Helle Nice and her championship winning Bugatti. Nice had an unprecedented career, competing in many Grands Prix and becoming the only woman to drive on the treacherous American speedbowls in the 1930s. She set new land-speed records before a notorious accident almost ended her racing career.
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Louis Chiron basically ended Nice’s illustrious racing carrer by blackballing her as a nazi. She died penniless and disowned by her family. This is part of the reason I resent Bugatti’s naming their current hyper-car after him.
Since no-one knows exactly what Chiron accused her of, nor what grounds he might have had for doing so, it's hard to judge whether his accusation had any merit. Miranda Seymour has established that there is no record of HN as a paid-up Gestapo...
Read moreLove the picture! She's amazing. Promoted for Best Of #wod
Thank you!
Pity it isn't Helle Nice though
The picture is not of Helle Nice, but (thanks to friends of the Bugatti Trust) has been identified as an Australian woman, Jean Anderson, whose husband (Bill Thompson)'s car she is sitting on at Gerringong beach race, NSW, Australia, May 10, 1930.