navigator during the most successful part of her career, sitting beside her for all four of her rally wins. She is also a driver in her own right.

Even before she started rallying, she competed in motocross between 1971 and 1975, in Italy, starting off in the junior categories. She combined a motocross racing schedule with studying to be an architect. It was only a major accident that made her re-evaluate where she wanted to be in motorsport, and switch to rallying n 1976.

Her first rally car was a Group 1 Autobianchi A112, which she used in Italian events, including the Rally Ciocco, in which she was 19th. Her navigator was Gabriella Zappia. The pair also drove an Alfasud in the Sanremo Rally, finishing 29^th overall. Among her rivals for the Coupe des Dames was Michele Mouton, in an Alpine-Renault, who went out with a broken radiator.

Fabrizia and Gabriella won the Italian ladies’ championship that year, which was no mean feat for a crew in their first year of competition.

For 1977, she changed to driving an Opel Kadett, still in Group 1. She and Anna Gatti took part in that year’s Sanremo Rally, but did not finish. They were more successful in Italian rallies, and defended her ladies’ title.

1978 was her best year in that car; her third attempt at Sanremo gave her a ninth place, making her one of two people to have scored world championship points in the same event as both driver and co-driver.

The Kadett was run by Conrero Squadra Corse, and Fabrizia earned herself another strong finish on the Targa Florio Rally, finishing fourteenth overall. They were behind sixth-placed Anna Cambiaghi, in a Lancia Stratos, but had accrued enough points for Fabrizia to take a third Italian ladies’ title.

This was her final full year as a driver. At the start of the 1979 season, she swapped seats and launched her career as a co-driver. She had done two Monte Carlo Rallies as a navigator, but she was now in the role full-time. By the end of the year, her navigation and organisational skills had helped Lucky Battistolli to two outright wins, in Austria and Germany.

When Michele Mouton was signed by Audi for the 1981 season, she was on the lookout for a new co-driver, having parted ways with Françoise Conconi, who had been her regular navigator for some years, and not quite clicking with Annie Arrii, her replacement. Fabrizia joined her for the Rally of Portugal, and began a five-year partnership that included four WRC wins, the FIA Ladies’ Trophy and the 1982 Halda Trophy for the best navigator.

After a disappointing season in the 1985 British championship, Fabrizia retired from full-time competition to have a family. Before her sabbatical, she had one more go at the steering wheel herself, driving an Audi Quattro in the Lady Rally dei Castelli Malatestiani, held on the island of Rimini in 1985. She was the winner, from Paola de Martini in a Ferrari.

Her career got going again in 1995, when she teamed up with Ari Vatanen at Ford, and she was back to winning ways in 1997, assisting Subaru driver Piero Liatti to victories in Monte Carlo and Portugal.

In 2008, she and Michele did the Rally of Otago together in a Ford Escort, finishing 35^th. Prior to that, she was Jutta Kleinschmidt’s regular rally-raid navigator at Volkswagen, having done the same for Ari Vatanen.

In recent years, she has paired up again with Lucky Battistolli in the Italian Historic Championship, normally in a Lancia.

She is a member of the FIA’s committee on women in motorsport, and is also sought after by representatives from other sports for her organisational expertise. Teams and events she has supported include the New Zealand Olympic squad, and the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. She now runs her own school for rally co-drivers.

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Edith Weiss

Edith Weiss in Qatar in 1997

Edith is a German driver who is based in the Middle East. She is from Bavaria, and was born in 1964.

She had a slightly unusual start to her motorsport career, beginning as a team manager in German rallying, in 1985. She began competing, as a navigator, in Germany, a year later, with Rainer Scherer. They were disqualified from the one event they did together. In 1987, she returned to team management for Peugeot, and concentrated her competitive efforts on the track, in a Peugeot 205 GTi. She drove in touring car events in Germany and Czechoslovakia.

In 1990, she combined all three strands of her motorsport career, racing the 205 in endurance events, including the Nürburgring 24 Hours, organising the Peugeot Cup and navigating for Eberhart Frech and Gerhard Merz, in another 205 and a Fiat Uno.

Edith’s navigation activities in 1991 began with sitting alongside Oliver Stollner in a Golf, for the Horber Rally in 1991. Later, she did the same for Gerhard Merz in an Opel Kadett, in the Rallye de Wallonie. However, most of this year was taken up by hillclimbs, using a Peugeot 205 GTi, and circuit racing, using the Peugeot and other cars, including a BMW and a Suzuki Swift. She drove in that year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours in the Peugeot, but did not finish.

