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Re: [Other] Danica Patrick

Actually has gotten a good amount of attention the last 2 years as he has finally come close to be the driver they thought he was years ago and got a good bit of attention when he started. There have been several stories on Bowyer this year alone.

And there have been a LOT of drivers in NASCAR and many got a lot of attention before they started doing anything. Some were lucky enough to have a few years of experience and get into great teams immediately.
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said by CylonRed
And there have been a LOT of drivers in NASCAR and many got a lot of attention before they started doing anything. Some were lucky enough to have a few years of experience and get into great teams immediately.
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How many people outside of NACAR even know who Bowyer is let alone the general public. Now how about in comparison Patrick?

And have any of them come even remotely close to the publicity and praise that Patrick has during those periods you mentioned?

A person wins the pole position at Daytona, (someone does every year) and it gets more attention as a story than the actual winner of the race got in terms of news coverage.

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For this weekend's major NASCAR race at Fontana Danica qualified 40th in the 43 car field, nearly 8 MPH off the pole. This is also a track she is quite familiar with having raced open wheel cars on it too.

Except for a genuinely bright moment at Daytona in winning the pole she seems to have started at bottom and is in many ways working her way down.

Good luck in improving this week and the weeks to come Danica.

»www.latimes.com/sports/motorraci···18.story

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Well, she didn't crash and she was only lapped once this week.

OK, I need to give her some slack. I've made my point about what I perceive as her special treatment and mediocre talent and that she is a celebrity as a sporting marketing sex symbol and not because of her accomplishments.

Despite her continuous poor performance she has all ways handled herself with class and given 100 percent and conducted herself in racing as a professional. So I will try to wait until deeper into the season to reassess her results NASCAR and overall racing to see if there is any significant change or relevant events in her career.

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With the exception of a road course race, the 5 tracks run so far are roughly representative of the majority of the tracks on the Sprint Cup schedule. Patrick is basically the worst performer so far given her superior equipment and team and that of her teammates. The only full time drivers below her in points with 5 starts are in inferior equipment, with the exception of Montoya. Montoya is off to a terrible start but his driving skills are already proven. A special note should be given to AJ Allmendinger. He has only 3 starts and is 5 points ahead of Patrick in the point standings. That's not really a comparison but it is worth mentioning. I didn't watch every minute of the race Sunday but I don't recall any mention of where she was running or any focus given to her during the race, as she shouldn't be getting any.

On other race notes Sunday, apart from the dust up between Logano and Hamlin again, Tony Stewart showed that he needs to revisit his anger therapist again This is a double funny since he shouldn't have gone to an anger therapist a few years ago in the first place. Tony should just be Tony and not be molded in to something else that his sponsors want. Teams and sponsors should not be making all the drivers in to monotone, cliche spewing, robots. It is counter productive. The sponsor thinks that they can't risk damage to their brand by a loose cannon but in reality their driver won't bring attention to their brand when acting like a sedated mental patient.
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Stewart as usual was out of line in his attempt to shove and punch Logano.

Someone should put a stop to Stewart's random unprovoked anger and physical attack by stepping up and into him when he attacks and throw and land a full force solid punch to Stewart's face. After Stewart gets up off of the ground, has his teeth repaired and nose fixed he might finally get the big picture.

He would be much more exciting winning a race than getting in sissy fights.

If you are serious about Stewart then that makes absolutely no sense. Somebody should violently attack Stewart to stop him from violently attacking others? LOL. Anybody willing to step up and fight is not a sissy in my book. I don't think he should fight either but I wouldn't call him a sissy.

I didn't call him a sissy. I said he fights like a sissy. Big difference.

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Someone should put a stop to Stewart's random unprovoked anger and physical attack by stepping up and into him when he attacks and throw and land a full force solid punch to Stewart's face.

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Thread -> Danica Patrick

Danica Patrick can't fight well either. Same as her NASCAR peers and her teammate Stewart after his blow up in the race that Patrick did so poorly race wise and that caused the momentary drift to the fighting topic.

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I am disappointed in this thread since it has no pics of Danica in a bikini.
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which would be the sole reason why she's in NASCAR. The biggest problem is the longer she goes doing basically nothing the more NASCAR, etc lose credibility. If she has the talent to race Sprint (still Winston Cup in my mind) Cup and be competitive she hasn't shown it yet.
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Patrick had a good outing today. After starting in 32nd position, she moved up to finish at # 12.
»scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/racin···s=NASCAR

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I'm first to bash her so she deserves credit with a good showing. So much of the result at Martinsville is on the driver's shoulders. She did a good job.