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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Rachel Steinberg

Meet Emma Gilmour, McLaren’s first female factory driver who swapped horses for motor sport

McLaren

Emma Gilmour is surely the only person in the world who, upon deciding horse riding was too risky, elected to race cars instead.

It was one fall, off the aptly named Mr Obnoxious, that ultimately led the Kiwi to ditch both her reins and Olympic aspirations as she swapped one paddock for another.

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