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Janet Guthrie (born March 7, 1938, in Iowa City, Iowa) is a retired professional race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.
Read More at Wikipedia ›With Danica Patrick in North Carolina racing stock cars, the Indianapolis 500 will go off on Sunday without an American woman in the field for the first time since 1999.
That's just one of the problems facing her former series, but it's not really her problem.Patrick has moved on to NASCAR, and can't worry about what she left behind."I was ready to leave IndyCar. I wanted to be here," she said from Charlotte Motor Speedway, where she'll race in Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600."When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you didn't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't. Indy, I have lots of great memories from there and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone."It makes for a strange situation this weekend regarding Patrick.She's not in Indianapolis for the first t...Get ready for what is expected to be a wild four days of racing at Daytona International Speedway , culminating with Sunday's Daytona 500 .NASCARSprint Cup SeriesDay...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Janet Guthrie can see progress moving at full throttle.The pioneering racer is now watching five women try to duplicate her milestone achievement...
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Auto racing's biggest day of the year is on Sunday, beginning with the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo, followed by the Indianapolis 500 and then the Coca-Cola 600 ...
After winning the May 12 race at Darlington and then last Saturday's all-star event, five-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson enters this weekends's Coca-...
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Danica Patrick is ready to earn her stripes — probably plenty of them — this weekend at the Southern 500.Patrick is back in the Sprint Cup series for the first time ...
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup . Date: Sunday, mile tri-oval. Start time: 1:00 p.m. (et). Laps: 200. Miles: 500. 2011 Winner: Trevor Bayne . Television: FOX. Radio: Motor...
Rookies aren't supposed to win the Daytona 500 , but Trevor Bayne proved that to be wrong last year. So why can't Danica Patrick be the next rookie to accomplish the...
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