3rd highest paid female athlete? Guess who!!
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Some of the Indy racers are better at ovals than road courses, and Danica is one of them. I'm sure there are many reasons why Danica is not as good on road courses, although I won't attempt to speculate. It seems to me Will Power and a few others really excel when the Indy cars are on road courses. I believe Will came up as a road racer and is more at home on a road course. Could be wrong as I often am.
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She deserves the money she's paid.
The other drivers were initially upset and jealous that her autograph line was 100 times longer than theirs, until they realized that "a rising sea floats all boats." I saw this eight years ago at the ALMS race she drove the 550 Ferrari for Prodrive.
Wait'll she heads over to NW or SC taxicabs. That $12M will double...
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I would say horse racing is relatively similar to auto racing. Dangerous as in having 1500 pound race horse fall on you or trample you. Lots of variables like in auto racing. Lots of strategy involved and racing luck. And women jockeys are around and do well also. In fact small size helps as in auto racing where weight is important. As the years pass, I believe you will see many more women in auto racing of all kinds just as you do in horse racing. And many will do well. Moreover, I do respect auto racers and horse jockeys as good athletes. I know how much concentration it takes, skill, and how you have to be in very good shape to withstand the g forces and heat, and how one mistake can end in disaster.
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In an arrive and drive situation the probability of getting race wins is higher as you're bound to find a good horse/car along the way. If you're in a bad car, you're never going to win all year.
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None. I've won several PCA club races, hold a track record for my class, and am an advanced instructor for my region's DE program. Compared to Danica, or any of the other professional racers in IRL, ALMS, Grand-Am, NASCAR, I'm a wannabe.
How about you? What kind of racing experience do you have?
How about you? What kind of racing experience do you have?
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You don't get it. Many pro level race drivers don't win many if any races. Some people are born with the silver spoon, some land on the right number, some work their *** off, some figure out how to work an existing system. Male dominated racing is a system that is open to being worked a bit by a somewhat good looking female mid pack driver. It is not your money or grid position she is taking. Why the hate?
I get it that she's an affirmative action entertainer, not a racing champion.
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None. I've won several PCA club races, hold a track record for my class, and am an advanced instructor for my region's DE program. Compared to Danica, or any of the other professional racers in IRL, ALMS, Grand-Am, NASCAR, I'm a wannabe.
How about you? What kind of racing experience do you have?
How about you? What kind of racing experience do you have?
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My opinion is that Danica seems to garner so much negativity is not so much because she is female, but because she gets so much attention that seems to be inverse to her accomplishments. I believe there are at least a few Indy drivers that have alluded to same criticisms. I understand that she is a good driver, but the battling for lead and results just don't show the talent of the top drivers. That fact seems to annoy many race fans. Her tactic of lying back, saving the car, shooting for one less pit stop time after time and hoping the top runners drop out and crash kind of wear thin after awhile. She does have good judgement, makes very few mistakes, and is very safe to race with and decently fast most of the time, but she never seems to be sniffing for lead even with top equipment and no trouble getting top rides. I don't begrudge her sponsorships, but I also don't necessarily agree that she deserves top equipment and attention based upon her results so far after 6 years or so. For example, a race driver like Dan Wheldon who is faster and better than Danica and won the Indy 500 this year can't even get a ride in the full Indy Series this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is annoying and confusing
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The difference between top level pros (and she's one) racing ovals or not and top level club racers large. Someone used to drive at the front at 190mph has reflexes and a touch that a top club racer simply wot have. My 2 cents.
Maybe so, but you sound like a first rate road racer to me and could probably give many of the oval specialists a run for their money in equal equipment on a road course. I've seen some very talented road racers at Porsche club events and they do it all unlike some of the "professionals" who pretty much climb into car and dictate what they want. Put a top professional oval specialist like Danica and top club racer into identical GT3 cup cars on road track they know equally well and I doubt if there would be much difference at all in lap times or a race of 50 laps or so.
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I completely agree. The very best drivers most of us see at our local track are not even close to the level of the drivers in IRL, ALMS, NASCAR, Grand-Am, F1,.... Given enough time and money, some of them might be able to get to that level,... if they had started 20 years ago with enough time and money.
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I completely agree. The very best drivers most of us see at our local track are not even close to the level of the drivers in IRL, ALMS, NASCAR, Grand-Am, F1,.... Given enough time and money, some of them might be able to get to that level,... if they had started 20 years ago with enough time and money.
So now let's take a mid pack Indy driver or NASCAR driver like Danica or some other oval racer of same ability and put them in another GT3 cup car that is as equal to Baum's as possible and put them on same course in same race that day. How much faster would the pro be? .5 seconds/lap? .2 seconds/lap? I have the feeling Baum could have turned it up a notch if needed and probably turned a lap under 1.36, but he really wasn't pushed much if at all, and there were a few other fast cars out there. So how much faster would a top pro be on that course that day than Baum in same equipment? I know that a top Porsche factory driver could probably pull some more speed out of that cup car, but they drive those cup cars for a living. And I know the top LeMans Series racers are top notch road course racers. Btw, I've watched the NASCAR racers on the few road courses they go to and many really struggle big time. They don't look comfortable at all. I'll tell you, club racer Baum is one comfortable road racer.