Monte Carlo Rally

... for someone who knows everything about medieval English literature and nothing at all about anything else.

However, I had really good French, and I had perfected my French to the point where I guess I was bilingual, and I lucked out and I got a few weeks work, uh, actually making a film about the Monte Carlo Rally for an American company.

Okay.

Let's-

the dirt is where I really...

If I'd have gone rally racing-

Yeah

...

[laughs] Wasn't much water getting to me on that.

Yeah.

And the family fought for it, and I should've been smarter and either gone to Europe and done rally racing-

Mm-hmm

You may have heard of the AC Cobra.

Austin won the 1926 Monte Carlo Rally in an AC car.

From this point, Mildred became known as the Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce.

Well, Mrs Victor Bruce couldn't just watch Mr Victor Bruce do the Monte Carlo Rally.

This started a motor racing career.

From the Monte Carlo Rally, 8,000 mile endurance tries, the oval circuit, and then in 1927 she set the record for driving the furthest north, about 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

She was then after another record, driving a Bentley for 24 hours.

By 1929, though, cars were out and powerboats were in.