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Topic: Danica Patrick finishes
eighth in Daytona 500 |
Danica Patrick finishes
eighth in Daytona 500
USA Today, by Jeff Gluck
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Original Article
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 2/24/2013 5:01:07 PM
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| Daytona Beach, Fla. - Danica Patrick finished eighth in the Daytona 500 on Sunday. She appeared to check up on the final lap when a crash erupted behind her. NASCAR did not throw a caution flag. "You needed a hole. You needed people to help you out," she said. "I had a feeling I was going to get freight-trained (if I went low)." Jimmie Johnson won the race. Patrick led a lap at the Daytona 500, not quite halfway through the 200-lap event. She ran in the top 10 most of the day, and was running third toward the end of the race. Patrick, the first woman to ever win the pole for a Sprint Cup Series race,
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Comments:
Finishing in the top ten is a good thing.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
janylou, 2/24/2013 5:14:59 PM (No. 9193915)
Good job, Danica. Great job, Jimmie!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 2/24/2013 5:20:27 PM (No. 9193919)
Soo o o ... Finishing eighth garners a headline. Hmmm.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bullhead, 2/24/2013 5:20:57 PM (No. 9193920)
Who is Dan Icapatrick?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
horacer, 2/24/2013 5:21:01 PM (No. 9193921)
She led for four or five laps. I don´t watch NASCAR, but I tuned in to watch Patrick.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
noddy, 2/24/2013 5:26:15 PM (No. 9193928)
I watched part of this. They could rename it the Nerves of Steel 500. Talk about tailgating. Danica - you done good.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ersatzluci, 2/24/2013 5:44:09 PM (No. 9193950)
She went from 3rd to 8th on the last lap. I don´t call that good. She was in the #1 car and finished 8th by being lucky avoiding some nasty crashes. Again, not that good.
NASCAR itself is boring...boring...boring these days. I was mostly watching bowling with an occasional flip back to the race to see if there were any more crashes. Bowling was better, IMO.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
loosecannon1, 2/24/2013 5:54:18 PM (No. 9193969)
Danica was fantastic. She didn´t get a lot of help, which every driver knows is necessary to win a race. She electrified the crowd, and I imagine the TV ratings too. All the haters who like NASCAR but not her ought to wake up. She is going to make your favorite sport more popular than ever. Way to go, Danica!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/24/2013 5:55:34 PM (No. 9193971)
Can´t wait for the F1 season to start.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/24/2013 6:09:02 PM (No. 9193987)
You go girl.
Today was a day of real accomplishments.
NASCAR
Match Play Golf
and then tonight the gypsies tramps and thieves will trample the red carpet.
The first two events of the day were worthy of real America.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 2/24/2013 6:41:56 PM (No. 9194025)
It was a surprisingly incident-free race. It seemed to me that the drivers were keeping their distance from each other due to the new car designs. It also appeared to me that, in the last lap, Danica was intentionally blocked to push her back to 8th. WHen they interviewed her, I could tell she wanted to complain about it, but held back. Gotta give her credit for biting her lip on that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 2/24/2013 6:43:46 PM (No. 9194027)
Everyone in a restrictor plate race gets shuffled back. Danica got shuffled at a bad time, the end of the race. Otherwise she drove very well, even leading for a lap, something a lot of drivers would like to have done. Good Job Danica!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
yuban, 2/24/2013 6:55:13 PM (No. 9194038)
Yawn
Replies like Yawn, So what? and Who cares? are not acceptable responses on this site. Use them and get blocked. If you don´t care why are you here? LComStaff
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Keekng, 2/24/2013 7:32:33 PM (No. 9194077)
Good point, #10, tonight is reruns at our house.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
srhcb, 2/24/2013 8:00:35 PM (No. 9194106)
Who finished 8th last year?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 2/24/2013 8:03:25 PM (No. 9194109)
Danica went from 3rd to 8th in the last 10 seconds of the race. How is that possible?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
TheGrandWahzoo, 2/24/2013 8:07:45 PM (No. 9194113)
Danica went from 3rd to 8th in the last 10 seconds of the race. How is that possible?
I don´t know? Maybe because 5 drivers past her?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TheGrandWahzoo, 2/24/2013 8:08:19 PM (No. 9194115)
past=passed
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TheMom, 2/24/2013 8:41:45 PM (No. 9194145)
Danica did a great job today, and proved herself as a driver, rather than just a woman. Yes, it was a day of historic firsts for women in NASCAR, but now it´s time to move off of her gender and her love life, and let her do her job.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 2/24/2013 9:47:19 PM (No. 9194189)
Thank you, #7 and #18. If not simply for her gender, there would have been no story at all for any racer who fell from #3 to #8 in the blink of an eye.
What the story doesn´t say is that the final 5 laps began after a yellow flag, so it was anybody´s race. That she fell back so quickly means only one thing: SHE WAS SCHOOLED.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 2/24/2013 10:28:15 PM (No. 9194233)
A big day for Danica Patrick. It´s unfortunate that yesterday´s wreck overshadowed today´s festivities a bit BUT the drivers were magnificent. I don´t see much to this sport but I know I am in the minority. I just admire the guts of those drivers !!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
god of irony, 2/24/2013 10:43:39 PM (No. 9194248)
Let´s see celebrate Danica for doing what no other woman has ever done or join the he man, women hating club tossing out cave man opinions from their living room. BTW, it was very obvious that no one was willing to team up with her today.
My apologies to anyone that may have posted here that finished 7th or better in the race today.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 2/24/2013 11:00:22 PM (No. 9194260)
If the men refused to perform behaviour for her during the race that they would normally perform for a male driver, then sounds like the men need to be taken to the woodshed, not Danica being criticized by ignorant posters.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
montanabound, 2/25/2013 1:09:31 AM (No. 9194336)
I knew that would be the headline.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
earlybird, 2/25/2013 9:46:53 AM (No. 9194759)
Finishing in the top 8 was very good. Finishing this race is pretty special in itself. Attrition takes its toll.
The resident misogynists always have to slam her. She´ll keep keepin´ on. Maybe someday she will have the support that the male drivers have.
Other racers know she is really quite good. A smart driver.
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