Penny Mallory is an English keynote speaker, and TedX speaker, on Mental Toughness, performance coach and a former British Rally Championship driver. She is a Leading Authority on Mental Toughness. She became the first woman to drive a World Rally Car (WRC)-specification in the otherwise male-dominated FIA World Rally Championship. Penny has been a boxer, mountaineer, marathon runner and triathlete and is training to row the Atlantic Ocean in 2026. She also worked as a precision stunt driver, playing both 'Nicole' and 'Papa', for two Renault Clio commercials. Mallory is also a former television presenter; she co-hosted Channel 4's motoring programme Driven alongside Mike Brewer and Jason Plato, and Accident Black Spot. She also co-hosted with Jason Dawe on the Used Car Roadshow, which was originally broadcast on Men & Motors and later was occasionally repeated on ITV4. She presented Classic Car Club for Discovery with Edd China, Tony Mason and Alex Riley. She also previously co-presented Channel 4's programme on the World Rally Championship (WRC) series, until it was taken over by ITV in 2004.

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