What was Danica Patrick's signature moment in the Cup Series?

Chewbaccer · Apr 26, 2020

There's two that come to mind that I have a hard time choosing between:

Or this one

Schmoopy1000 · Apr 27, 2020

Chewbaccer said:
There's two that come to mind that I have a hard time choosing between:

Or this one

I would listen to her when she was in the Busch Series. She was always dumb in a stock car.
She was explaining to to her CC what the car was doing in the corners. I was talking to my son & told him that she was driving the car to hard into the corners & had to back up the corners & not just dive into them & that would probably fix most of her handling issues. Funny thing is a few laps later while she was bitching (she was always bitching) her CC came on & told her basically that very thing. Was explaining to her how to enter the corners & she freaked out on him & told him to just fix the car instead of trying to change how she drives. Told him to fix it so she can drive the car the way she wanted. LOL

This is Danica's racing IQ in a nutshell. In Cup series or any stock car. Such a waste of a seat.
Top funded Race car & she never a top 5 in her entire career.

wildturkey · Apr 27, 2020

Schmoopy1000 said:
I would listen to her when she was in the Busch Series. She was always dumb in a stock car.
She was explaining to to her CC what the car was doing in the corners. I was talking to my son & told him that she was driving the car to hard into the corners & had to back up the corners & not just dive into them & that would probably fix most of her handling issues. Funny thing is a few laps later while she was bitching (she was always bitching) her CC came on & told her basically that very thing. Was explaining to her how to enter the corners & she freaked out on him & told him to just fix the car instead of trying to change how she drives. Told him to fix it so she can drive the car the way she wanted. LOL

This is Danica's racing IQ in a nutshell. In Cup series or any stock car. Such a waste of a seat.
Top funded Race car & she never a top 5 in her entire career.

She never understood the downforce isn't there in a stock car the way it is open wheel. She can drive it hard in open wheels and the car will basically stick thru aero and other mechanical and electronic features (this is a very rough generalization). There's a lot more going on from an engineering standpoint keeping the car to the ground. That isn't to say the driver doesn't play a big role as well, I'm just saying its quite a bit different. She never grasped that concept of the difference in stock cars. She's not the only one either. All the open wheel drivers struggle making that adjustment. Difference was she wasn't willing to put in the seat time necessary to get that feel and adjust. She should have been running the tandem lower series race during the Cup weekend every single week.

Schmoopy1000 · Apr 28, 2020

wildturkey said:
She never understood the downforce isn't there in a stock car the way it is open wheel. She can drive it hard in open wheels and the car will basically stick thru aero and other mechanical and electronic features (this is a very rough generalization). There's a lot more going on from an engineering standpoint keeping the car to the ground. That isn't to say the driver doesn't play a big role as well, I'm just saying its quite a bit different. She never grasped that concept of the difference in stock cars. She's not the only one either. All the open wheel drivers struggle making that adjustment. Difference was she wasn't willing to put in the seat time necessary to get that feel and adjust. She should have been running the tandem lower series race during the Cup weekend every single week.

Exactly.
but she was flat out too stubborn to be helped. You got decades of experience talking to you & your answer is. No. you are wrong. This is how it is. She was literally like a child.

Also with open wheel cars. Not only do you have all the tech & aero helping. You have twice the tire & half the weight. or looking at it from a stock car point of view.
Half the tire & twice the weight.

UVA_Guy81 · Apr 28, 2020

Schmoopy1000 said:
Exactly.
but she was flat out too stubborn to be helped. You got decades of experience talking to you & your answer is. No. you are wrong. This is how it is. She was literally like a child.

Also with open wheel cars. Not only do you have all the tech & aero helping. You have twice the tire & half the weight. or looking at it from a stock car point of view.
Half the tire & twice the weight.

You would've thought that something would've rubbed off on her for all the years that she was there, with all the experienced people that they had at the time at SHR. But she's what you get when you are more worried about sponsorship money than caring about winning races.

Chewbaccer · Apr 28, 2020

UVA_Guy81 said:
You would've thought that something would've rubbed off on her for all the years that she was there, with all the experienced people that they had at the time at SHR. But she's what you get when you are more worried about sponsorship money than caring about winning races.

Yeah, you’d think she would have tried to learn from the 3 champions she was teammates with.

You’re teammates with a HOFer, a HOF lock and a borderline HOFer and you learn nothing

Hitman Hart · Apr 30, 2020

top comment from the retaliation video

its sad, first woman in modern nascar and she has a temper that rivals kyle and kurt, and skills rivaling a person with a severe head injury

LOL

Chewbaccer · May 1, 2020

Hitman Hart said:
top comment from the retaliation video

LOL

That's hilarious, but not factually correct. Shawna Robinson ran some races in the early 2000's.

Rod Freakin' Dangerfield · May 1, 2020

The time she blew all the top 10 finishers following the Daytona 500.

Hitman Hart · May 1, 2020

Chewbaccer said:
That's hilarious, but not factually correct. Shawna Robinson ran some races in the early 2000's.

lol, i actually remember her

her car number was #49 if i recall correctly

Chewbaccer · May 1, 2020

Hitman Hart said:
lol, i actually remember her

her car number was #49 if i recall correctly

That sounds right. I remember her too.

Hailee Deegan is 18 years old and has won a few regional lower series races (K&N East or West). She probably has the most potential of being something in NASCAR of any female ever.

douggie · May 1, 2020

What was Danica Patrick's signature moment in the Cup Series?

she was comfortable behind the wheel-

Hitman Hart · May 1, 2020

douggie said:
What was Danica Patrick's signature moment in the Cup Series?

View attachment 240619 she was comfortable behind the wheel-View attachment 240621

i believe her ex-girlfriend is the QB for the Green Bay Packers

Schmoopy1000 · May 1, 2020

Johanna Long had more skill than Danica in a stock car, but she didnt have the look. (So never got the chances Princess got)

She raced for a part time team (same time as Danica) in the busch series. Still remember her passing Denny for 4th place (believe at Richmond) & Denny coming on the radio & saying he should just retire now LOL

Schmoopy1000 · May 15, 2020

Schmoopy1000 · May 15, 2020

When you boo me, it hurts my feelings - Danica

Markwassillylaugher · May 17, 2020

she was banging Steinhouse.

tabascojet · May 20, 2020

Chewbaccer said:
There's two that come to mind that I have a hard time choosing between:

Or this one

woman driver.... :dhd:

Yankee Traveler · Jun 16, 2020

I liked her but I would have liked her more if she'd had a Fredrick's of Hollywood sponsorship

Kace-1 · Jun 16, 2020

Daytona 500 Pole with a Top 10 finish and a P4 in the Daytona Clash. 7 Top 10s ain't bad either considering she basically flung herself into unfamiliar territory. At the Sportsman level, she was the first woman to finish Top 10 in points which was also the same season Johanna Long finished in the Top 15.

I think for Patrick, most of her success is centered around IndyCar with the win and numerous Top 10 points finishes.

If we're looking at this purely from the perspective of women in racing, specifically NASCAR, Patrick was a step forward, but it's going to take someone like Hailie Deegan who's been raised into stock car racing from adolescence to advance things a lot further.

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