Janet Guthrie Biography

Janet Guthrie 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 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.

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