[fabsroman]

Billy,

Classic understood my point in paragraph #4. Personally, I could have cared less about Indy Car racing or Formula 1 racing. I used to watch the stuff when I was a kid, but not much recently. However, I have been watching a little bit of NASCAR lately including the truck series. The only reason I followed this is because it was all over the internet and people happened to be talking about (i.e., my dad, my brothers, my future mother in-law).

My point about other people losing their rides if they didn't perform was to show that other drivers could have been under immense pressure too, not just Danica Patrick. Other drivers might have had to deal with much more pressure than Danica, but you congratulate her for handling the pressure well. However, only her media induced pressure was advertized because it made the story all the better. Were there any other rookie drivers in the Indy 500? How come we haven't heard about them? Then again, maybe there weren't any.

What I hate is all the press that women get when they are trying to enter the men's category. A Navy fighter pilot was pushed through flight school because the Navy was under pressure to have women fighter pilots. Guess what she did with her F-14 the first time off the carrier? She stalled the plane and both her and her REO had to eject as the plane was spinning and falling. The REO ejected while the plane was at a 90 degree angle to the water and he skipped along it for a little while. The female pilot ejected while the plane was at a 180 degrees to the horizon and she ejected straight into the water. Needless to say, she didn't live.

As I said earlier, women are better than men at certain things and it looks like car racing might be one of them since women in general are lighter than men. I am all for having no more womens leagues and combining all the sports into a single one. Mia Hamm should play with all the guys. There shouldn't be any women's basketball league, etc. If women want to race cars, they should have their own league so there will be no squacking about an unfair advantage. They want their own leagues when it suits them, but not in this case. Then again, with the limited number of fans that follow Indy Cars nowadays, they probably couldn't generate enough interest for a female circuit. How come Danica couldn't race in the NASCAR series which is much more popular? Is that just not her type of racing or is it that she isn't good enough. I also realize that most of the Indy Car drivers are foreigners, but most, if not all, of the NASCAR drivers are American.

What I find hilarious is that you posted only about Danica Patrick and didn't congratulate the winner of the Indy 500. So be it. Yes, Danica is a great driver, but does she deserve all this press for finishing 4th in the Indy 500? NO. Did she deserve all the press she received before the start of the race? DEFINITELY NOT.

Hell, I cannot even remember the name of the winner now. I can only remember that Michael Andretti was the team owner.