Danica Patrick***Indy 500***WOW

Currently running 6th

they were in the same go kart race and sam passed her in a turn..the next turn she drove over his back wheel for the pass....i see she is leading right now..rock on danica

Robbie Gordon said that he wouldn't race against her because she has a weight advantage. She's 5'2 and 100 pounds where Robbies is a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier. Seems the IRL only weighs the car, not the car and driver combined, so there's some legitimacy to that argument.

I live in central Indiana, so she's been the center of conversation all month, but it bugs me that no matter how well she does on the track, she's still a woman first and a driver second. Dave Callabro, the sports reporter for the local NBC affiliate has been acting like the proverbial male chauvinist pig all month. Patrick is on their broadcast team and every time she appears Callabro makes some snide comment about lipstick or some garbage.

I wonder if they'd give her the respect she deserves even if she would win.

If Robbie won a race and a fatter man than him finished second, would he give up his victory?

Was it two tears ago at Sonoma. Poor Robbie.

First WOMAN to EVER LEAD at Indy!!!

Go, Danica, go!

4th according to ABC?

I didn't know about her.... COOL! I hope she wins

The radio coverage just brought in Gov. Mitch Daniels and they just GUSHED over him.

"And now the GOVernor of the GREAT state of INdiana -- MY MAN MITCH Daniels!"

That rated a STFU from me directed at the radio.

We don't get to see the race broadcast live here so we're stuck with the radio and it's just awful. The race is going on and they spend all their time talking about everything except the race. And there are no such things as "tires," it's always "Firestone Firehawks." Product placement everywhere.

according to ABC during the last set of pit stops she became the first woman to ever be officially credited with leading a lap at Indy. GO DANICA!

Radio announcer said there was "no excuse" for that today because of traction control. Sounds like they're quite happy to see her have problems.

Either she fucked up or her clutch is going, but to me they sounded like they played it straight. Stalling in the pit when you're dogging the lead is a disaster.

hopefully she'll shut them the hell up.

The announcers on ABC are being really good about her today. Sorry the radio guys are being dicks. :(

Stalling in the pits is common and can have many mechanical causes.

I've tried Q95 and WIBC...:shrug:

...is not that bad. This could have been MUCH worse.
She recovered well.

She has a fast car. If there isn't something going bad in the car, I think she'll take her time and work her way back to the front.
Alot of racing left.

I could fixate on her, just as I could fixate on a certain Elise owner and member of a certain Lotus Enthusiast's Group:

http://www.gglotus.org/ggmembers/ggmembers.htm

Wow..not quite a perfect oval to drive around over and over and over and over and over and over and over! More exciting than NASCAR! Spectators have at least 12 more teeth and 10 more IQ points! Now they have a woman they can all latch on to!

Take your elitism elsewhere.

(old school translation: touche')

First time I try out the youngster's vernacular and I get called on it! :P

Did I use it correctly? :D

I'm 55 years old. Is Snap some sort of hip lingo now? What could it mean? Is Snap a good thing?

Or at least that's what I think it means. That's why I asked. Sorry for not knowing your age.

On a side note, that's a fairly belligerent subject line you've chosen, the Lounge is usually pretty silly, but sometimes people get defensive in a hurry.

just burns fossil fuel for the amusement of it. Maybe I think that it's moronic to glorify the "sport" of auto racing. Wow, a woman can drive, too. How novel. Let's spend our money to see it live and go the "extra mile" support all the advertisers. That would be smart.

Oh, and you free to think whatever you please. But, when you insult people that crosses a line.

Go on, I dare ya.

is a thin-blooded commie who can't drive.

Shoulda stayed in school.

:)

if he was a real red-blooded patriot he'd be racing NASCAR. ;)

that was run over by an oil tanker.

Or something.

:)

AJ IV's grandfather. He of the ill-temper and the 4 Indy 500 wins. :D

He was in a pit road fight a couple of years ago. I think he's at least 70. It MIGHT be a fair fight...

ain't no commie.

