The lady BNC driver mystery (UPDATE II: Mlle. Maison Rogée or Hellé Nice ?)
Another race, another win. The lady behind the wheel receives her bouquet of flowers and beams at the well-wishers. Although the photograph is badly damaged (click main pic for larger version), the car with number 76 can still be recognized as a circa 1928 BNC. And thanks to an earlier publication on the excellent website Memoire des Stands (about French automobiles and racing, but only in French), we do know that the circuit is Montlhéry in France. But now we are very curious to know who this smiling lady can be? Do you know? Drop us a mail!
Update II by Glen Robb: “It looks to me like that speedy lady, Hellé Nice.”
Update I by Richard Armstrong who suggests this could be Mlle. Maison Rogée, who -according to Bill Boddy- won the Grand Prix Féminin at Montlhéry in May 1930 in a BNC.
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