“I just want to be really fast”: See Alba Larsen, the fastest young female racer on the planet, in action

At just 16 years old, the Danish rising star Alba Hurup Larsen is turning heads on the global motorsport scene, not simply for her blistering pace on the track but for the ways in which she’s rewriting what it means to be a teenage girl in one of the world’s most testosterone-soaked arenas. She's one to watch – but blink and you'll miss her.

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Click play below to see the speed-racer teen in action.