Originally Posted By: billt460
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
I can guarantee she can drive a stock car better than 99.9% of the people on this forum. This is not just a NASCAR thing, plenty of paid for rides in IndyCar and F1.
That's not saying anything. The Cleveland Browns finished with the worst record in the NFL this year. Despite the efforts of no less than 5 professional quarterbacks. (Robert Griffin III, Cody Kessler, Josh McCowan, Kevin Hogan, and Pat Devlin).... ALL of whom can throw and complete passes better than ANY of the people on this forum. So what? Danica Patrick won only once in her entire professional career. And the only reason she did is because Helio Castroneves ran out of gas. Otherwise she never would have caught him.
Unlike female drivers before, and since, she has ALWAYS had good equipment. Rahal / Letterman, and Andretti / Green in Indy Car, and Stewart / Haas in NASCAR. No matter, she can't win. Most always finishing 20th or worse... If she doesn't wreck. If her equipment was given to any top ten driver in the series, they would have won, and won A LOT with it. The fact of the matter is that if it wasn't for her being a hot female, and somewhat marketable because of that, she would have been gone years ago. The fact she can drive better than people who frequent an oil forum is totally irrelevant. And completely meaningless. And please enlighten us as to when Danica ever started an F1 race? Especially considering the fact she isn't even qualified to possess the Super License necessary to drive a F1 car.
Don't get angry over a team's marketing decision, being PC has nothing to do with it. They know their business far better than you and I, and they keep her year after year. I suppose if there was a better female driver around they might hire them, but so far that hasn't happened.