Penelope Pitstop Also in the background helping her out of her perils are the minuscule Ant Hill Mob and trusty old classic car Chuggaboom (which is actually based on another team from "Wacky Races"). In the series, Penelope's car is called the "Compact Pussycat". Bearing the numeral 5 on the sides, it is a pink racecar, with front bumpers that look like a pair of red lips with lipstick on them. It has an umbrella on the top and is equipped with an assortment of beauty supplies, making it essentially a beauty parlor on wheels. Penelope Pitstop Penelope Pitstop is a fictional
Pussycat (robot) Pussycat. It won despite its blade having broken off in the fight before, and the team managed to restore it in time for the final. Despite the problems, their form remained unhindered. This was the final series in which David Gribble drove Pussycat before his death in a motorbike accident in 2001. Pussycat, for the second time, won its respective heat and advanced to the Semi-Finals, but lost to Firestorm 3. After David Gribble died at the age of 17 in October 2001 in a motorbike accident between filming for series 5 and 6, the driving was taken over by