A Broad Grin and a Handstand
E.S. Turner: ‘the fastest woman in the world’ and the wild early years of motor-racing, 24 June 2004
The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend
by Miranda Seymour.
Simon and Schuster, 301 pp., £15.99, February 2004,0 7432 3146 5 Show More
by Miranda Seymour.
Simon and Schuster, 301 pp., £15.99, February 2004,
“... went down well with the crowd, but it was an insane feat. An errant scarf had already strangled Isadora Duncan in her Amilcar on the Promenade des Anglais at Nice. Then it was back to driving for Bugatti, or Alfa Romeo, or any other firm that showed interest in a driver ready to do handstands on the bonnets of its victorious cars. For her own ... ”