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Danica doesn't have an excuse for not being good on road/street courses, either. It's all she raced until she started in Indycar in 2005. Now revisionist history has conveniently overlooked that little fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by TURN3
Simona, on the other hand, just started running ovals last year.
Define "Good qualifying attempt" please. Ana qualifies 11th which is the fastest female driver and ahead of the princess who could only qualify 15th. That's a "Good qualifying attempt" for me. Your "thinking" has absolutely no credibility here.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan
I think they will be running a "Bitza". Bits of this, bits of that. "Janet" is deceased, and "Pork Chop" has been crashed and rebuilt so many times it can't be that very competitive. But it would be very hard to justify a new(er) chassis this far in the season with all new stuff coming in 2012.Quote:
Originally Posted by TURN3
Stopped clock maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by TURN3
The weather scares me a bit today, rain.
Everyone, I am suprised that Danica hasnt been up there in the front rows on the ovals. She is awesome on them but for some reason, Andretti Autosport has been struggling on the qualifying so Im hoping for the remainder of the season that they can improve.
Andretti is not getting the job done but neither is Danica (at this stage of here career he should have the ability to help move the team in the right direction). I think her head is more on the future and her "brand" than on being a top notch race car driver (Indy or otherwise).... She has shown on numerous occasions that she has the underlying talent - but (especially lately) she has not shown the drive/desire/commitment to be a consistent front-runner / winner.... If she can find her racing mojo your predictions might not be so out-there, but she needs to get to it, otherwise she is going to be an also ran/ has-been in Indycars and a never was in NASCAR..... That being said, if she is happier being a media darling/sex symbol who has a cool job but is clearly not the best out there (think Dale Jr.) than that is fine. - You just need the change your expectations from expecting her to do well each week to being pleasantly surprised when she has a good race and looking forward to her next SI swimsuit pose more than her next podium finish..... (unlike some, I will not hold that against her as a person - it is a valid and smart decision - but it does diminish her as a pure race driver...)Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan
Quality/depth of the field might just have something to do with it...
She is simply was never that "great" ..... Perhaps the time has come to relize the difference between a driver and racers
She has been awesome ON OCCASION on ovals. Not so much anymore. Any awesomeness in the past couple years has been a combination of excellent pit crew work and her once/twice a year fit of red haze. On a regular basis? No.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan
I agree with Chris - all she's doing now is phoning it in until she moves on. Some of the fault does rest with AA with their musical-chairs change of personnel on what seems to be a weekly basis. But that doesn't fully explain her performance last year, either. I also find it interesting in looking over the past years since 2005, she starts with a team that's at the top, or very near the top, and then while she's there the team just disintegrates. Why is that?
When someone like Danica puts herself out there as being a top racer (and the media didn't do it all - she started the media hype at the beginning and has reaped what she sowed), then that is what is expected of her by the racing fans. For racing fans, she disappoints. Then, her fanicas all blame it on the media. It's not all the fault of the media. Someone is sending out the press releases, someone is approving those press releases, and if Danica has that little control over her career, her agents, and her managers, she's definitely not as smart and savvy as some people like to make her out to be. Do the agents and managers work for her (as they should be) or does she work for them?
No surprise here. The former success you speak of is in the distant past and was against a small, shallow, weakened IRL field prior to Cart team mergers into series. But the team is progressively getting worse since MA took it over from the Greens. They have gone from a top team to mediocre (or less). Barely qualified for the 500 this year, had to buy one of their drivers into it. Out-qualified and out-ran by a number of smaller teams with much limited resources. No, AR is NOT a top team and the constant is Mike and the people he has either driven away or kept.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan
Furthermore the princess's style has always been to be consistent albeit 2-3 mph behind the leaders and hope for lucky pit strategy or fuel windows to move up the field. NEVER has she been a leader on speed alone - NEVER.
In the last two years I have observed she has become even more conservative in trying to finish as I think she lacks confidence at speed and may be afraid (who knows but her...)... So she runs very high down-force on the car whatever the reason. This causes the car to go like a slot car, slow and steady, even slower than previous years. The unintended consequence is that high downforce means even poorer mileage, so the idea of winning on mileage and pit/fuel windows is also no longer viable... Agreed she is just phoning it in until she gets over to the taxicabs... where her record will be even worse because high downforce tight Nascars are oh so much slower than loose cars, only loose cars win over there.
PS and if she was ugly and didn't bare (most) of it all in swimsuit issues, danicamania would have been dead a looooong time ago, especially given her surly and prickly personality. Its clear she's only in it for the money and endorsements and winning is well beyond secondary...
I cannot wait until she goes over to Nascar full time and you take your posting crapola full time over to Nascar boards.. I guarantee you these experienced and knowledgeable Nascar fans and posters will not put up with you blind-faith BS for very long.
PPS- Anybody seen or heard of Anna Kournakova lately ???