in the main (150 km) Women's Championship race (both races run on a handicap basis) at the all-female Journée Féminine at Autodrome de Montlhéry. In December of the same year and at the same venue she recorded a speed of 196.871 km/h over 5 km (with a best lap at 197.7 km/h (123.56 mph)) in a 2-litre supercharged Bugatti, which has been supposed by some to have been (unofficially) a world record speed for women; however, Mme Janine Jennky had achieved a speed of 199.059 km/h over the flying kilometre in a 2-litre Bugatti at the Arpajon Speed Trials almost a year-and-a-half earlier, on 26 August 1928. Nevertheless, capitalising on her fame, in 1930 Hellé Nice toured the United States, racing at a variety of tracks in an American-made Miller racing car. Philippe de Rothschild introduced himself to her shortly after her return from America. For a time, the two shared a bed and the love of automobile racing. Rothschild had been racing his Bugatti and he introduced her to Ettore Bugatti. The owner of the very successful car company thought Nice would be an ideal person to add to the male drivers of his line of racing vehicles. She achieved her goal and in 1931 and drove a Bugatti Type 35C in a number of minor Grands Prix in France and in the non-championship Monza Grand Prix. Hellé Nice was easily recognizable in her bright-blue race car. She wowed the crowds whenever she raced while adding to her income with a string of product endorsements, including advertising for Esso and Lucky Strike, which saw her featured on thousands of posters, helping her to become one of the most famous people in France. She also earned significant amounts from racing, receiving entry fees worth the equivalent of $100,000 per race when inflation-adjusted to the 2018 value of the dollar. Although she never competed in a major Grande Epreuve and never won a Grand Prix race, she was a regular participant, and occasionally finished ahead of some of her male rivals. Over the next several years, as one of the small number of female drivers appearing on the Grand Prix circuit, Nice continued to race Bugattis and Alfa Romeos against the greatest drivers of the day. She competed not only in minor Grand Prix races but also hillclimbs and rallies all over Europe, winning the 1932 Rallye Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin,