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Byline: LARRY EDSALL
Since she stopped teaching piano and became a professional racer, cars have been competitive tools and other drivers her fierce rivals. Like the handful of women who have driven their way to success in a testosterone-dominated sport, the rivalry Lyn St. James has faced has been more than just man against man, or even man against woman. Often, it has been men against woman.
As a result, St. James admits to harnessing an intense competitive spirit in order to drive at places like Le Mans and Indianapolis, and to earn women's closed-course speed records in both stock cars and Indy cars.
What drove St. James to the Copperstate 1000 this year was an invitation to serve as grand marshal for the annual benefit for the Phoenix Art Museum. While St. James bases her driver development program in Indianapolis, she recently moved her residence to Phoenix.
As grand marshal, St. James drove a Lexus SC 430 on the four-day trip that headed northeast out of the Valley of the Sun into Arizona's White Mountains. Participants followed the challenging, sometimes treacherous Coronado Trail (so nasty it used to be known as Arizona Route 666) before crossing the state line into New Mexico.
At the old Route 66 stop in ...