Aurora Straus
Breaking the mould
If anyone breaks the mould, it’s Aurora Straus, the only professional female sportscar racer in North America. She even took a year off her sophomore at Harvard in 2018 in order to compete in the Pirelli World Challenge series. Not content at pushing limits and stereotypes in fast cars, she spends the rest of her time being a virituoso musician, an ardent campaigner and role model, with even bigger dreams for the future.
‘What I’ve slowly fallen in love with is my place in the motorsport's world as a woman. That’s not to say I’m treated any differently out on the track, but I think I’m in a unique position in the sense that I can reach out to an entire generation of young girls.’
Aurora has been a partner of the watch brand since 2018, proudly wearing an RM 07-04 Automatic Sport.
A passion
A passion
For motorsports
Not content to push limits and stereotypes in fast cars, she spends her ‘free’ time as virtuoso musician, an ardent campaigner for girls and a precocious role model, with even bigger dreams for the future. Aurora drove for the first time aged 13, with no prior experience. Her passion for motorsport grew quickly, and she began wheel-to-wheel racing at the tender age of 15.
Since 2017, Aurora Straus has progressed from being the top rookie in the Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge to competing internationally in GT4 and Radical Cup championships.
‘By wearing a Richard Mille watch, I know that whatever I do to it, it’ll be ok. It’s taken part in every one of my races, and is on my wrist every time I’m training, but so far, it hasn’t even been slightly compromised.’
Philanthropy
She started her own non-profit association ‘Girls with Drive’ to help foster awareness and excitement about male-dominated career paths among young girls. The more she can invest her time, money and energy into creating programs that will help young women want to get involved with those career paths, the better.
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