Speed Racer

By Katy Kelleher | April 6, 2010 | 6:10pm

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[New York; April 6, 1978. Image via AP.]

This April 6, 1978 file photo shows Janet Guthrie posing with a toy race car at a news conference in New York. Thirty-one years after Janet Guthrie became the first woman to race in the world’s biggest open-wheel event, three women entered in the Indy race.

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