After World War II, assorted circumstances conspired to keep her away from Eleanor, although she lived in a cottage on the Roosevelt bestate/b in Hyde Park, where she died in 1968. b..../b Her big break at the top level of the sport came in 1976, when long-time team owner and car builder Rolla bVollstedt/b invited her to test a car for the Indianapolis 500. That year, she also became the first woman to compete in a NASCAR Winston Cup superspeedway stock car race. ...