Her first Middle Eastern rally was as a co-driver to Mohammed Kaplan, in the Qatar Rally. The car was a Toyota Celica and they were third in class. However, at this point, Edith’s focus was still on circuit racing, in a Citroen AX this year, and she managed to finish the Nürburgring 24 Hours with Dieter Steinlein and Andreas Schultes.

1993 saw her move more fully into rallying, but still as a co-driver, navigating for Gerhard Merz, Carsten Wiegand and Mathias Schütt. Only Mathias Schütt, in a Toyota Corolla, managed to finish. 1994 continued in the same vein, with trips to France and Hungary as well as Germany, alongside Carsten Wiegand, Gerhard Merz and Detlef Knöppler. This gave her a mix of decent finishes and early exits due to technical issues. A highlight was her first WRC event: the Monte Carlo Rally, alongside Monika Petzold, in a Renault Clio. They crashed out. 1995 was yet more of the same, although she sat with some new drivers and did two WRC events with Stefan Reininger, in a Clio.

After another year of navigation, Edith switched seats and moved to the Middle East in 1997. Her first rally car, as a driver, was a Nissan Sunny GTi-R. Co-driven by Vren Heierli, she entered the UAE and Jordan international rallies, retiring from both with gearbox and driveshaft problems. In the Qatar Rally, she managed her first finish, with David Twiggs on the maps. They were tenth overall, third in class. A late-season run in the Dubai Rally ended on stage three with a puncture.

She aimed to continue her MERC activities in 1998, but after entering the Oman Rally, the Sunny was lost in transit, re-appearing some months later in Abu Dhabi. After this disaster, she sat 1999 out from a competition perspective, concentrating on driving instruction and VIP events. For part of the year, she moved to Daytona. She returned to competition in 2000, with one outing in the WRC Rally of Cyprus. She did not finish.

She returned to Cyprus in the Sunny in 2001, but still could not finish, going out close to the end this time. Two of her three MERC rallies also ended in retirement: Lebanon and Syria, with an overheated engine and another bad driveshaft respectively. She could not start the Dubai Rally, due to her co-driver Jacqui Healing not having the correct license.

Her 2002 programme moved away from the Middle East, with entries in Rally Argentina and the Safari Rally. She was 22nd in the Argentine mountains in a SEAT Ibiza, winning her class and the ladies’ award. Using a Subaru Impreza, she did not finish the Safari event.

The following year, she was back to MERC rallies. She did not finish the Rally of Lebanon in a Peugeot 306.

2004 was one of Edith’s busiest years for rallying. She had acquired a Skoda Octavia, running to Formula Two specification. Her first event was meant to be the Rally of Cyprus, but administrative gremlins struck again, and her car did not reach the island in time, due to a ferry workers’ strike. The following month, she went out of the Rally of Turkey with a broken steering rack, then a dispute over whether her roll cage was FIA-approved prevented her from starting the Rally of Japan. She did not have any better luck in the MERC, retiring from the Lebanon and Dubai rallies with hydraulics and starter motor problems respectively. Even a one-off co-driving effort with Wael Murjan in the UAE led to a clutch failure.

2005 contained more of the same. Edith entered seven MERC events and finished one, the Dubai Rally, in which she was tenth. Her car was a Group N Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII. To be fair, the Rally of Lebanon was cancelled, and she was prevented from taking her Lancer into Qatar through Saudi Arabia, but she still retired from the Troodos, Bahrain and Oman events, with mechanical problems. Both the Lancer and the Octavia were causing problems. The WRC-counting Cyprus Rally once more gave her a better result: first in class, and first lady driver, 39th overall. Her car was a Peugeot 306.

Homologation issues reared their ugly head again in 2006, with the Octavia and its roll cage once more. This time, Edith was disqualified from the Rally of Cyprus. The engine on the Octavia could not be replaced in time for the Oman Rally, but she managed twelfth place in the Jordan Rally, in the Lancer again. The following year, the issue with the roll cage had still not been resolved, and she was disqualified from the Rally of Lebanon. Previously, the electrics on the Octavia had given up in Cyprus. This was the last year that Edith used it.

