Jockstocks Forums - Danica Patrick

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In a move that was seemingly years in the making, Danica Patrick announced in early December that she will give NASCAR a try, beginning with running a part-time schedule for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports in the triple-A Nationwide Series.

While Patrick has yet to accomplish anything in a stock car, she trumps Johnson simply because of her appeal. More than any other driver – open wheel or stock car – Patrick is a crossover star, meaning she attracts race fans and non-race fans alike.

Though her “wow” moment won’t come until she makes her debut on Feb. 6 in Daytona in the ARCA series, so far she’s doing all the right things leading up to her moonlighting experiment. She’s willing to start at the bottom and work her way up; she’s not promising anything but what’s on the immediate horizon – i.e., she’s making no Cup Series predictions; and she came right out and said it’s probably not a good idea to make her debut in the 2010 Nationwide opener at Daytona, which is essentially a Cup race in different cars.

With apologies to Johnson and the rest of the NASCAR world, whatever Patrick does on the track in 2010 will be the biggest story of the weekend, a fact demonstrated earlier this month when she drew a minor media circus at an ARCA test in Daytona – an event that without her would have gone mostly undocumented. Some race fans can’t and won’t understand why this is. But it’s simple, really – like it or not, a lot of people want to know what Danica Patrick is up to.

I'm all for giving someone a chance...but the media is acting like this is the second coming of Tiger Woods!
If she is going to succeed, the media must back-off...but they won't!...It's WHY she is getting a chance...she's pretty and has car sense.
Really NOT headline worthy...let alone top story of the year!!! Pulllease!!

I'll be rooting for her, but mostly because she is a female trying to make her mark on a male dominated industry. I think her quite capable as a driver, just not... 'special'!
I hope she makes me eat my words and wins multiple races....but I can't see her winning any!
She certainly is built for speed!!!