Two months later, back at the Nürburgring, she shared the driving with her husband in the German Grand Prix (that year run as a sports-car race).
On the fifth lap, having just changed places with her, Vincenc was rushing to make up lost time after a tyre change.
He went wide at the Breitscheid corner, hitting a rock and rolling.
Although thrown out of the car, he collapsed and died soon after from a serious head injury.
Junková was devastated — she gave up racing and sold her vehicles, and returned to her first passion of travelling.
Ettore Bugatti himself gave her a new touring car for her journey to Ceylon, and hired her to seek out new business opportunities in Asia.

Eliška eventually found love again, and married Czech writer Ladislav Khás shortly after the Second World War.
But from 1948 to 1964, the Communist authorities, disapproving of the high-flying, bourgeois lifestyle that she had lived, refused to allow her to travel abroad.
Like Hellé Nice, her great female counterpart from France, she was largely forgotten by the motor racing world.

In 1969 she attended the 40th anniversary of the Bugatti Owners' Club in Great Britain.
In 1973, she published her autobiography Má Vzpomínka je Bugatti ("My memory is Bugatti").
She lived well into her nineties, long enough for the iron curtain to fall and for the "Queen of the Steering Wheel" to have her place in automotive racing history be recognised.
In 1989, at the age of 89 she attended a Bugatti reunion in the United States as the guest of honour.
Two months later, back at the Nürburgring, she shared the driving with her husband in the German Grand Prix (that year run as a sports-car race). On the fifth lap, having just changed places with her, Vincenc was rushing to make up lost time after a tyre change. He went wide at the Breitscheid corner, hitting a rock and rolling. Although thrown out of the car, he collapsed and died soon after from a serious head injury. Junková was devastated — she gave up racing and sold her vehicles, and returned to her first passion of travelling. Ettore Bugatti himself gave her a new touring car for her journey to Ceylon, and hired her to seek out new business opportunities in Asia.
Eliška eventually found love again, and married Czech writer Ladislav Khás shortly after the Second World War. But from 1948 to 1964, the Communist authorities, disapproving of the high-flying, bourgeois lifestyle that she had lived, refused to allow her to travel abroad. Like Hellé Nice, her great female counterpart from France, she was largely forgotten by the motor racing world. 
In 1969 she attended the 40th anniversary of the Bugatti Owners' Club in Great Britain. In 1973, she published her autobiography Má Vzpomínka je Bugatti ("My memory is Bugatti"). She lived well into her nineties, long enough for the iron curtain to fall and for the "Queen of the Steering Wheel" to have her place in automotive racing history be recognised. In 1989, at the age of 89 she attended a Bugatti reunion in the United States as the guest of honour.
Eliška Junková