Away from the Skoda, Edith headed back to Europe for the Rally of Italy, on Sardinia. She was driving a Renault Clio, and managed third in class, 60th overall. In the Lancer, she was fifteenth in the Dubai Rally, again the first female finisher. Her other planned MERC round, the UAE Rally, was cancelled, but she entered the Ajman Rally in the UAE itself late in the season, in the Lancer, and was eighth.

Two rather troubled seasons followed, from a rally perspective. After renting a Lancer Evo VII for the 2008 Rally of Turkey, Edith was unable to start the event proper, despite finishing the recce. Her second outing, the Dubai Rally, ended in a similar manner, after a fuel leak was not fixed in time. The following year, 2009, she entered the Elpa Rally in Greece, in a Lancer Evo VII, but did not finish. Apart from these events, she took a break from stage rallying for much of this time.

During her break, she did some rally raids in a Porsche Cayenne in 2009, including the Silk Way Rally, before returning to the stages in 2010, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 and Skoda Fabia. She drove in Portugal and Germany. In a Group N Lancer, she finished 24th in the Rally of Portugal. Her German outing, in the Fabia, was running as the 00 course car for the Rally of Germany.

During this time, she also started working as a commissar for the FIA, which is slightly ironic, given her chequered history with scrutineers and technical adjudicators.

In 2011, she stepped up her rallying activities once more. In the Acropolis, she limped to the finish in 33rd, after problems with the ECU and suspension. Her two MERC events, Dubai and Qatar, ended in retirement. Her car for all of these rallies was an Evo VIII. She also competed in some rounds of the Qatar rally championship, finishing the fourth round in eighth. She mostly drove the Evo VIII, but once tried a Subaru Impreza.

In 2012, she continued to be very busy, driving in six rounds of the Qatar Rally Championship, using an Impreza and two Lancers. She scored four top-ten finishes, with a best of third in Round Six, and was fifth in the championship. She was also 23rd in the Rally of Lebanon, and retired from the Dubai Rally, using the Evo VIII both times. In a Subaru Impreza WRX, she was ninth in the Qatar Rally.

Despite coming towards the end of her 40s, Edith continued to drive in the Qatar Rally Championship in 2013. She was second in the first round, driving an Impreza. The second and third rounds gave her two sixth places, although she only just managed to finish one, due to a broken rear axle. In between, she drove in the Qatar Rally itself, a round of the MERC, and was fourteenth, sixth in class. 

A switch to a Lancer Evo IX did not happen. Instead, Edith acquired a Nissan Patrol, and moved into rally raids again. Her biggest event was the Sealine Cross-Country Rally, in Qatar, in which she was eleventh. She later drove in five rounds of the Qatar Baja Championship, finishing fifth or sixth in each of them. 

She carried on rallying in the Qatar championship in 2014, in a Lancer Evo IX. She was third in the second round, and twelfth in the Rally of Qatar itself, which led to fourth place in the Qatar series. She also featured in the MERC again, with Vicky Psaraki as co-driver. Her best finishes were two fifteenth places, in Kuwait and Dubai. She was also 17th in Lebanon, and 25th in Cyprus. She was third in the MERC Group N standings. This was all despite her usual round of administrative troubles, including her car being sent to the wrong workshop before the Dubai Rally.

During 2014, she considered retiring, and announced that her visits to Cyprus and Lebanon would be her last, but she appears to have reconsidered this. She entered the MERC again, in the Lancer, starting with the Qatar Rally, in which she was eighth. She was eighth again in Kuwait, but was then excluded from the Shiraz Rally in Iran, due to a non-compliant seat belt in the car. A return to Cyprus was mediocre, and she was 33rd, before non-finishing in Oman and managing thirteenth in Dubai. She was tenth in the Middle East championship, and second in Group N. In between, she also contested the Qatar national rally series again, with a best finish of second. 

She did some more MERC rallies in the Lancer in 2016, although history repeated itself when the car got stuck at a Saudi border control before the Qatar International Rally. She got to the start of the Dubai Rally, but did not finish, despite finishing eighth on the first day.

Her retirement was put off for another year in 2017, as she did another part-season in the driving seat. She was 41st in the Cyprus Rally, driving a Lancer, then entered the Rally of Portugal in a Peugeot 208. She retired after the first stage.

In future, Edith has stated a wish to develop her work with the FIA further.

(Picture from http://www.motoringme.com/all-girl-teams-at-this-weekends-qatar-rally/)