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'''Patsy Quick''' is an English [[Off-roading|off-road]] [[motorcycle]] racer, from [[Heathfield, East Sussex|Heathfield]], [[East Sussex]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4575748.stm Antique shop owner in rally again] Retrieved 25/4/21.</ref> She was the first British woman to compete in the [[Dakar Rally]] in 2003 and became the first British woman to complete it [[2006 Dakar Rally|in 2006]].<ref>[http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/your-questions/tm_headline=ask-charley-boorman-patsy-quick&method=full&objectid=19611564&siteid=50081-name_page.html Sunday Sun interview]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teamdesertrose.com/Team%20Desert%20Rose |title=Team Desert Rose |access-date=26 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716195032/http://www.teamdesertrose.com/Team%20Desert%20Rose |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Dakar Rally participation ==
In her first attempt to finish the Dakar rally, Quick was involved in a life-threatening accident which stopped her from completing the course. She was flown to a military hospital where she had her spleen removed.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3360891.stm BBC News article]</ref> Her husband Clive Dredge was part of the four-person back-up team which accompanied her Dakar attempt.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://teamdesertrose.com/content/view/18/31/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306114306/http://teamdesertrose.com/content/view/18/31 |archive-date=6 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was sponsored by more than a dozen organisations, including [[KTM]] who supplied her bike. She appeared in the documentary TV series ''[[Race to Dakar]]'' (Season 1, Episode 6), in which she suggested her success in 2006 had cost her more than £150,000.

== Other activities ==
Quick owns a motorcycle training club called Desert Rose Racing.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110716195057/http://www.teamdesertrose.com/Team Desert Rose]

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