Mack and Zara Rutherford, who have flown solo across the globe, broke further records when they accepted a prize that has previously been awarded to Richard Branson and Lewis Hamilton. The British-Belgian team is the youngest recipient of the Royal Automobile Club's Segrave Trophy, which has been given out since 1930 and has been won by a long list of notable figures in motorsport and aviation. When Mack left the Bulgarian capital of Sofia last year to become, at 17, the youngest person to fly alone around the world, he had just turned 16 years old. At 15, Mack had become the world's youngest qualified pilot. Zara had already become at 19 the youngest female pilot to complete the 32,000 mile journey across 51 countries in a Shark microlight aircraft that can run on regular fuel from any gas station. Her trip took five months due to bad weather causing delays in Russia and Alaska. Only four women have previously won the Segrave trophy - awarded to British adventurers who show outstanding skill, courage and initiative in travel on land, sea or air - and none as young as Zara. "A massive high for me was being able to fly straight over Central Park at a 1,000 feet in New York, that was really cool," Zara, who is studying electrical engineering at Stanford University, told Reuters television. She flew also over an active volcano in Iceland, with the lava spewing out, through tropical thunderstorms near Singapore and the severe cold of Siberia. Mack, who beat the record set by 18-year-old Briton Travis Ludlow in 2021, had to land on an uninhabited island after crossing the Pacific Ocean on a trip whose itinerary had to be changed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine