Grandmother-to-be fulfills need for speed on race track: ‘It’s like a dance’

The Brief

  • Marta Hansen will soon be a grandmother, and she has a love for auto racing.
  • She recently bought a $135,000 race car made by an automaker called Radical.
  • Hansen says she got into race cars because of her son.

TAMPA, Fla. A Bay Area driver is burning up the track in a new kind of race car. It’s fast and full of new technology – and the person behind the wheel is about to become a grandmother.

Marta Hansen, an architect, was among the first members of The Motor Enclave community in Tampa to purchase a $135,000 car that’s like a giant go-kart.

It’s so fast and agile that its maker named the brand Radical.

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