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She was a pilot and flight instructor, an aerospace engineer, a technical editor, and a public representative for some of the country's major corporations.

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She was a pilot and flight instructor, an aerospace engineer, a technical editor, and a public representative for some of the country's major corporations. She had 13 years of experience on sports car road-racing circuits, building and maintaining her own racecars, before being invited to test a car for Indianapolis.

Janet Guthrie was born in Iowa City, Iowa, on March 7, 1938. Her family moved to Miami, Florida when she was three. She attended Miss Harris' Florida School for Girls for all but one of her elementary through high-school years, and then graduated from the University of Michigan in 1960 with a B.Sc. in Physics. Janet Guthrie joined Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, New York, as a research and development engineer, working on programs that were precursors to Project Apollo. In 1964, she applied for the first Scientist-Astronaut program, and got through the first round of eliminations. She treasures a letter from astronaut Deke Slayton, a memento of that attempt.

Meanwhile, Janet Guthrie had purchased a Jaguar XK 120 coupe, and began competing in gymkhanas, field trials and hill climbs. This led to the purchase of a Jaguar XK 140 for competition in Sports Car Club of America races. Her career in physics slowly yielded to the allure of sports car racing, and by 1972 she was involved in racing on a full-time basis. Along the way, Janet Guthrie posted two class victories in the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Janet Guthrie's big break at the top level of the sport came in 1976, when long-time team owner and car builder Rolla Vollstedt invited her to test a car for the Indianapolis 500. That year, she also became the first woman to compete in a NASCAR Winston Cup supers-speedway stock car race. In 1977, she became the first woman to qualify for and compete in the Indianapolis 500; Janet Guthrie was also first woman and Top Rookie at the Daytona 500 in the same year. She finished ninth in the Indianapolis 500 in 1978.

Janet Guthrie's helmet and driver's suit are in the Smithsonian Institution, and she was one of the first athletes named to the Women's Sports Hall of Fame, and is listed in Who's Who. She does extensive platform and keynote speaking, and among her television credits are James Michener's Sports in America and over a dozen appearances on Good Morning America.

Nearly two decades in the making, Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle is Janet Guthrie's first book, published in May 2005. In Janet Guthrie, she has crafted an autobiography that stands as a testament to perseverance, resilience, and courage. An eloquent account of one athlete's demonstration that, physically, emotionally and mentally, women are as well equipped as men to compete in the utterly demanding and occasionally deadly sport of auto racing, Janet Guthrie provides an enlightening examination of changing attitudes in the 1970s. Always an adventurer, never a follower, forever a pioneer, Janet Guthrie smashed barriers to emerge as a heartfelt voice for females of her generation, an Amelia Earhart for the modern age.

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