Posted on 04/24/2008 10:43:23 AM PDT by PercivalWalks
Ahhh... the Barack Obama whining comes to the world of sports. If you can’t deal with losing to a girl... then don’t play the game!
Added weight makes sense to me. That’s how it’s done in horse racing.
I’ld be more than happy to follow Danica around for a few laps. :-)
Yeah, but keep this up and all the drivers will look like horse jockeys.
So now we have a sport that women have a built in advantage... what would the feminists say about that?
On one hand, they equalize weights between Jockeys for horse races.
On the other hand, if the other teams feel that a woman driver is an advanage, they can get their own women drivers.
That’s definitely a SEXIST rule. What about upper body strength advantage that Men have?
LANCE ARMSTRONG a great American Sports Hero and Hero in general, his BIGGEST advantage comes from being in great shape and essentially being lighter.
Time and again he took his leads in the Mountains during Tour De France. Its much easier for a rider to gain elevation when he is NOT fighting his own weight.
Should he have made to put weight on his bike to give fair advantage to other cyclists?
Little *icks can’t handle a real woman.
What did the article say? I was too busy looking at the pics.
Tell me this - why aren’t the best (i.e. fastest) drivers all built like jockeys, if being underweight is such an advantage?
what article?
And then there will be Congressional hearings.
Iwas such a advantage, she would be the Tiger Woods of racing, gettng win after win! This is her 1st win in 2 or 3 years
if being underweight is an advantage, they should hire me.
y’all should check this one out :)
Before each race each fully fueled car should be driven by its fully equipped driver onto a scale and weighed. Each car should then have weights added to it to make it weigh the same as the heaviest car/driver combination in the field. After that, start the race...
When you PERK, you win?
Anyone involved with racing for any length of time should be aware that a number of competitive series and even many local tracks use ‘wet weight’ to determine the minimum weight rule - that generally includes all fluids, a full tank of fuel and the driver.
This is nothing new and has been a contentious issue in rules management for many many years in multiple forms of racing.
I would love to see Danica try her hand at NASCAR racing, say down in the Truck Series at first. I think she’s got enough game to compete, maybe even at the Cup level, but the telephone books she’d have to sit on to peer out over the windshield might prove a disadvantage...
}:-)4
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