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Aseel Al-Hamad: I never even imagined it in my dreams
< ► > Aseel Al-Hamad drove a Renault Formula 1 car around the French Grand Prix circuit in front of thousands of fans on Sunday and declared that the opportunity marked the start of a new era for Saudi women in motorsport. The lap of Le Castellet’s Paul Ricard track, in a race-winning 2012 Lotus Renault E20, came on the day a ban ended on female drivers getting behind the wheel on the Gulf kingdom’s roads. “I believe today is not just celebrating the new era of women starting to drive, it’s also the birth of women in motorsport in Saudi Arabia,” she told Reuters. “The most important thing I am looking forward to is to start seeing the next generation, young girls,...
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