Race Car Driver Janet Guthrie

ID: 1718 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of Indianapolis Motor Speedway Image Collection from IUPUI University Library. ~ Creator: Indianapolis Motor Speedway ~ Date: 1976

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Janet Guthrie was the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500. Guthrie poses for this portrait while wearing her driving suit in 1976.

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway

By Elena Rippel, Kaelynn Hayes, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology

It took Ray Harroun 6 hours and 42 minutes to win the first Indianapolis 500 on May 30, 1911. Speeding past the checkered flag in his bright yellow Marmon “Wasp,” Harroun had driven the five hundred miles at an average speed of 74.6 mph. Today’s…