First woman driver indy 500

Janet Guthrie. Passed Indianapolis driver’s test: . Career Indianapolis starts: 3 () Best career Indianapolis start: 14th in Best career Indianapolis finish: 9th in Indianapolis career earnings: $58, First woman to start in Indianapolis  · Simona de Silvestro has been announced as the driver for an Indy only team aimed at recruiting women to the sport. IndyCar, like every motorsport series with Author: Hazel Southwell. Katherine Legge. Born 07/12/ British. 2 Wins in 12 Hours of Sebring. - First woman to race in NASCAR Cup series. - Daytona Top Rookie. Woman with highest finish in NASCAR Cup = 6th. (Danica later tied that record.) - First woman to race in Indy

Beth Paretta and Simona de Silvestro and their crew are the first female owner, female driver and female-led team to compete together at the Indianapolis Janet Guthrie made her way into the sports history books in after becoming the first female driver to qualify for and compete in the Indianapolis , and her road to achieve this feat was not easy. This is a list of female motor racing drivers who have entered an Indianapolis race. Ten.

By the following year she was the first female 'works' driver competing. in the Indy Japan , she became the first woman to win an IndyCar race. 25 de mai. de But it's not the current representation of women in IndyCar that worries her, it's the future. Between and , four women made their Indy. 8 de fev. de It was in that Janet Guthrie broke the gender barrier and became the first woman in 66 years to race in the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”.