So, by your answer, if the driver isn’t finishing number one on a consistent basis, they’re no good?
She remained very competitive all last season, and for some very good drivers, that’s the most any real fan can ask for.
She’s an outstanding marketing tool for auto racing, a bonus for IRL, a sport that’s slowly fading. Why would you fault her? A beautiful woman doing 200+? It’s not like she doesn’t challenge her opponents. She makes lots of top 10’s.
NASCAR is a civilized demolition derby, far slower than IRL. F1? If you’re not one of the top three teams, your chances of winning a race are zilch. BORING! Le Mans is too damned long. I have a bad case of ADD, I can’t do more than 3 hours.
Because she has a prima Donna attitude with an under-study performance record. She really got under my skin when she...
A) Called Eddie Cheever an idiot on national television (Cheever's forgotten more about racing than Patrick knows) and
B)Got in the face of Ryan Briscoe. Had she been a man, she probably, definitely been knocked on her a$$.
She get preferential treatment precisely because she's a woman, and not because she's a great driver. So far, she's a journeyman driver, at best.
And by the way, before you go running down NASCAR - there's been more than a few drivers that have tried to move from IRL (or other open wheel) to NASCAR, and almost all have been a bust.
Tony Stewart is the lone exception. Montoya had a decent rookie season but has been very vanilla since. Sam Hornish, although an IRL phenom has been disappointing in NASCAR - Simply stated, NASCAR is a whole lot harder than it looks.