OK. Maybe not yet, but as I note in my latest Crazy Woman Driver column, my fellow crazy-like-a-fox women drivers are making inroads in the professional racing world.
My motorsports epistle for the July issue of the trucker magazine Owner Operator (click the blurb at the top right of the cover) looks at how things have changed since Janet Guthrie and Shirley Muldowney fought the first on-track battles for women racers.
And how they haven’t changed as much as you might have expected over the last 30 years. Still, we’re getting there.
The good news is Danica isn’t the only accomplished driver out there
putting on heels after she hangs up her fire suit. There’s Ashley and Jutta
and Liz and Sarah and the list goes on.
The bad news is there’s a lot of work left to do, and sometimes women racers are their own worst enemies, doing silly things that overshadow their talents.
Still, despite residual male resistance and ill-advised off-track activities, women are gaining credibility in the racing world. Read all about it here.
If you want some more racing ramblings in preparation for today’s Firecracker (OK, Coke Zero) 400, you can read my previous CWD columns via the links found in this announcement/archive post.
We now conclude this edition
of our occasional race break. We’ll be back later today with our regular finances/tax
programming.
