Some may think that Ms. Patrick, seen here in a blatant attempt to win more fans by using her sexuality, is the first woman ever to race in the Indy car series, but they are mistaken.
This is actually the first woman ever to race in the Indy car series, and she's also the first woman to have been in a NASCAR race as well:
Her name is Janet Guthrie and she never tried to use her sex appeal to win fans, she just went out and quietly broke the gender barrier in two of the most male dominated areas of sport. I remember her first Indy race, the 1977 edition of the Indy 500. I rooted hard for her to win but in the end she came up short, but in the long run she helped make the world a little better place by showing that women can compete with men in sport and in life in general.
Hillary Clinton owes Janet Guthrie a huge debt because she worked quietly but hard and earned everything she got, she didn't ride the coat tails of her husband all the way to the top. And Ms. Guthrie never thought that she was entitled to win anything because of who she was or who she had been married to, she knew that if she was going to win then she had to follow the rules and win fair and square.
