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Book SynopsisOn the Fourth of July weekend in 1924, Marion Martins flies past some of the best race car drivers of her time and takes home two trophies from the famous North Shore Race Track in Chicago. In 1926, on the beaches of Daytona, Florida, Joan LaCosta breaks the world speed record at 145 mph. But Martins and LaCosta never face one another on the close-knit circuit of early American auto racing. That's because they are just two of the identities adopted by the elusive woman born Marion Carver. By the end of the 1920s, this enigmatic woman became a household name in auto racingseveral household names in factthough she'd be best known as Joan LaCosta.
Adopting and discarding personas almost as often as she changes tires, LaCosta defies death, shuns social norms, and keeps her competition in the rearview mirror. While driving as fast as she can away from a complicated past, she survives violent wrecks, race collisions, and onboard fires along the way, protected only by flimsy r
