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Danica Patrick ends career by losing control of her car

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Danica Patrick crashed on the 68th lap of the 2018 Indianapolis 500 on Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in what was her final professional race.

Patrick lost control of her car coming around a turn and slammed into the wall....
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Nobody did this to her, she simply could not manage the basics even after all the practice she has had.

Good Riddance.,,,she deserved to be gone many years ago.


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So did the other drivers who crashed also " could not manage the basics even after all the practice"?

One of the announcer/analysis stated the new cars are producing less downward force making them looser in some of the turns. Yes, its driver error along with design flaws.

You can dislike her all you like. In the end, she did ok for a career in racing.
 
To go down the list of drivers that were canned for far less troublesome season performances, I'd eat up the whole server space.

She was given too many opportunities based on little results.
 
No matter what,she looks great in a bikini
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Nobody did this to her, she simply could not manage the basics even after all the practice she has had.

Good Riddance.,,,she deserved to be gone many years ago.
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1. They said the same exact thing happened to a male driver earlier so does he deserve to have his career over?

2. Why do you say she deserved to be gone many years ago?

3. What do you think the purpose of a race car driver is?
 
MovingPictures said:
To go down the list of drivers that were canned for far less troublesome season performances, I'd eat up the whole server space.

She was given too many opportunities based on little results.
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What's the purpose of a race car driver?
 
Fishking said:
1. They said the same exact thing happened to a male driver earlier so does he deserve to have his career over?

2. Why do you say she deserved to be gone many years ago?

3. What do you think the purpose of a race car driver is?
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3) To win

2) lack of winning plus over many years earning a rep for whining too much and self promoting too much but trying too little to win

1) if he was likewise a novelty act who had proven years ago that he will never be a winner, sure.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
3) To win

2) lack of winning plus over many years earning a rep for whining too much and self promoting too much but trying too little to win

1) if he was likewise a novelty act who had proven years ago that he will never be a winner, sure.
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3. Wrong, they are walking billboards and, as such, their only real purpose is to draw attention to the products of their sponsors, normally winning is how this is accomplished but that also leaves room for....

1. ....novelties.

2. 3 & 1 answers 2.
 
Grand Mal said:
Her eighth Indy, top ten six times, finished third once and got kudos from Dale Earnhardt.
And you say she couldn't manage the basics. Hmm. Dale or you, who to believe...
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Not to mention that she announced last November that she would be retiring after this race, regardless of the results. This thread is a ode to misogyny. I give her due props for holding her own in a male-dominated sport for nearly a decade!
 
MovingPictures said:
To go down the list of drivers that were canned for far less troublesome season performances, I'd eat up the whole server space.

She was given too many opportunities based on little results.
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Yet, how much viewership did she bring to the race circuit? How many of her sponsors like Go Daddy are stating what a dismal failure and asking why did we sign her.

In NASCAR and the Indy circuit. How many drivers were just average or never really did well? Were they given too many opportunities for the results they produced?
 
Superfly said:
Did you say the same thing about Dale Earnhardt? Michael Waltrip? Richard Petty?
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Michael Waltrip sucked.

Earnhardt and Petty won seven titles, there's no comparison.

They are great female drivers in drag racing like Muldowney, Shelly Anderson, Erica Enders, and Force girls, but the career of Danica Patrick didn't have much to talk about.
 
Race driving like any other sport demands results. It's a sport where money is spent conservatively and great drivers often lose their rides over one bad season.

If you're a guy, you get only a season to prove yourself - maybe two. After that, owners expect improvement that you're meeting some level of success, or they show you the door.
 
DiAnna said:
Not to mention that she announced last November that she would be retiring after this race, regardless of the results. This thread is a ode to misogyny. I give her due props for holding her own in a male-dominated sport for nearly a decade!
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Please stop.

It's not misogyny to point out that Patrick had incredibly mediocre results throughout her career.

Any other driver would have been shown the door after two season of her crashing - you're lying to yourself if you think otherwise.
 

That's not what I am talking about. Clearly his own issue is that she was a woman. Not her driving ability. I didn't say she was good, bad or anything else. Earnhardt crashed. Petty crashed. Waltrip crashed. I want to know if he was silent when they crashed, or did he feel that they could not manage the basics despite all the practice they had?
 
What a chump thread.

If she had a willing sponsor and qualified in the trials then she had a right to be there.

I truly doubt anyone here could handle a car going 220 mph for 500 miles in bumper to bumper traffic.
The fastest I have gone is 120 mph on a bike and I thought I was just hanging on to the handlebars. Can't even fathom going another 100 mph faster.
 
He's a lot of things I can't say upstairs.

NASCAR fans are not exactly tolerate of ANYONE that aren't "good old boys" - look at Jeff Gordon.

Crashing happens in racing, so do poor seasons. What's problematic is when a driver is crashing more than finishing, then not bringing home good results when they do finish the races.

Patrick wasn't an awful driver, she was just decent. Over in Indycar she was actually competitive - often a front runner. Still, she only won a single race in over a hundred start, which is nothing legendary.

She broke barriers and showed capable women can be competitive, that's her legacy.
 
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I wish Patrick had stuck with Indycar instead of wasting her time trying to please the NASCRASH crowd of classless racers and their fans.

She would have won her few more races.
 
MovingPictures said:
Go fast, turn left (or right), and win.

What did you think it was?
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To be walking billboards that draw people's attention to the products of the sponsors, which is generally don't by winning but in this case it can be done by novelty.
 
Fishking said:
To be walking billboards that draw people's attention to the products of the sponsors, which is generally don't by winning but in this case it can be done by novelty.
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Touche. :thumbs:

Plenty of losers in racing that have rides based on personality instead of results.

Part of the reason sponsors wanted NASCAR rides over those in open-wheel. More space on the car to advertise.
 
Superfly said:
Did you say the same thing about Dale Earnhardt? Michael Waltrip? Richard Petty?
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Those guys all won races, Patrick in almost 400 races over 13 years never could manage....not the same thing.

And still she thought she deserved one last Daytona and one last Indy....those who paid the freight as she crashed out of both did not get much for their money, though in her defense the Daytona crash was not her fault.

Daytona 101/200 laps

Indy 67/200
 
MovingPictures said:
Touche. :thumbs:

Plenty of losers in racing that have rides based on personality instead of results.

Part of the reason sponsors wanted NASCAR rides over those in open-wheel. More space on the car to advertise.
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Yup...totally the most shameless sport for advertising. I mean, all sports do it, but nothing comes close to being so brazen.
 
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