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Lexington, Ohio- Not again! Yep, another pit incident for Danica Patrick.
If there wasn't enough going on Saturday with pit fires, heated qualifying and the American LeMans Series race, Patrick evidently found time after practice for yet another driver confrontation, this time with backmarker Milka Duno.
The Venezuelan driver is consistently one of the slowest in the field. And on a tight circuit like Mid-Ohio, lack of speed is a big problem. Duno qualified last in the 26-car field at 112.477 mph, nearly 3 mph slower than No. 25. Just ahead in 20th place was Patrick at 118.910 mph. Advertisement
The incident, taped by a Duno fan, shows Patrick arriving at Duno's pit to apparently question Duno. Several times Duno seems to be telling Patrick to leave, even as Patrick seems far from confrontational. Twice, Duno throws a towel toward Patrick and once Duno emphatically points for Patrick to leave.
Duno later told the Indianapolis Star, "She can push the guys because they cannot do anything to her," she said. "But she cannot push me. I know if somebody pushes me, and finds my bad side, they are going to get a problem."
Patrick then went out and put on a strong performance, rising from 20th to finish 12th. Duno finished 23rd.
Strange but true:
Jonny Reid had the Indy Lights race at Mid-Ohio won easily. He was on point for 17 of the 20 laps and was in the lead when the race went yellow on the final lap. But instead of taking the checkered flag, Reid went into the pits, allowing James Davison to inherit a victory he led for less than a half-mile.
"I'm really disappointed," Reid said afterward. "There is really no excuse for it. Basically, the yellow came out so I thought the race was over and it was done. I have never had a race finish under yellow like that before and it just caught me off. I wasn't thinking."
Davison was just as surprised.
"I was thinking, 'Has he made a mistake?' " Davison said. "I'm pretty sure we haven't taken the checkered flag, and we need to take it."
Reid ended up ninth.
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Every time it’s always some one else’s fault with her, what a drama queen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUd6n1Vti8
Women drivers...what do ya expect?
LOL! They should just text message each other while they’re driving.
That ain’t no fer-real catfight. I wanna see har pullin’, clothes rippin’, bitin’, scratchin’ and screamin’.
That CITGO logo will look really good on a crushed, rolled car. And Milka Duno looks like just the person to do it!
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Any indy-car racefans out there? Answer me this: Are pit confrontations any more commonplace now than they were years ago? Danica, in particular, seems to make it a habit of confronting people. Is this a case of the Indy-car crowd emulating what they see in NASCAR?
I remember AJ Foyt getting in peoples’ grilles on occasion, but that was a long time ago & AJ was kinda unique in that regard.