Danica Patrick Close to Deal with Earnhardt Jr.’s Nationwide Team

[kneeOhFight]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?...=tsn&type=lgns

[BMWCCA]

Those two whiners should get along perfectly!

[bentpencil]

It never specifically mentioned her driving in the article.

Maybe she's gonna wash the cars in a bikini with one of them soapy sponges......

[BrocLuno]

Not her best picture

[zombie1210]

Is she gonna get nekkid?

[hobie1dog]

That's her normal look.....that has been mentioned many times before, she just needs to smile more.

Sad to hear that she wants to go "Tank Racing"

[12ax7]

As if Jr. hasn't had enough problems with strong willed women already.

[kneeOhFight]

anybody who thinks this woman can't drive a race car competitively is clueless about her career...she went to Europe as a teenager to compete in junior formulas, and was quite competitive against a number of aspiring F1 drivers, some of whom made it to the top flight. She has performed more than admirably in Indy Car racing getting in over her head much more rarely than most. She's been competing for most of her life in motorsports....if she cashes in on her efforts, more power to her. American ignorance of motorsports is pandemic, and tinged with more than a little sexism. She ain't gonna be young and gorgeous, or driving racing cars forever... she markets her looks for those out there too shallow to appreciate her professionalism and abilities, and who could blame her in this society. She would be something of a fool to not take the millions being thrust her way by a desperate sport...it has become too big a financial windfall for anyone to pass up, regardless of how boring it will no doubt prove to be for her....

[blownsi]

I'm not gonna argue whether she can drive or not but I'll give her one thing......

She puts butts in the seats and that's what matters these days. I think in some ways she has the Muhammed Ali or Howard Stern thing going for her.....aka her haters watch her more that her fans. At the end of the day that attention is all the sponsor's want anyhow.

[kneeOhFight]

Originally Posted by blownsi

I'm not gonna argue whether she can drive or not but I'll give her one thing......

She puts butts in the seats and that's what matters these days. I think in some ways she has the Muhammed Ali or Howard Stern thing going for her.....aka her haters watch her more that her fans. At the end of the day that attention is all the sponsor's want anyhow.

there is nothing to argue about..shes a consistent top ten runner in Indycars and is now a perennial threat to win the Indy 500..she has nothing to prove to anybody buy her employer,who is currently Michael Andretti, and at such time that he puts a winning car under her cute little behind, she'll take it to the front. She's a hard nosed, well prepared competitor, and has earned respect far beyond what she gets from a largely ignorant American motorsports fanbase

[zombie1210]

Check out her quailifications:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...rick/index.htm

[jocko_nc]

It is hard to take her serious about her talent with all the half-naked fluff. The GoDaddy ads are insulting, particularly to her.

Maybe she is a rare and unique talent that does not receive the credit she deserves.

Maybe she is a mediocre-though-very-hot-talent that received way too much credit and emphasis.

You can make the ingorant-sexist arguement, that she is a pioneer for women in racing. One can equally make the arguement that her actions are detrimental to women in racing; that she sucked the oxygen from the room with her base sex marketing and mega-exposure. How can any female expect to follow, much less an unattractive female? She turned female racing into sex and celebrity. Follow the money.

Here is a pioneering female racer. Less gloss and hype, more wins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Muldowney

[zombie1210]

Originally Posted by jocko_nc

It is hard to take her serious about her talent with all the half-naked fluff. The GoDaddy ads are insulting, particularly to her.

Maybe she is a rare and unique talent that does not receive the credit she deserves.

Maybe she is a mediocre-though-very-hot-talent that received way too much credit and emphasis.

You can make the ingorant-sexist arguement, that she is a pioneer for women in racing. One can equally make the arguement that her actions are detrimental to women in racing; that she sucked the oxygen from the room with her base sex marketing and mega-exposure. How can any female expect to follow, much less an unattractive female? She turned female racing into sex and celebrity. Follow the money.

Here is a pioneering female racer. Less gloss and hype, more wins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Muldowney

Jeezuz........ why don't we over analyze EVERYTHING?

[jocko_nc]

'Cuz I find that GoDaddy commercial really annoying. It runs during football. A thirty second spot with two hot women and I cannot even watch it. That is something hard to do.

[zombie1210]

A hot chick who is a good race car driver. What a concept.