Donna Mae Mims (July 1, 1927 – October 6, 2009) was an American race car driver.

She was the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) national championship.

She finished second to Frank Nagle of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, in the Lions Club Trophy race at the Cumberland Municipal Airport in 1963.

[3] In 1963, Mims won the Sports Car Club of America national racing championship driving a pink Austin-Healey 1959 Bugeye Sprite that once had belonged to Dr. Jonas Salk.

[1] She won the 1963 Class H championship after competing in ten sanctioned races in her Austin Healey Sprite.

[4] In the twenty-year history of the Sports Car Club of America to that point, Mims was the first woman to win a national racing championship.

For it's a double life Donna Mae leads, and when she isn't sitting at a secretary's desk she's pursuing her career as 'the pink lady of racing.

In November 1972, Mims participated in the third running of the official Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash,[6] an illegal road race better known as the "Cannonball Run" from the East Coast of the United States to the Pacific Ocean in Southern California.

Mims was part of an all-female team in the Cannonball Run with teammates Judy Stropus and Peggy Niemcek.

The women were sponsored by "The Right Bra", drove a 1968 Cadillac limousine, and wore tight-fitting shirts and pants and no bras.

[7] Mims was portrayed by actress Adrienne Barbeau in the 1981 film about the race, The Cannonball Run.