Historic Drive by Saudi Woman as Driving Ban Lifts

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June 24, 2018

Historic Drive by Saudi Woman as Driving Ban Lifts

Jaguar Driving

Photo: Aseel Al Hamad completes a lap of honor in a Jaguar F-TYPE for the first time in Saudi Arabia to commemorate the country lifting the ban for women driving. June 21, 2018. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photo by Fayiz Melibary/Getty Images for Jaguar. © 2018 Getty Images. Image provided by Jaguar.

Jaguar Driving

Photo: Saudi female racer, Aseel Al Hamad, celebrates the end of the ban on women drivers, and the launch of World Driving Day with a lap of honor in a Jaguar F-TYPE on June 21, 2018, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photo by Fayiz Melibary/Getty Images for Jaguar. © 2018 Getty Images. Image provided by Jaguar.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 24 June 2018: Female racing driver Aseel Al Hamad celebrated the end of the ban on women drivers with a lap of honor in a Jaguar F-TYPE.

Aseel, the first female board member of the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation, had never driven on a track in her home country before.

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