Danica 'dead set' on move to F1

[Alfa Fan]

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/news ... to_f1.html

IndyCar's latest new winner Danica Patrick has dismissed criticism from a former world champion that she is not good enough for Formula 1, by insisting she is ‘dead set' on making the move into the top flight in the future.

LOL is my only response. She wins one IndyCar race of how many 100 on fuel mileage on an oval and now she's ready for F1?

[harvick#1]

news flash, those guys won't lay down for Danica, she'll get eaten alive, even if she was in a Ferrari or Mclaren.

shes not even really good on road/street courses, mid pack driver at best.

and with no TC and more power, she would lose it alot

[seppefan]

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/news/162648-0/danica_'dead_set'_on_move_to_f1.html

IndyCar's latest new winner Danica Patrick has dismissed criticism from a former world champion that she is not good enough for Formula 1, by insisting she is ‘dead set' on making the move into the top flight in the future.

LOL is my only response. She wins one IndyCar race of how many 100 on fuel mileage on an oval and now she's ready for F1?

She also said she would look at NASCAR......

[DavePI2]

as silly as she sounds, is she any less credible the marco? He is still making the same mistakes two years later. Still I agree if she thinks she will ever be ready she is dreaming.

David

[beachbum]

One of the funniest articles I have read in some time. One win and she thinks she is the next World Champion.

[bblocker68]

If she couldn't win in Toyota Atlantics, then she has no chance in F1. She has no chance in GP2. She'd be lucky to win in F3.

Good Lord, what a joke.

[BenRoethig]

Well, she'd definitely fit in when it comes to whining. Ability, on the other hand might be a little suspect.

[D28]

It might be interesting at this point to compare DP results to those of other women drivers. Desire Wilson (South Africa) became the first and so far only F1 winner, in the 1980 Brands Hatch race of the British Formula 1 Series. She also shared a win in World Prototypes in the same year with Alain DeCadenet at Monza and Silverstone. Based on these results she would have to be ranked the most sucessful women thus far.Lella Lombardi (Italy) won the respect of her peers in the highly competitive American F 5000 series in the 1970s. She also competed in F1 on merit, becoming the only women to score World championship points with a sixth at the shortened 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Katherine Legge (England), who I would rate above DP, won 3 Formula Atlantic races in 2005. Finally Simona DeSilvestro (Switzerland) won the Long Beach F Atlantic last week end. Probably the real story involved two women winning professional open wheel races on the same week-end. There may be wins for other women I am not familiar with.To talk of a F1 drive for DP based on her current record is wildly optomistic.

[Chaparral66]

A winner on an oval does not an F1 driver make. But nothing is impossible. Still, she needs a helluva lot more seat time on roadcourses before even being able to think about F1's development series, let alone F1. Seabass is in F1 because he was winning so much, and always a threat to win. A win is a win, I refuse to use fuel mileage to take away from her victory, but she'll need many more wins turning both right and left before Our Good Friend Bernie E. will stop laughing enough to seriously consider advocating for a test that is other than a publicity stunt.

[Jag_Warrior]

Guys, stop making jokes! This isn't funny!!! A pal of mine used to work with the D.A.R.E. program (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). And according to him, one of the first things that you look for is the kid becoming detached from reality. Danica doesn't deserve our scorn and laughter at a time like this. She deserves our help! I suggest we arrange some sort of group intervention.

But I fear that it may be too late for "The Danica". We can see her, but she may be too far gone to reach. She seems to be in a world where a career which has but one professional win gets the driver a seat in Formula One or NASCAR. Another young mind lost to "the stuff".

So, as a libertarian, all I can say is, smoke it if it makes ya feel good, Danica.