We all know Danica Patrick is an attractive woman.
She looks good in a swimsuit. She knows she looks good in a swimsuit. Sports Illustrated knows she looks good in a swimsuit, (even though the magazine thought she looked better with her tattoo airbrushed away) and both the IndyCar series and Patrick are more than happy to take advantage of her appearance.
Throw all that out, and ask yourself if you’re still a fan. Because frankly I’m starting to think if Patrick wasn’t pretty — if she looked like, say, Jimmy Spencer in drag — she would simply be considered a brat by a lot of folks who take open wheel racing seriously.
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No doubt she has talent. Despite the looks of a model, she possesses skills behind the wheel and I applaud her for that. And with IndyCar racing at an all-time low in terms of popularity, she keeps the circuit in the news.
Still, her act is wearing thin.
You’ll recall that she once gave Dan Wheldon a push and tried to chase down Ryan Briscoe following the Indianapolis 500.
She’s so aggressive that Scott Dixon has called her a “menace” on the track.
I don’t doubt that she’s committed her racing career, and if she’s not worried about exploiting herself then we certainly don’t have to worry about it for her.
However, she has to realize that by marketing herself as a sex symbol, the cheers she’s hearing probably aren’t for her driving prowess. When fans talk about her body of work, it has nothing to do with driving.
If Patrick really wants to make more history in the IndyCar series, she should lead more laps, win more races and act like she belongs.
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