The blood thins, you see.

for everything...even on their cornflakes. ;)

I'm chewing on a tire as we speak.

Enjoy your Firestone! :9

in Iraqi oil first then you're a commie pinko and must be re-edumacated forthwith. Homeland Security is on it's way to your apartment.

and I'm gonna be giggling about that one for quite a while. I would have posted a suitable smart ass reply...but I'm busy putting out the electrical fire started when I spewed water all over the puter. :)

*snap snap*

renewables.

Thanks for the correction.

I just don't feel like picking a fight with other DUers on this cheery day.

Plus there are a LOT of dudes out there theat are gonna have re-examine their machismo if Danica Patrick wins. That's worth a lot right there.

On edit: poor word choice in the subject line. And Hi ther bvar22! :hi:

A lot more fossil fuel getting to the track.

I would even bet that the NFL consumes more fossil fuel by fans getting to the games.

yu shunt talk down to us we luv them heros in them cars fighten for freedom!!!!

I am certainly not the most astute race fan by any stretch, but these cars are busting 230pmh in traffic. Oval or no oval, that takes some skill. After Foyt fucked up and they got him in front of a camera, he looked like he'd been beaten with sticks.

Looks hard to me.

you have to wonder if he ever had any choice about what he was gonna be when he grew up.

...to those who don't understand the game!

I'll be watching NASCAR later today with as much enthusiasm and enjoyment.

Auto Racing is VERY cerebral for those who understand this complex game.


"And don't criticize what you can't understand!"---Bobby Dylan

about how it's just hitting the gas and turning left. But the factis I can't even imagine the reflexes required to drive that fast.

The amount of science and engineering that goes on each race is amazing.

It used to bore me when I was younger, until I figured out what was going on

TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILES AN HOUR IN TRAFFIC.

Covering a football field a second.

Engineering makes the car go fast. The driver keeps it on the road.

I once got a car up to 120pmh on the highway. All alone. On a straight line. It was hard, and scary.

230mph in a crowd.

I got my mom's Lincoln Town Car up to 140 back in high school. I was late. I had missed my turn on a country backroad. I wasn't paying attention and it didn't even feel like I was going over 70...smoothest ride ever.

Still...100 miles an hour faster than that seems scary. :scared:

even in Nascar when they do 180 6" apart for 500 miles like it's nothing.

the amount of concentration is incredible

I guess I'll have to work another 15 years as an engineer before I understand, huh.

down to consumer autos.

I'll take a while, but we'll all have traction control and carbon fibre brakes eventually.

I don't label things boring or dumb until I understand them enough to formulate that opinion. Wasting fuel is wasting fuel. Better that it can be produced here in the USAand burns cleaner? Not really, if all you want to do with it is drive around in circles to see who can do that slightly better. Oh, yeah...then there's the tires that they waste. Grown and produced right here? Cleaner burning? Lord knows that our landfills could use another bunch of composite plastic auto parts that might need to be replaced due to damage. It just seems stupid and wasteful. I'll stop having an opinion. Mine always seem to offend. Sorry I don't fall in line as easily.

However, you insulted millions of people by calling them stupid. You can think an activity is stupid, but to label the people that enjoy that activity as stupid is wrong.

that there's NOTHING you do that anyone might consider wasteful.

She just touched tires with another car at speed and kept it in the road.

The last time two cars touched tires today, one wound up out of the race and the other wound up in about a thousand pieces with the driver in the hospital.

The lady can drive, folks.

keeping it under control. You're right though...seems like there have been a few too many instances today of slower cars not following the prevailing courtesy of getting out of the way and it has caused problems.

A slower car just clipped Danica's front end in a turn...Danica never lifted.
Composure!!!
Now 12th

that's one spot higher than the highest finish ever by a woman. (Lyn St. James)

Lady comin through!

i am not a fan of auto racing but this is still awesome

The wimmins is keeping it in the road. :)

about wimmin drivers. ;)

Man things happen fast at 230. 1/2 a heartbeat, an eyeblink of concentration and BAM.

