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Saudi woman to drive F1 car ahead of French Grand Prix

Aseel Al-Hamad will make another breakthrough for Saudi Arabian women on Sunday by driving a Formula 1 car ahead of the French Grand Prix at Circuit Paul Ricard. The lap of the Le Castellet circuit comes on the day a ban ended on females getting behind the wheel on the Gulf kingdom’s roads. Renault said Al-Hamad would drive a 2012 car as part of a parade of the French manufacturer’s cars to mark the return of the race after a 10-year absence. The same Lotus Renault E20 car took Finland’s 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen to victory in Abu Dhabi that year. Al-Hamad is already the first female member of the Saudi Arabian Motorsport Federation and on the Women in Motorsport Commission...
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