Race Car Driver Janet Guthrie
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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.
This file appears in: Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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…