The automobile world has always been a male-dominated one. So it’s partly refreshing and partly ironic that one of the greatest motoring events on the planet has run like clockwork for years thanks to the leadership of a woman.
Sandra Button had not long graduated from Washington State University in the early ’80s (with what proved to be a highly appropriate degree in business and hospitality administration) before she left her home town of Seattle and journeyed 1000 miles south to Pebble Beach to work in its golf and country club’s ‘special events’ department.
This meant organising everything from prize-giving dinners to dog shows – but the occasion that always excited her
