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History of Women & Motor RacingMonday 27 May 2002
The first women to compete in motor sport took part around the turn of the nineteenth century. They drove in both long distance endurance and speed tests. So why has the success and acceptance of women in motor sport not been repeated since the second world war?

Kathryn Legge hopes she will one day become a Schumacker or a Coulthard. Helen Bashford who's in Manchester is chair of the British Women Racing Drivers Club and John Bullock is the author of a new book called Fast Women.
John Bullock, Fast Women, Publ: Robson Books; ISBN: 1861054882, £16.95


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