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Top of the by Photojournalist Lara Platman
In a world currently celebrating empowerment of the woman, photojournalist Lara Platman wants to remind us that women have been racing and driving fast since the invention of the combustion engine. Fearless women such as Camille de Gast who, in 1903, became the first woman racing driver and before her Bertha Benz the wife of Karl Benz who, in 1888 was the first woman to drive a motor vehicle solo. Englishwoman Dorothy Levitt who broke the women’s speed record in 1906, reaching 91mph in her ninety horsepower six cylinder Napier, or what about Mrs Victor Bruce, the first woman to be prosecuted for speeding and who, in 1928 drove non-stop from John O’Groats to Monte Carlo where she was the first woman to win the Monte Carlo Rally. www.thefrankmagazine.com www.thefrankmagazine.com