The fastest woman on the hill eyes another gear
WHEN permission was sought all those decades ago to race up Le Val des Terres, there were people in power who sought to restrict speeds to what we regard as the normal speed limit.
WHEN permission was sought all those decades ago to race up Le Val des Terres, there were people in power who sought to restrict speeds to what we regard as the normal speed limit.
Quite what those fuddy-duddies of the late-1930s would have thought, to see racing cars haring up the hill at speeds knocking around the 100 mark and occasionally taking chunks out of their previous grass verges, is anyone's guess. But in that very male world of the forties they would have gone apoplectic at the thought of a woman mixing it with the men at those scary speeds.
Last Saturday Sarah Gaudion (pictured) officially became the island's fastest woman on the hill.
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