Ivy Cummings (1901–1971) was an early racing car driver, reputedly the youngest person ever to lap Brooklands.

[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] During World War I, Cummings worked in a convalescent home for injured soldiers, and would take them out for trips in her own car.

In August 1926, she entered the Grand Prix de Boulogne driving a Bugatti but crashed the car during the race, rolling it.

[14][8][20][21][22] In 1928, fellow racing driver Winifred Pink wrote that she considered Cummings to be one of the few women in complete control of a car at 80 miles per hour, alongside Mrs Scott and Ruth Urquhart Dykes.

[21] Cummings married Stanley Hughes Simpson, a motor engineer, on 25 June 1925 in Holy Trinity, Brompton.

[25] Her brother Sydney earned his pilot's licence at Brooklands[26] and was killed flying with the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1940.