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2019 Automotive Hall of Fame inductee: Janet Guthrie

(Katie Koenigsknecht)
July 21, 2019 02:50 PM

"From the point of view of the IndyCar folks and the NASCAR folks, we were plotting a revolution. And they were sure they weren’t going to like it."
-- Janet Guthrie


 

I'd like to think of myself as a damn good race driver on the track and as a lady off it," Janet Guthrie told The New York Times in 1978. The previous year, when she turned 39, she made history as the first woman to compete in the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500.

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