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.
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 ???