Vicki Wood, pioneering and record-breaking race driver, dies at 101

Vicki Wood's racing career is a plum subject for a documentary, because it's the kind of thing that only happens in movies. A flippant comment Woods made to her husband in 1953 turned into a decade of breaking barriers and setting records until 1963, collecting 48 trophies in the process and earning the titles "fastest woman in racing" and "fastest woman on the sand." Then she retired over another comment, this one from another competitor, that was just as unexpected as the initial line. Any documentary will need to be stitched together without its protagonist, sadly, as The New York Times reports Wood died due to a heart issue earlier this month at the age of 101.

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