Wreck ruins Danica's NASCAR debut

washingtonpost.com: "DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Even as her mangled race car belched steam from its radiator in the background, Danica Patrick remained confident she would have good days in NASCAR.

This wasn't one of them.

Making her NASCAR debut, Patrick ran outside the top 20 for most of Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway before getting caught up in a 12-car wreck just past the race's halfway point.

Patrick was hoping to learn as much as she could about a new style of racing. She ended up going to the school of hard knocks."   more

 Patrick's car is the green one.  (AP Photo/David Graham)

 

These damn women drivers! lol just kidding, that was too easy. 

Actually one could also say there were 12 cars in the wreck in which she was involved and she was the only woman, the rest were all men.. However, truth be told, I'm not a big fan of women doing "male" things.  And this, NASCAR racing, is one of those MAN THINGS I'm particularly not too enthused to see, and the crash in her first NASCAR race bears this out.

In fact, the late Dale Earnhardt was killed on this very track and race,  and yesterday his son Dale Jr both lifetime Stock car racers, was involved in this crash as well.

What if she was killed in this crash? Then we'd be hearing all the folks who silently agree with me that this, like front line combat, are best left to men, but are just too PC to say anything about it nowadays. Only then, God forbid should it happen,  it'll be too late.  

Truth is if she wasn't so good looking she wouldn't be getting the attention she does, because there are more qualified women out there racing all over who don't get the chance because they're not centerfold material, and that's bullshit.

Oh, and Tony Stewart won the race by the way. See that's what sucks too about this, here she crashes the damn car and gets more attention than the man who won the damn race! That angers me too.

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