Danica Patrick Penalized For Being Too Small
Mar 26, 2008
An Indy Racing League rule change has Danica Patrick feeling as if she’ll be penalized for being petite — which the popular driver said wouldn’t happen in other sports. “If someone’s going to take the hit it’s going to be me, ” Patrick said Thursday. “It’s disappointing the league decided to do that. In so many other sports, athletes don’t get penalized for being too strong, or too tall or too fast.
“(It’s) just your God-given stature is being penalized. What am I going to do, though? It’s not my decision. That’s the people higher up (who) made their bed, and they’ve got to lay in it. ”
“I just follow the rules, ” she said. “Maybe I’ll get more specific reasons somewhere down the line …” Patrick hopes to put the issue behind her by winning the season-opening Gainsco 300 at Homestead Miami Speedway “Let’s just do that, ” she said with a laugh, “and then I’ll say, ‘Why didn’t you guys do this years ago? ’ ”
