Have you read the “Fable of the Scorpion and the Frog”
“A scorpion asks a frog to carry him over a river. The frog is afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, both would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog then agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature.”
Racer Kay Petre next to a 1924 10.5 litre V-12 Delage (1926, Brookland, Surrell). In this case it’s not just that the car is large, but also that racing star Kay Petre was all of 145 cm tall. She set a female speed record of 134.75 mph, or about 216 kph with that same car.