ok, according to this blogger

http://boscotheblog.blogspot.com/200...s-it-take.html

Had it not been for a mechanical issue another female may have beat Arlene Hiss to the gun by like 14 years...who is he talking about?

Women were running the USAC road racing series nearly two decades earlier, and if not for mechanical trouble a woman would have made the first qualifying attempt for the Indy 500 in 1962.