Danica NEEDS a good pit stop. She was moving at the end of that last run.

Hopefully the clutch is holding.

She's in 9th.

but I think she's a lot sexier in her racing outfit or in the fully clothed pic up top in the black leather. Hubba.

Don't care.

That pic of her in her helmet, just her eyes, murders me.

She's the host. Has been for a while now. She's very good on TV, but she's a much better driver.

She does have beuatiful eyes.

And you have good taste. ;)

P.S. All the half-nekkid women in car magazines are photoshopped. They're more CGI than JarJar.

It is her intensity and confidence that I find attractive.

when you've got someone to root for. :)

Hot shit.

after the pit stop.

Hubby decided to make the trip from eastern Pa to Indy to watch his first Indy race today. Hope he's having fun.. I know I couldnt sit there for 4 hours but kudos to them. Cant wait for him to come home tonight. 6 hr drive ahead of him.. YAY!

I dont particularly like the sport, but there are other people out there who do and who am I to knock what they like?

Left front wing gone, gash in the nose cone.

Scrambling for repairs.

Still rolling.

NOT finishing this race. :)

What the heck just happened?

Good Lord.

200 mph.

ever again about driving in Austin traffic. :) This is amazing.

That happens with those light, powerful cars from time to time.

Edit - nice save on her spin though. :thumbsup:

...if nothing else is bent. They replaced the nose cone, but they will have to guess at the wing setting.

Still not sure what happened.

I might actually have to start watching it.

Julie

Women have been racing for years.

Janet Guthrie, Lyn St. James, Sarah Fisher and now Danica Patrick. All have run in the 500.

:)

She made it to the top and raised the bar for the men in Drag Racing.

There are quite a few women in drag racing now.

Squirt racers ARE a different breed.
I loved it when the Drag Boys were whining that it wasn't fair because women have quicker reactions than men.

*blink blink blink*

You mean to tell me they actually said that? Out loud?

along with Nancy Lopez and Nancy Lieberman-Cline. :)

when it's "Ladies (plural) and gentlemen...start your engines" and nobody even feels like it's worth mentioning the gender of the drivers.

...can Danica make it to the end without another stop??
Everyone else has to stop at least once more.

She should slide in and top off with 1 lap to go before green.

after ALL that.

moving.....

:)

Why can't we have the Indy 500 w/ no commercials? Soccer broadcasts just have a little advertising up by the game clock. Why can't we have that for this race?

Just a thought...

This helps Danica.

Didn't stop!!!!!

She stayed out of the pits!

Enough in the tank...

:scared:

stretching it out....
looking good....!!!!

I hope this turned out to be a good decision. *bouncebouncebounce*

no stopping now.

How will they ever get over it if a woman wins the Indy?

I guess.

:)

:rofl: that's what my husband was saying "think of what all the rednecks are saying now..."

:rofl:

oh, god, if that was my child I would be a nervous wreck...

this girl can drive!

No fucking around.

It's all in the tank now.

Then...when they get close, she'll drop the hammer.

please have enough fuel.....go danica go.....

Marginal on fuel.

wish all my fuck-ups turned to solid gold!

Just need to stay in front,...no need to waste fuel trying to pull away.

what she did today took nerve and guts and lord knows we'll all remember it for a lonlong time. YOU GO GIRL!

Does that mean shes driving a red car? (dont yap at me :) I never watched these before so I am clueless)

Makes it even more amazing.

I'm all for her!!

I think Patrick's car is faster if both are running at 100%. At least fuel is not an issue.

she takes second.

I hate it when races finish like that. I'd like them to have 5-8 laps to just run flat out and see who wins.

:bounce:

*gasping*

goooooooooooooooooo Danica!!

ownership of? I can't remember anymore.

*shakes fist*