Land Jet

Kyle Petty says Danika will never be a race car driver.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...speed/2465807/

GuyIncognito

i think she doesn't want, and doesn't need, to be a race car driver when she can make $20mm/year running around in 35th.

morsini

Funny, think I saw her on TV driving a race car.

Veloce Raptor

Kyle Petty?

LMFAO...

Let's ask RICHARD Petty...

AudiOn19s

Kyle did at least admit in the same article that he wasn't worth a damn behind the wheel either....so at least he's being brutally honest.

mrbill_fl

talk about the pot calling the kettle.


-I wish I could run 35th in sprint cup... and get paid to do it - and so does Kyle..



ps: ever shake Richards hand? He's got a fr-king vice. don't do it!

DC640

Her job is great. Market the sport, get endorsements, get publicity, get paid crap load despite her performance. Show some skin.. get paid more. perfect job.Do this for few more years, and retire and no one will remember what car she drove cuz it wont matter.

996TWINS

When she retires I will have no reason to go to the PEAK booth again at SEMA to say hello.

ltc

Obviously Kyle's opinion should be dismissed with extreme prejudice.
His opinion would only matter if he were a better race car driver than anyone else in this forum, which even a blind man can see he is not.
Therefore, the expert opinions of the real drovers in this forum prevail.
Next topic please.

Veloce Raptor

Well, gosh, I think Dale Jr is a better racer than Kyle ever was...and he says Kyle is wrong.

Meanwhile, Larry STILL can't get any dates...

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-med...a-patrick.html

ltc

OK, let's take a few moments and review Junior's comments...

SPARTA, Ky. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he disagrees with Kyle Petty’s assessment of Danica Patrick as a race car driver, coming to the defense of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rookie of the year candidate Friday at Kentucky Speedway.

Patrick, who competes for Stewart-Haas Racing, drove for Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports team in the Nationwide Series full-time last season while running a limited Cup schedule for SHR. She ran a limited Nationwide schedule with JRM from 2010-11 while making the transition from IndyCar to NASCAR.

“I think she’s a tough competitor,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “She works really hard at what she does. She has run some really good races. [U]On every occasion she’s outrunning several guys out on the circuitU]. If she was not able to compete and not able to run minimum speed or finishing in last place every week, I think you might be able to say Kyle has an argument. But she’s out there running competitively, running strong on several accounts.”


In a piece that aired on NASCAR Race Hub on Thursday, Petty said Patrick was a “marketing machine,” but that the 31-year-old was “not a race car driver.”

“Danica has been the perfect example of somebody who can qualify better than what she runs,” Petty said. “She can go fast, but she can’t race. I think she’s come a long way, but she’s still not a race car driver. And I don’t think she’s ever going to be a race car driver.”

Patrick, 27th in points, became the first female to start on the pole for a Sprint Cup Series race earlier this year when she qualified No. 1 for the season-opening Daytona 500. She finished eighth in that race, her only top 10 thus far in 26 career Cup starts.

“I think she’s got a good opportunity … to keep competing and she just might surprise even Kyle Petty,” Earnhardt Jr. said.

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"On every occasion she’s outrunning several guys out on the circuit"
What exactly does that mean. It means as long as she is not running last and she is the only female driver, then by default, she is outrunning at least one guy on the circuit. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but we'll leave it alone for now.

“I think she’s got a good opportunity … to keep competing and she just might surprise even Kyle Petty,”
OK, so she is not driving for a backmarker/field filling NASCAR team. She is running for a decent team.
So given that level of funding and support, she JUST MIGHT surprise?
Again, not a ringing endorsement, he could have said she absolutely WILL surprise.

She is NASCAR's answer to the failed "Drive for Diversity" programme, a marketing prop, whose talent could simply never live up to the hype (not entirely her fault, but she doens't really do anything to "cool down" the flames of the hype.

But hey, she's a great spouse... no wait, scratch that......she looks good in a bikini.
And she's 27th in points ... again, outrunning a bunch of guys in the standings.

What's the odds on her "winning" Rookie of the Year?

ltc

P.S.
Getting a date is easy. It's by the hour, day, weekend or week.
(in the interest of full disclosure, I've never asked for more than a week)

Veloce Raptor

Sorry for your perpetual bitterness, bro

Jarez Mifkin

or Bobby Rahal...

Veloce Raptor

Zactly.

Funny to see a thread backfire...