You take advantage of your circumstances to beat the opposition. The team's strategy and fuel conservation won that race. How is that a bad thing? Now, half the field being in California? That's not ideal, but I truly doubt anyone would say anything about the win if Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, or another regular winner got the W. Still, it has to be said, this is her only win in any series since she came back to America.
Danica has always been great at using her position as an attractive female to gain sponsorship. If you could do that too, you would. And don't say that you wouldn't, you know you would.
Go Daddy liked what they saw and jumped in with Super Bowl ads. The gain of recognition for motorsports? The switch from serious racing driver to celebrity? As much as I defend Danica, I cannot defend this. It's that simple. Go Daddy can't really care how she performs, they have the most marketable driver in the series carrying their colors. And no matter how Danica finishes, the paycheck just keeps rolling in.
She qualified on pole and ran up front at the Daytona That's good. The rest? She was obsessively covered on TV when she was running 36th. She said she was learning. Look what she did in her first race. The following dozen races saw a media and fan frenzy everywhere she went in and around the pits.
The results? Lackluster at best. The year-old Illinois born driver had been gifted an automatic qualifying spot, started and finished in the high 20s. Not exactly setting the world on fire.
Even her crew chief cited their lucky experience. Not an all out, I-beat-the-rest-of-the-drivers-because-I-out-drove-them kind of situation. Is the Anna Kournikova of motor racing good for the sport in general as a role model for young woman looking to get involved in racing?
They had some success, winning an Xfinity pole at Daytona in , a fourth-place finish at Las Vegas in and that top finish in the standings. Not all drivers are knowledgeable on setups. Those who can perform despite not having that knowledge don't have anything to sweat. Those who don't will find a toxic atmosphere. Patrick, 35, had a roller-coaster ride in Cup.
She finished in the lead lap in 38 percent of her races. And when you start changing people around you, then the new people, when things didn't work, they always want to cover their ass. Patrick has insinuated that at times she didn't feel the full support of her team, saying as far back as September that "I don't think it's always constant" that she had people fighting for her. But that is natural at most teams when drivers struggle, and her teammates often outran her.
Last year, Harvick and Kurt Busch made the playoffs and Clint Bowyer finished 18th in the standings while Patrick was 28th. Obviously, SHR feels it did everything it could, and Stewart pointed to a disagreement between Patrick, him and SHR competition director Greg Zipadelli over whether to keep Tony Gibson as her crew chief late into her second season or to go to an engineer, which she was more used to on the IndyCar side.
The team made the change. Lately, I'm hearing that she keeps saying that the team didn't believe in her, which isn't right. We all believed in her. But the best crew chief that we had and the best pairing for her was the one she didn't want. She was her own worst enemy in that equation. It certainly wouldn't go down in history as the first disagreement over who should crew chief a driver, and the results showed the two different crew chiefs she had after Gibson didn't make much of a difference as she continued to struggle behind her SHR teammates.
I think probably one of the things that hurts me in my lower experience level in stock cars is that I just don't always know what to ask for to either get to that point or make it like that more often. Patrick wasn't a churchgoer when she was younger.
For her, Sundays were likely more for racing than for religion. She wasn't even sure what faith her family belonged to, admitting to The New Yorker in that she once "didn't even know" and thought she might be Lutheran.
It wasn't until she noticed The Passion of the Christ was playing in a theater in that she became interested in the subject via Danica Patrick: Racing to History. That was when she learned that Paul Hospenthal, whom she had been seeing at the time, was Catholic. The two got married the following year by a priest in a church, which is what Patrick wanted. Unfortunately, the marriage didn't last, and the couple divorced eight years later via USA Today.
It's unclear if Patrick still considers herself Catholic, but, judging by a Instagram post , she definitely believes in God. If you think firing someone sounds super awkward, just imagine what it's like firing your parents. That's what Patrick did to her dad, T. And their constant presence apparently became too much. So, how did her parents feel about the decision? Patrick's tune changed following her split from Paul Hospenthal. In an interview with In Depth with Graham Bensinger , she blamed her ex-husband for "manipulating" her and pressuring her to choose between him and them.
At the same time, she said, "I think that it's best to not have your parents working for you," and she questioned, "How do you hold your parents accountable for the little things when they're your parents? She and her then-boyfriend, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. I know you're not used to being this close to the front. Afterwards, Mohr told The Dan Patrick Show that he was surprised by the couple's reaction, which he described as an "icy cold glare. Danica, I thought, that was pretty easy in my opinion.
No death stares were delivered during her awkward monologue , but there were plenty of blank ones, which might be worse. Patrick hopes to become a mother one day and she even took out an "insurance policy" to improve her chances, according to her interview with The Joe Rogan Experience.
By that, she meant she underwent in vitro fertilization IVF treatment to freeze her eggs. The procedure, which took place during her post-divorce relationship with fellow race car driver Ricky Stenhouse , involved daily injections for about a month and "uncomfortable" weight gain. But just because Patrick went through with the process doesn't mean she will for sure go the frozen eggs route if and when she decides to have kids. She told The Joe Rogan Experience that she just wanted to keep her options open: "It doesn't mean I can't try a different way if I want to.
Because of her last name, people often immediately think Patrick is of Irish descent. And they're right — she does have some Irish in her. But that's only part of the story. Patrick told espnW that she's actually half Norwegian and just a quarter Irish.
In another espnW story, Patrick talked about how her American Indian ancestry inspired the logo for her Warrior clothing line.
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