Formula One F1 - French Grand Prix - Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France - June 24, 2018 Aseel Al-Hamad of Saudia Arabia drives a Lotus Renault E20 Formula One car during a parade before the race REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
LE CASTELLET, France (Reuters) - Aseel Al-Hamad drove a Renault Formula One car around the French Grand Prix circuit in front of thousands of fans on Sunday and declared the start of a new era for Saudi women in motorsport.
The lap of Le Castellet's Paul Ricard track, in a race-winning 2012 Lotus Renault E20, came on the day a ban ended on female drivers getting behind the wheel on the Gulf kingdom's roads.
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