Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend
Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend
Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend
Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend

Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend

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Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack, writes Londons Literary Review, Miranda Seymours biography of the daring female driver Hell Nice will have you riveted to your seat. Indeed, the story of this recordshattering womanknown as Hellish Nice to her fans and Hell on Ice to her rivalsprovides a fascinating and unexpected view of Europe and America in the years between the wars.Transcending her provincial background, and taking the name Hell Nice, Hlne Delangle made her way into the Parisian demimonde of the 1920s as a nude model, ballerina, and cabaret dancer. But it was on the racetrack, thrilled by the combination of machinery and speed, that Nice would realize her destiny, becoming the fastest woman in the world.Catching the attention of the formidable Ettore Bugatti, designer of the worlds most desirable cars, Nice gained admission to the exclusive male club of drivers. Her readiness to pose for the camera with seductively halfclosed eyes and a radiant smile, coupled with her willingness to risk her life for a record or a win, made Hell Nice an irresistible commodity for Bugattis marque. Impenitently promiscuous, her many lovers ranged from engineers and mechanics to aristocrats of the racing world such as Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Count Bruno dHarcourt.A racer of thrilling audacity, Hell Nice competed in numerous Grand Prix, was the only woman to drive the treacherous American dirt tracks and speedbowls in the 1930s, and set new landspeed records until a notorious accident in Brazil nearly ended her racing career. Her comeback impeded by the war, she lived out the Occupation in the South of France. In 1949, she was mysteriously denounced by a hostile fellow driver as a Gestapo agent. Eventually, Hell Nice would die in obscurity, the shadow on her reputation causing her name to be written out of racing history.Drawn from a remarkable cache of newly discovered papers, Miranda Seymours Bugatti Queen sheds new light on both the treacherous world of international racing and life in Occupied France, while revealing the story of a fearless and passionate woman who lived for challenge.

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