Compensating for masculine deficiencies
Danica Patrick, you have officially made a splash.
Patrick is the woman making all the buzz this month in Indianapolis, where tomorrow she'll start from the inside of the second row in the Indy 500.
She's not the first woman to qualify and race at the 500, but she's the first woman whom informed observers have thought had a strong chance of actually winning the big race. If not for a brief spin on her first qualifying lap she'd be starting on the pole tomorrow, and she's routinely posted some of the fastest speeds in practice all month.
Now that speed has drawn the ire of some other drivers. In particular, Robby Gordon, a full-time NASCAR driver who occasionally takes a crack at running in the 500.
Why is Gordon upset about Patrick? Because he's a fat ass and she's a physically fit, petite woman.
"The lighter the car, the faster it goes," Gordon said. "Do the math. Put her in the car at her weight, then put me or Tony Stewart in the car at 200 pounds and our car is at least 100 pounds heavier.
"I won't race against her until the IRL does something to take that advantage away."
Yeah, I'm sure race officials are just itching to put Danica Patrick, a poster girl who's already had a spread in laddy mag FHM and is causing people around the country and world to pay attention to the 500 once more, on some sort of weight-gaining diet, or to impose some other hindrance on her, just so they can woo a middling NASCAR hack back to Indy.
It's great to see how much she's already getting under people's skins that they have to resort to just outrageously vapid attacks to massage their egos at the thought that they're gonna lose to a woman.
Patrick is the woman making all the buzz this month in Indianapolis, where tomorrow she'll start from the inside of the second row in the Indy 500.
She's not the first woman to qualify and race at the 500, but she's the first woman whom informed observers have thought had a strong chance of actually winning the big race. If not for a brief spin on her first qualifying lap she'd be starting on the pole tomorrow, and she's routinely posted some of the fastest speeds in practice all month.
Now that speed has drawn the ire of some other drivers. In particular, Robby Gordon, a full-time NASCAR driver who occasionally takes a crack at running in the 500.
Why is Gordon upset about Patrick? Because he's a fat ass and she's a physically fit, petite woman.
"The lighter the car, the faster it goes," Gordon said. "Do the math. Put her in the car at her weight, then put me or Tony Stewart in the car at 200 pounds and our car is at least 100 pounds heavier.
"I won't race against her until the IRL does something to take that advantage away."
Yeah, I'm sure race officials are just itching to put Danica Patrick, a poster girl who's already had a spread in laddy mag FHM and is causing people around the country and world to pay attention to the 500 once more, on some sort of weight-gaining diet, or to impose some other hindrance on her, just so they can woo a middling NASCAR hack back to Indy.
It's great to see how much she's already getting under people's skins that they have to resort to just outrageously vapid attacks to massage their egos at the thought that they're gonna lose to a woman.
posted by Alexander Dubcek | 16:31
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