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AUSTRALIAN GIRL WINS ENGLISH CLASSIC
Joan Richmond’s Unique Success
AUSTRALIA’S greatest success in classic motor racing for years past was secured during the weekend by Joan Richmond, a Melbourne girl.
WITH Mrs. Wisdom, an English driver, she won the 1000 miles race at Brooklands—most important of the British long distance races. It was the first time women had won the race, which is a two-day handicap event.
The winners used a Riley: averaged 84.4 m.p.h. and in a vicious skid at a spot where one of the drivers fatally crashed, had a perilously close escape.
Referee, 1932
Clyde cleared his throat. “Mr. Martinelli, I’d very much like to ask for your daughter’s hand—”
“No, no, no… No hand, no finger, no toes!” Rosalina Martinelli’s father poked the man who would be her husband in
