Its weird that once a woman does something for the first time people highlight that the person doing it is a woman. Its a little patronizing imo.

Everyone is equal, but hey heres a WOMAN that did a thing!

I'm happy she achieved this, but the cognitive dissonance from HN is depressing.

That being said, I never knew these records were done with a draft vehicle. It kind of takes the human out of the equations to the point that I don't care if a man or woman set this record.

It seems like the pure record would be whoever has the land speed record in a bike unassisted by a tow and slipstream. I have more respect for whoever did that over some person that needed a mechanical advantage via a draft and a tow.

That would be Todd Reichert going 89.59mph.

http://www.ihpva.org/hpvarecl.htm#nom01