Janet Guthrie, the first female driver to qualify for and compete in the Indianapolis 500, suffered several setbacks and injuries during her racing career.

The 81-year-old, who is the subject of a new “30-for-30” documentary on ESPN called Qualified, revealed to uSports exclusively what driving race-cars in the late 1970s was like as a woman.

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