Juliette Slaughter

Juliette Slaughter (; 18 October 1945 – 14 August 2012) was a British racing driver and press officer. She was a competitor in Formula Ford 1600 cars, saloon car racing and sports car racing from 1970 to 1980, competing in events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Biography Slaughter was born in Northampton on 18 October 1945, the daughter of a professional artist and the vicar Noel Carey Potter. Her father was a racing driver at Brooklands in the 1930s and she was educated a convent. Slaughter became interested in racing when she took part in car rallies. That August, she raced in the BWRDC's Fast Girls Ford Consul Challenge at Brands Hatch.

She took semi-retirement from racing between 1972 and 1975 and focused on her job in the fashion industry as an assistant personnel manager at the Bracknell head office of Dorothy Perkins. She returned to full-time in 1975, competing in the BWRDC Shell Sport Ford Escort Championship. Slaughter finished sixth in that championship in 1976 and set the car class lap record of the Brands Hatch short circuit. The following year, she raced a Renault 5 TS, She was runner-up to Galica in the major BWRDC's Goodwin and ShellSport championships, and was a judge for the P. J. Evans Women Driver of the Year. In 1978, Slaughter became employed by Brands Hatch as a press officer on weekdays after selling flats in Chiswick, West London.

That year saw her reach an agreement to drive a P. J. Evans-entered Leyland TR7 sports car in two national production sports car series and 20 races. Slaughter entered the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans race alongside her male co-drivers Ian Harrower and Tony Birchenough in sharing the 32 Dorset Racing Lola T294S-Ford. The car retired early on the Sunday morning with an engine failure caused by a piston failure, having running as high as fourth at one point. In the following year, after an eight-month spell in retirement, she drove a Triumph Dolomite Sprint production saloon in the ShellSport Derwent Television Saloon Car Championship 2000 series as well as finishing 22nd overall in the Gordon Ramsey-entered Porsche 924 with Win Percy in the 1979 6 Hours of Brands Hatch. Slaughter did not compete in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans. Slaughter achieved one second-place finish and five third-place results as well as coming ninth overall in the No. 33 Bell & Colvill-entered Lola T492-Ford at the 1980 6 Hours of Brands Hatch.

Personal life She married South African-born racing driver Andy Slaughter in July 1972.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Dorset Racing Associates Ian Harrower Brian Joscelyne Lola T294-Ford Gr.6 S 2.0 61