In Their Own Words: Shirley Muldowney

The most successful woman in drag racing opens up and spills the dirt on some of our favorite photos. It's Shirley, uncensored.People have short memories. About every five years or so, the world of auto racing anoints the sport's next great female pioneer: Janet, Lyn, Angelle, Sarah, Danica. With all due respect to these great and capable racers, baloney. Motorsports already has its greatest and bravest female pioneer, and she has the arrows in her back to prove it. Before any of them, Shirley Muldowney smashed through all the barriers to become the first woman to truly excel as a professional racer. Shirley won three NHRA Top Fuel World Championships, in 1977, 1980, and 1982. The first woman to win an NHRA national event in a pro eliminator (at Columbus in 1976), she collected 18 national event victories in NHRA competition--and several more under IHRA and AHRA sanctions. In 2004 she was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, while NHRA has ranked her number five on its permanent list of the sport's 50 all-time greatest drivers. So if you are looking for credentials, Shirley has those in spades.


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