Video: The First Woman to Qualify for the Indy 500

https://www.youtube.com/embed/d9o9ixLSclU

In 1977, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to qualify for the Indy 500. “As far as I was concerned I wasn't a 'woman driver,'” she told, NPR, “I was just a driver."

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