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“I’ve learned my lesson. No more wooing rich widows for me! No more crackpot schemes about ostrich racing! I’ll stick to good honest ballooning from now on.”

“Perhaps Bertha is not as excited about ostrich racing as the admiral is,” Penelope replied, tucking him in.

Chadwick, 27, is close to being the first female driver to compete at the top level of sports car racing for several years.

One notable absentee was Austrian star Marcel Hirscher, now racing in the colours of the Netherlands.

Nine people have been injured, with one in critical condition, after a car ploughed into a crowd at a racing event in southeastern Australia, police said.