Richard Petty on Danica Patrick

[HT413]

Awe, come on, how many guys wreck and just end their day without talking to the fans. Happens.

when she wrecked at the detroit grand prix...what a bad attitude.. stomping her feet all the way to her trailer walking past little kids that were wanting her autograph.... not very professional. Ya she can be HOT tho...

 

[modernistsouth]

I'm with the "King". This isn't a "Powder Puff" organization. Create their own class and let them drive in that! Naked!

I wouldn't go that far. If the Force sisters can win in NHRA, eventually women will win in NASCAR. But if we're going to talk about women driving naked, here is a pretty good list of women racers I would like to see drive naked. Danica is #1 on this list. I personally like the chick at #10, Madalena Antas.

http://www.wonderslist.com/top-10-hottest-female-race-car-drivers/

 

[ZR9B]

Awe, come on, how many guys wreck and just end their day without talking to the fans. Happens.

Ya....just you see a hot chick and....and....thats not what you want ....but your rite...

 

[fwi]

Like the man said........she did finish her first year in 27th place, which is not too shabby, considering 16 "good ol' boys" finished BEHIND her....... so what is their excuse for not doing better since they are men and "rightfully belong" in the sport of Napcar!:argue:

 

[tallhair]

Like the man said........she did finish her first year in 27th place, which is not too shabby, considering 16 "good ol' boys" finished behind her....... so what is their excuse for not doing better since they are men and "rightfully belong" in the sport of Napcar!:argue:

they may not be around long either

 

[satman72]

when she wrecked at the detroit grand prix...what a bad attitude.. stomping her feet all the way to her trailer walking past little kids that were wanting her autograph.... not very professional. Ya she can be HOT tho...

And... she's the only driver that ?

 

[WP29440SE]

maybe a little perverted but

I was hoping to see

Richard Petty on Danica Patrick

 

[Hemi Rebel]

Like the man said........she did finish her first year in 27th place, which is not too shabby, considering 16 "good ol' boys" finished BEHIND her....... so what is their excuse for not doing better since they are men and "rightfully belong" in the sport of Napcar!:argue:

she did better than 16 guys. But, I believe the point is who finished in 26th place? does that guy do tv adverts? Is he a household name? I can't stand modern NASCAR. But no know who the top guys are. The guys that finish first or close to it most of the time. And her. I know who she is.

 

[ZR9B]

And... she's the only driver that ?

that I want to see....well ...this is a family site and I don't want trouble...

 

[Bruzilla]

Petty is right. If she were a guy, no one would know she was at the track. More to the point, she wouldn't be at the track because her pre-NASCAR record was as pitiful as her NASCAR record.

Also, let's not forget that when she had her "great" show at Daytona, that was the year NASCAR went into max support mode for her. They pulled out all the stops to ensure she got the best of everything, so you got to wonder where those guys who finished the race behind her would have been if they had gotten all the support Patrick got at the race that year.

 

[tallhair]

Petty is right. If she were a guy, no one would know she was at the track. More to the point, she wouldn't be at the track because her pre-NASCAR record was as pitiful as her NASCAR record.

Also, let's not forget that when she had her "great" show at Daytona, that was the year NASCAR went into max support mode for her. They pulled out all the stops to ensure she got the best of everything, so you got to wonder where those guys who finished the race behind her would have been if they had gotten all the support Patrick got at the race that year.

What do you mean Bruz?

 

[67GTX440]

To get a true perspective, Richard needs to compare her record with Kyle's.

 

[Cranky]

when she wrecked at the detroit grand prix...what a bad attitude.. stomping her feet all the way to her trailer walking past little kids that were wanting her autograph.... not very professional. Ya she can be HOT tho...

Seems like I know of another famous race car driver that acted the same way. I won't say his name but his initials are A.J. Foyt

 

[satman72]

that I want to see....well ...this is a family site and I don't want trouble...

Well, for some reason, I didn't post my full thought. Which was "And she's the only driver that has done that?" Some drivers get really pissed off and are in a funk when they crash, others just wave it off and continue like nothing happened. You can't hold that against her.

Now, as far as her talent...Maybe she has what it takes, maybe she doesn't. You could say the same about anyone really. The only way to find out is to put them all in identical cars and let them go.

By the same token, you could also look at Juan Pablo Montoya. He did good in Indy car, He did good in Formula 1, he hasn't exactly lit the world on fire in Nascar.

I think Richard Petty is right. She won't win a championship. She's very good, but she's not great.

