Is Danica Patrick Your Favorite Female Indy 500 Driver?
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2011/05/26 17:30:37
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Female drivers in the Indy 500 sure have come a long way -- and that includes Danica Patrick.
It all started with another female driver, though.
Nowadays, the fan favorite seems to be Patrick, who started competing during her rookie season in 2005. But she's definitely got some friendly female competition this year.
Out of the 33 cars competing in the Indy 500, four of them will belong to women. Aside from Patrick, there will also be Simona de Silvestro from Switzerland, Ana Beatriz from Brazil and Pippa Mann from England.
Is Danica Patrick your favorite female behind the wheel?
It all started with another female driver, though.
When Janet Guthrie became the first female driver to compete in the 1977 Indianapolis 500, she opened the door for future female drivers.
Nowadays, the fan favorite seems to be Patrick, who started competing during her rookie season in 2005. But she's definitely got some friendly female competition this year.
Out of the 33 cars competing in the Indy 500, four of them will belong to women. Aside from Patrick, there will also be Simona de Silvestro from Switzerland, Ana Beatriz from Brazil and Pippa Mann from England.
Is Danica Patrick your favorite female behind the wheel?
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TombstoneJim 2011/05/26 18:39:50No (include photo of your fave here)+4That would b my wife on the way to the mall - you think Danica's agressive in the straight away - whoa momma at Becky's Jeep in a draft pass.... :-)






















Really hot Rally America Tracey Gardiner, Tagrallysport
Such as Ashley Force has won races in superior Equipment and has proven she has what it takes to WIN... We forget about the Shirley Muldowney's, Sarah Fishers, or How About Angelle Savoie/Sampy?? She actually won a few Championships.. My current hat is off to Jennifer Jo Cobb for refusing to start and park, and the fact she Personally sponsors the car she drives, and the fact "she has an obligation to race for her fans and Sponsors"... Just because Danica takes her clothes off and is in the public spectactle, has no bearing as to how good of a driver she is. Ok in Indy and Mediocre at best in the secondary series of Nascar... She will never win a championship, as many others have already done before her, Go ANA!!
Such as Ashley Force has won races in superior Equipment and has proven she has what it takes to WIN... We forget about the Shirley Muldowney's, Sarah Fishers, or How About Angelle Savoie/Sampy?? She actually won a few Championships.. My current hat is off to Jennifer Jo Cobb for refusing to start and park, and the fact she Personally sponsors the car she drives, and the fact "she has an obligation to race for her fans and Sponsors"... Just because Danica takes her clothes off and is in the public spectactle, has no bearing as to how good of a driver she is. Ok in Indy and Mediocre at best in the secondary series of Nascar... She will never win a championship, as many others have already done before her, Go ANA!!
Remember... The difference between Indy Racing and World Rally Championship Racing is...
An Indy Driver sees the SAME CORNER hundreds of times...
A Rally Driver sees HUNDREDS OF CORNERS only ONE time!
So who has to be the better driver?
Again from Wiki: Michèle Mouton (born 23 June 1951 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a former French rally driver. She is the most successful and well-known female rally driver of all time, as well as arguably the most successful female in motor racing as a whole.[1]
She was the first (and so far the only) woman to win a round of the World Rally Championship, the Rallye Sanremo in 1981. She went on to finish a close second overall in the 1982 WRC after wins in Portugal, Brazil and Acropolis, with only the unreliability of the Audi Quattro that she was driving ultimately enabling Opel rival Walter Röhrl to snatch the title.
In 1984, she was the first woman to win the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb race in the United States. She won again in 1985, breaki...
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Remember... The difference between Indy Racing and World Rally Championship Racing is...
An Indy Driver sees the SAME CORNER hundreds of times...
A Rally Driver sees HUNDREDS OF CORNERS only ONE time!
So who has to be the better driver?
Again from Wiki: Michèle Mouton (born 23 June 1951 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a former French rally driver. She is the most successful and well-known female rally driver of all time, as well as arguably the most successful female in motor racing as a whole.[1]
She was the first (and so far the only) woman to win a round of the World Rally Championship, the Rallye Sanremo in 1981. She went on to finish a close second overall in the 1982 WRC after wins in Portugal, Brazil and Acropolis, with only the unreliability of the Audi Quattro that she was driving ultimately enabling Opel rival Walter Röhrl to snatch the title.
In 1984, she was the first woman to win the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb race in the United States. She won again in 1985, breaking the record of the race. Mouton effectively quit rallying after the Group B category was banned in late 1986, both unwilling to take part in a new, slower championship under Group A rules, and eager to start a family. However, she was to be a key figure in the organization of the rallying Race of Champions in 1988, in memory of Henri Toivonen.
She also has taken part in the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans, in an all-female team.
In 2000, she finished 2nd driving a Porsche 911 in the London-Sydney Marathon with co-driver 1993 winner Francis Tuthill, behind ex-teammate Stig Blomqvist.
In 2010, she became the first President of FIA's Women & Motor Sport Commission.[2] In November 2010 she was demonstrating her Quattro at the Race of Champions in Düsseldorf's Esprit Arena when she clipped a curb and rolled the car onto its roof. Both Mouton and her passenger escaped uninjured.
Quite a coincidence that the only race she ever won (her big claim to fame) was because the guy that had just won a million dollars from that same network the previous week, mysteriously slowed down to let her pass and win? hummmm?
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I remember the Janet Guthrie era. Danica and the others owe her a big thanks as just getting on the track was not easy.
Quite a coincidence that the only race she ever won (her big claim to fame) was because the guy that had just won a million dollars from that same network the previous week, mysteriously slowed down to let her pass and win? hummmm?"
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You can always tell the quality of a person by their command of the English vocabulary, or lack there of. ;-^)>
My bad!