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Desara Muriqi
Desara Muriqi
	Desara Muriqi after the Ecorally San Marino - Città del Vaticano. Rome, 16 October 2011.
Nationality	Albanian
Born	27 May 1985 (age 39); Shkodër, Albania
FIA Alternative Energies Cup career
Current team	Gonow

Desara Muriqi (27 May 1985) is an Albanian rally driver born in Shkodër. She moved to Sansepolcro, Italy in 2002, and in 2011 she took a degree in Foreign languages and literatures at the University of Siena.

In the 2011 FIA Alternative Energies Cup season, with the sixth place obtained in the Ecorally San Marino - Città del Vaticano (together with the Ukrainian co-driver Yulia Lutsyk on Gonow GA200), she reached the best result for a female team in the history of the FIA Alternative Energies Cup.^[1] She was also the first Albanian driver to gain points in an official FIA world championship.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ (in Albanian) Pilotja shqiptare, fituese ndër të parat femra në Kampionatin Botëror Archived 2011-10-24 at the Wayback Machine. Agjencia Kombëtare e Lajmeve NOA, 22-10-2011.
^ (in Albanian) Shqiptarja që “fluturon” në garat automobilistike në San Marino të Italisë Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine. Bota Sot, 23-10-2011.
^ (in Italian) Gonow protagonista all’Eco Rally. Autoruote 4x4, 19-10-2011.
^ (in Italian) Ecorally: il team Imega vicecampione del mondo^{[permanent dead link‍]}. ArezzoNotizie, 17-10-2011.
^ (in Albanian) Desara Muriqi, nje shkodrane kampione bote ne garat me makina. Shkodra Sport, 10-01-2012.