 

[kdtjb]

To get a true perspective, Richard needs to compare her record with Kyles.

Funny that is exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Bruzilla]

What do you mean Bruz?

Well, for starters, she's been in pro racing for 13 years, and in 13 years she's managed to win a whopping one race. Would you hire a lawyer who had only won one case in 13 years? Would you hire a quarterback who had won one game in 13 years? Would you hire a pilot who landed safely once in 13 years? Probably "no" would be the answer to all three. In her 39 NASCAR races she's been in, guess how many laps she's held the lead in? 41! Out of 10,036 laps she's run in NASCAR (yes, I looked it up), she's led only 41 of them, which in racing terms translates to pathetic.

Yet, despite this crappy record of professional racing success, Patrick gets added to the Baldwin Racing team so she can run as a rookie in the 2012 Daytona 500, where she starts 29th and finishes 38th. And yet despite this horrid finish, she gets lots of great publicity and gets selected to join the JR Motorsports team for the 2012 season! She lasts a mediocre year with JR, and what happens? Out of the blue, Stewart-Haas Racing says we want her, and brings her over to one of the premiere teams, just in time for her to run in the 2013 Daytona 500, where suddenly the gal who finished near the mid-bottom of the stack in 2012, and is a top 20 driver at best throughout 2012, suddenly captures the pole in 2013, which, strictly as a coincidence I'm sure, NASCAR had already initiated a huge marketing and exposure campaign for Patrick months before the race was run in order to elevate the sport amongst women.

So you have a driver who has a very poor track record of success who gets put into a Daytona 500 as to test the waters, and does very poorly race wise, but garners a HUGE amount of attention on a personal level, who then gets picked up by not one but two of the top racing teams and has a storied finish at a race that's been made all about her for months. And from what I heard from a long time friend at NASCAR, the squeeze was put on Stewart-Haas to ensure Patrick received the best equipment and the pit crews were shuffled around to make sure she had the best members at every position.

So you tell me... a driver has a mediocre, lack-luster career before a race. Then a race that's marketed primarily on her, and in an effort to attract women to the sport, is run and she makes a spectacular showing for herself. Then after said is over, and the hype is over, things return to normal at JR Motorsports and she's back to being her top 20 self again and gets herself sent to a different team. What's all that tell you? It tells me a mediocre driver got a LOT of help during that 2013 500 to make sure the results were what NASCAR wanted, and after the race was over that support was pulled and she went back to being mediocre.

 

[Ryguytoodry]

Who cares? It's NASCAR.....

Just kidding, not my kind of racing but to each their own.

Petty is just saying that she's not a great driver (which is the case), and without the fact that she's a woman, we wouldn't know the name Danica Patrick. He also stated that its good advertising for his name as well as sport by having a woman driver in NASCAR.

 

[Budnicks]

Like I said she's not my favorite driver, by a long shot, but at-least she out there

Seems like I know of another famous race car driver that acted the same way. I won't say his name but his initials are A.J. Foyt

Yeah he was a hoot sometimes good for a heated interview... Many others too like Cale Yarborough, Buddy Baker, Jr. Johnson, even the Petty's when they didn't win... Now the likes of Jaun Pablo Montoya, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Jimmy Johnson even Dale Sr. occasionally Dale Jr. etc., grant you they have actually won, but are all big whiners too... The list can go on & on of people that get out of the car & whine excessively from Petty's era & from today, everyone complained he had an unfair advantage too... Now for another point, If you know your racing history, there's haters whiners in every era, it's part of racing, they always think it's being diluted some how or some way... IMHFO if everyone that thinks it's so damn easy, lets see you get any type of sponsorship, without some kind of talent, no matter how attractive you are, you won't have a paid for ride, man or let alone any woman... Most of the people whining/criticizing her, have never been in any kind of real racecar ever... There's allot of people in racing that never win big races, in all aspects of racing, not just Indycar or NASCAR, that all make a great living as a mediocre drivers, 99.999999% of them are men... I commend her for doing what she loves, standing strong in a ubber-male dominated sport especially like NASCAR, under constant critics-ism, she's making the best of what she has going for her, she's not sitting on the sidelines critiquing everyone, like she's being always attacked... Haters will always be haters, I personally hate all the NASCAR-robots we have now, all cut from the same damn mold, all saying the same damn crap, no personality of there own, like Jimmy Johnson's of the racing world & he's a 6 time Champion now & a proven winner... Like I said before she's not my favorite driver by far, but at-least she out there doing it, good or not... I would love for any of my daughters or sisters to have the same chance as she has opened up... I remember a day when the same thing was done about race in baseball & football, progress & change is really hard for the diehards... I still love "King Richard", always will, there will never be another like him, but the sexist crap is wrong period, bringing it up all the time shows it in their mind, it's just another form of predigest... There's allot of petty {no pun intended}, envious, jealousy, animosity, resentment for someone's celebrity or fame, press attention, great sponsorship they think they should have $$$ instead of her, or that they deserve, especially when sponsorships are so hard to find today & you have a bunch of $$$ problems... I'm sure it's a nasty/bitter pill to swallow for some... Whether it's deserved or not in the world, someone always think someone else, is getting something, that they think is better used on them or someone else, there's a bunch of just envy or petty whinny crap... Her sex shouldn't ever come up in the argument if they don't think it's about her gender... She's a racecar driver 1st, she repeatedly beats a bunch of other racecar drivers allot, finishes in the middle of the field allot, she was from an open car series, she was use to twice the tire, 5 times the down-force & way better brakes & way less than 1/2 the car weight, she still finishes ahead of many drivers that don't win either, male or female, it doesn't seem anyone is complaining about them getting press or attention or sponsor $$$.... I don't get it, why the adamant hatred...

