Agenda behind Danica

Thank you.

How could a rookie and a female achieve this without it being fixed?

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Pushing a gas pedal and turning left for a few hours can be done by a fat monkey.

This is not a sport.

You can keep on worshipping your idols, though.

Have fun with all that.

 

Actually, while I agree with you, it would be impossible for him to prove that something isn't illegal.

 

That makes no sense. You claim that the job can be done by a fat monkey yet also claim that a female rookie is incapable. Also, Patrick isn't a rookie is she? I don't follow racing but I remember people talking about her years ago.

 

Actually that's not completely true. As a marketable product, the NBA/NFL/MLB would have to establish the fact that their product can be fixed to generate certain results. Just like the WWE establishes the legal fact that it is staged. So if there is anything out there that grants those establishments the right to fix the sport than you can prove it's not illegal. I know it's illegal for them to fix sports, even if they even hint at fixing a game or telling refs to let a certain team win, it would be a major federal offense. I'm just not a lawyer and don't know or care enough to find the exact law against them fixing sports.

 

Well he has already admitted not knowing any drivers but he feels he can still judge their morals on nothing more than his opinion. I cant think of too many sports that have a chaplain say a public prayer asking God to keep the competitors safe before each show starts.

 

She's a rookie to NASCAR itself, though she's been in another style racing company for 7 years.

 

She drove almost a full Nationwide schedule last year and ran several Cup races. The Nationwide car is a lower HP version of the Cup car. It also weighs less. But the HP to weight ration is almost the same. Trevor Bain was a rookie 2 years ago when he became the youngest person to win the Daytona 500 in a Wood Brothers Ford. Tony Stewart was both an open wheel driver and a dirt track winged sprint car driver before he came to NASCAR. Patrick ran a solid race Sunday, staying in the top ten almost all day. At Daytona, that is an accomplishment in itself.

 

And this means Danica should be able to do it just as they did?

I'm just not buying it.

 

Unfortunately for you point of view, she has. But given that you nothing about racing, I'm not surprised that you have trouble understanding it. She has experience in the cars and is driving for a team that not only has top grade equipment, it is also owned by a former series champion in Tony Stewart. She has been racing in one form or another since age 10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_Patrick

 

Yeah. Because we all know women are inferior to men and can't drive worth a (*)(*)(*)(*). What is this, 1913? Did I go into an alternate dimension and end up a century in the past?

 

I just read this on that wiki link:

"In 2013, Danica became the fastest pole qualifier to qualify since 1990 for the Daytona 500."

Again, I don't follow racing but is that saying that she's had the fastest pole time since 1990 at Daytona? If so, that would be kind of hard to fix wouldn't it?

 

Not hard. Quite literally impossible.

 

The cars have changed a lot since 1990 as well. This is the generation 6 car. The bodies now more closely resemble those of their street counterparts. The previous model called the "Car of Tomorrow" was introduced in 2007 in response to the deaths of several high profile drivers, including Dale Earnhardt Sr. They were all identical bodies with only the decals denoting maker. They were hated by the drivers. This is also the second year for fuel injection replacing carbs. Daytona is also a restrictor plate track, which means the amount of HP is reduced to keep speeds down to a"safe" level of around 190-200 MPH. Former driver Rusty Wallace was allowed to take an unplated car out at Talladega, the other plate track, before the C.O.T. was introduced. He ran an average lap speed of 240 MPH. I have heard talk that if the same thing was tried with today's Gen 6 car, the speeds could well top 260. What Patrick accomplished with her qualifying speed is a testament to to her ability, the ability of the mechanics and crews that build the engines, and the designers of the car bodies. Especially considering how tight the tolerances are on the cars. If you are as little as a half inch off on something like ride height, you will fail inspection. The bodies are all measured by a template. Again the tolerances are severe. NASCAR tries it's best to make sure the cars are equal, but they also know just how good crew chiefs are reading between the rules. The basic rule of almost any racing series is "unless the rule book says I can't do it, I'm gonna try it".

 

She drove in Indy racing before NASCAR. Surely, the skills learned in that sport surpass the skill of "turn left 500 times".

 

Sometimes knowing how to turn right is more important than knowing how to turn left in NASCAR.

 

I'm convinced there's an agenda. She's a female, probably a feminist. She's probably a baby adopting lesbian. There's no doubt she's a liberal plant to subvert traditional american values

 

Only ones I can think of that might have were the Earnhardts and the Pettys...but that's not just teammates, that's family!

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Planet X?

 

First person to win multiple Top Fuel titles was a woman.

You know nothing of racing...not that THAT is news, kid.

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Average finish for a pole-sitter at Daytona over the last 20 years is 15th. Danica placed 8th. Top 10 at Daytona...yeah, not bad!