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Leslie Porterfield holds the Guinness Book of World Record as the Fastest Woman in the World on a Motorcycle, a record she set in 2008 at Bonneville, with a speed of 232.522 mph.

The Fastest Woman in the World on a Motorcycle

Leslie Porterfield holds land speed records in several classes

Photographs by Michael Kirby Smith for TIME

A History of the Land Speed Record

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