Janet Guthrie

“The woman I thought was going to be the first to win an Indycar race was Sarah Fisher.”

Ladies and gentleman, start your arguments.

Call him the old-school Donald Trump: Elwood native Wendell Willkie won the GOP presidential nomination in 1940 by emphasizing his business cred as a CEO. Merrie Melodies used Willkie as a punchline a few years later, when Bugs Bunny said, “IT AIN’T VENDELL VILLKIE!”