this brings back memories of seeing janet guthrie driving her pink XK150
jag.
chuck.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Hill <jrhill@chorus.net>
To: Vintage Race <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Powder Puff Racing
>It was written:
>
>> I agree with you that we shouldn't go back to the days of
>> female segregation in racing . . .
>
>Gee, one Powder Puff Derby and the long knives come out?
>
>I remember the "Ladies' Races" well -- and they may have originated in part
>because the men didn't want to race against women. But I suspect that a
more
>important reason was that they gave wives/girlfriends a chance to race the
>same car that their significant others were running in the "regular" races.
>
>There was a time when not everyone showed up at the track with a
>semi-trailer full of race cars . . . :-)
>
>Seems to me that if there were a real objection to re-creating a women's
>race that it'd come from the women themselves.
>
>Jim Hill
>Ducking for cover
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