 

[67GTX440]

Dick Trickle was one of my all time NASCAR favorites and I don't think he ever won a race in his entire career.

NASCAR Career

In 1989 Trickle made his full schedule debut driving the #84 Miller High Life Buick for Stavola Brothers Racing. He had raced an occasional race during the 1970s and 1980s.[22] He was Rookie of the Year in NASCAR's Winston Cup (now the Sprint Cup) at age 48 (and a grandfather), becoming the oldest driver in Winston Cup history to do so.[23] After being given the Rookie of the Year trophy at the NASCAR Awards banquet, he quipped "I guess I’d just like to thank everyone who gave a young guy like me a chance".[23] His best career Winston Cup finish was third (5 times). He started 303 races, with 15 Top 5 and 36 Top 10 finishes.

Well, for starters, she's been in pro racing for 13 years, and in 13 years she's managed to win a whopping one race. Would you hire a lawyer who had only won one case in 13 years? Would you hire a quarterback who had won one game in 13 years? Would you hire a pilot who landed safely once in 13 years? Probably "no" would be the answer to all three. In her 39 NASCAR races she's been in, guess how many laps she's held the lead in? 41! Out of 10,036 laps she's run in NASCAR (yes, I looked it up), she's led only 41 of them, which in racing terms translates to pathetic.

Yet, despite this crappy record of professional racing success, Patrick gets added to the Baldwin Racing team so she can run as a rookie in the 2012 Daytona 500, where she starts 29th and finishes 38th. And yet despite this horrid finish, she gets lots of great publicity and gets selected to join the JR Motorsports team for the 2012 season! She lasts a mediocre year with JR, and what happens? Out of the blue, Stewart-Haas Racing says we want her, and brings her over to one of the premiere teams, just in time for her to run in the 2013 Daytona 500, where suddenly the gal who finished near the mid-bottom of the stack in 2012, and is a top 20 driver at best throughout 2012, suddenly captures the pole in 2013, which, strictly as a coincidence I'm sure, NASCAR had already initiated a huge marketing and exposure campaign for Patrick months before the race was run in order to elevate the sport amongst women.

So you have a driver who has a very poor track record of success who gets put into a Daytona 500 as to test the waters, and does very poorly race wise, but garners a HUGE amount of attention on a personal level, who then gets picked up by not one but two of the top racing teams and has a storied finish at a race that's been made all about her for months. And from what I heard from a long time friend at NASCAR, the squeeze was put on Stewart-Haas to ensure Patrick received the best equipment and the pit crews were shuffled around to make sure she had the best members at every position.

So you tell me... a driver has a mediocre, lack-luster career before a race. Then a race that's marketed primarily on her, and in an effort to attract women to the sport, is run and she makes a spectacular showing for herself. Then after said is over, and the hype is over, things return to normal at JR Motorsports and she's back to being her top 20 self again and gets herself sent to a different team. What's all that tell you? It tells me a mediocre driver got a LOT of help during that 2013 500 to make sure the results were what NASCAR wanted, and after the race was over that support was pulled and she went back to being mediocre.

 

[67GTX440]

You make a good case, but I think this trumps your points. Plus, how many other NASCAR drivers are patriotic enough to have an American flag tattooed on their ***?