[1] Stanley-Turner did not take up feminine hobbies and raced cars at the amateur level from a young age and was taught to drive by her father and woman competition driver Joan Chetwynd.
[1] In 1937, Stanley-Turner competed in her first major race, the First Easter Mountain Handicap, at Brooklands in a J-type MG Midget car,[1] and retired from the Rallye Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin.
[3][4] Stanley-Turner, who was reported by the press to have competed at Le Mans with an injury she kept hidden from doctors so that she could race,[5] was also second in the Biennial Cup event at the Donington Park road course.
[13] On 3 August 1940, she was enlisted into the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an Aircraftwoman 1st Class and was appointed an Assistant Section Officer,[14] serving in a barrage balloon unit.
[16] Following the Second World War, Stanley-Turner was restricted to competing in the Coupe des Dames of the Monte Carlo Rally three times in the early 1950s,[17] since it was hard for many drivers to return to motorsport and cars were difficult to acquire and those that were available were expensive.
[19] A circa 1938 gelatin silver print photograph taken by an unknown individual of Stanley-Turner sitting in a racing car was given to the National Portrait Gallery, London by Terence Pepper in 2014.