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Let’s forget for a moment that Gabrielle Chanel dela Merced was the only female race car driver to compete
(let alone place first runner up) in the full season of the Philippine National Formula championship. Or that she
was among the very few Filipinas to burn serious rubber in the Asian Formula 3 circuit. And that despite her
achievements as a decorated sportswoman of sorts, she isn’t a snob, even entertaining an invitation into reality
television in the form of Pinoy Big Brother back in 2007. We saw so much of Gaby’s womanly charms and
endearing self inside Bahay ni Kuya. We’re lucky to have captured that womanly sex appeal for posterity in her
2007 FHM cover, and remember it right here.

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The fastest
she’s gone is
300 kph
held
in an F3 race
in Indonesia

PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK NICDAO