July 31: Louise Smith, NASCAR?s first woman driver, was born on this date in 1916

Everything that Louise Smith meant to NASCAR, beyond being the first woman to compete in the series when it was still a bunch of barnstormers in the 1940s and '50s, can be explained by the photo above. Already an experienced driver -- despite the wishes of her husband -- Smith was running in 1949 �at [...]

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