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  • July 07, 2008 10:08 AM ET

Danica Patrick should be removed from the Drivers Seat

Frank Pentangelli (106-251-20) vs [The] Coach (97-18-5)
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Yesterday, If you didnt watch: She came out of her Pit box, spun the car out, then held the hammer down as she plowed into Dixons Pit Crew.

One of 2 things happened:

1. It was her time of month and she was bloated and emotional, so she decided if she cant beat them kill the pit crew.

2. She freaked out and hit the wrong pedal as she often does.

Either way she does not need to be on the track any longer. They fixed a race to give her a win and it didnt help their ratings one bit. Give it up. Park her for the safety of everyone else.

Maybe they should start a racing leage for females, that is if they can find officials and crew members so daring as to work it.


Yet another conspiracy theory huh Frank?
The Apollo 11 moonlanding was a government hoax
The shooter was on the grassy knoll
9-11 was another government plot
Elvis is still alive
and the IRL conspired to give Danica Patrick a win in Japan?

Why exactly would the IRL throw out the driver that brings THE most attention to the sport? Even when she screws up they get press they wouldn't normally get. She is a GOD send for a sport that the general public would otherwise ignore except on Memorial Day.

To give credit where credit is due, she is one of their TOP drivers as well.

She finished in the top 12 in points her rookie year, 9th her sophmore year, 7th her third year and is currently 7th this year.

In 58 starts she has 1 win, 9 top 5 finishes, 33 top 10 finishes and has 3.5 million dollars in career earnings. Not very many of her male counterparts can boast those stats.

Why not treat this incident the way it has been handled for misbehaving male drivers. Such an incident would get any other driver one or more of 3 things. A verbal warning, a fine or season points deducted.

Your chauvinistic reference to "her time of the month" explains your opinions.


Considering there are approx 6 competitive cars/race teams in the IRL field and Danica has one of them 7th in pts isnt so great. Lets look at the gap between her and the leader:

She is 131 pts out and the leader only has 351. That means she has 40% less pts than the leader. That is quite the gap.

There is no doubt they fixed the race. Everyone on the lead lap had to come in for fuel except her? I dont think so bub. It was fixed and the ratings didnt boost.

It is time to attempt to put a competitive driver in that car. She is a danger to herself and others on the track.

Answer me this: What happened yesterday?

She spun out coming from her pit box and she either tried to kill his crew by running them over or she freaked and mashed the throttle instead of the break. Then she made a lap under caution so the car was running, breaking, fueling, and turning fine. What happened yesterday? That is why she must be removed from the car.


Your stats are ALL incorrect.
Scott Dixon leads in points with 370 points
Danica has 236 and is 134 back however, Dixon is blowing EVERYBODY away, not just Danica. He leads the second place driver by 48 points and Danica is a mere 5 points out of 5th.

There are 47 race teams in the IRL, 22 of those have qualified for all 10 races. Even if you considered only those 22 "competitive" teams, she is in the top third.

She has apologized for the incident and admitted the error. She admitted she was too aggressive in trying to beat Hideki Mutoh out of the pits. In fact, the series points leader, Scott Dixon says he saw it and said that her car hit the slippery painted yellow line and the rear end flipped around.

In any case, this doesn't warrant banishment from the sport. This is a dangerous sport and the pit area is the most dangerous area.

It is a fact that every incident that Danica Patrick in which envolved is front page news and her performance, good or bad is subject to far more scrutiny than her peers because she is a woman. Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch of NASCAR have been gulity of some equally stupid and dangerous antics, do the get banished as well?


Qualifying to make a field and competing for wins is not the same thing. On the ovals there are 6 competitive race teams and Danica is one of them; however, she does not compete for wins unless for some strange reason the rest of the field comes in to pit and she dosent have to.

Stewart and Bush compete and win. Stewart and Bush have never done anything such as that. They have intentionally hit other cars on pit road in a controlled manner. They have not lost control of a car leaving the pit box and ran wide open into someone elses crew.

In your 3rd argument try to answer the following questions, If you cannot do that you should forfeit:

1. If someone is so unsafe they spin leaving the box, panic, and run into another crew while mistaking the gas for the break should they be allowed to continue to drive?

2. If someone is bested by their emotions (monthly emotions) and try to kill another crew should they be allowed to drive?

3. If you answered no to both the above questions (which everyone did) then what is your alternate explanation for what happened yesterday that would leave you to want her to remain on the track?


1. This question is irrelevant because it is based soley on your supposition. YOU ALLEGE that she panicked, mistook the gas for the brake, etc. YOU don't know ANY of this to be fact. In fact her peers saw the situation differently and they know a lot more about the situation that you do.

2. THis is a STUPID question as again, you feel the need to point out that she is a woman with a reference to her cycle. Do you know for a fact that she was menstruating or PMS? Are you one of those men that attribute every error or emotion a woman might have to PMS?

3. I attribute the incident to driver error. It happens all the time, I used to participate in the sport years ago.

Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch have both been fined and reprimanded for unsafe behavior on the track. They have BOTH been known to let their emotions get them into trouble and have put other drivers lives at risk. It doesn't matter if the unsafe maneuver is in the pits or on the track, it can still kill someone. In addition to those two, their have been several dirvers fined and docked points for reckless actions on the tracks.

Why do we ONLY ban Danica?

Because a woman is more successful than Frank?

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July 7, 2008  10:22 AM ET
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"as she often does"? You lost my vote with that one little phrase.

July 7, 2008  10:26 AM ET
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"as she often does"? You lost my vote with that one little phrase.

Gruden Again | 07/07/08, 10:22 AM
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freaks out and wrecks a car, there was nothing wrong with that car yesterday, she spun it then freaked out and laid the hammer down, either that or she tried to kill them

July 7, 2008  10:45 AM ET
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The time of the month remark was a little unecessary. your basically saying shes has a handicap as a driver cause shes a woman.

July 7, 2008  10:51 AM ET
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I didn't see it. Did she kill any of them this time?

July 7, 2008  10:51 AM ET
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no, but she came close, and one of his crew guys kicked crap back at her car, it was hilarious

July 7, 2008  11:01 AM ET
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Awesome. Maybe she was drunk.

July 7, 2008  11:14 AM ET
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hey 4 voters against me, can I get an explanation for what happened yesterday?

July 7, 2008  11:17 AM ET
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And where is your proof of this incident Frank? If it happened the way you described it "came out of her Pit box, spun the car out, then held the hammer down as she plowed into Dixons Pit Crew."

Then it should have been front page news everywhere.

July 7, 2008  11:23 AM ET
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July 7, 2008  11:38 AM ET
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honestly since no one follows voting "rules" anyway I am voting <------ I felt bad for Frank plus his comment abotu that time of the motnh was funny

July 7, 2008  11:40 AM ET
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And where is your proof of this incident Frank? If it happened the way you described it "came out of her Pit box, spun the car out, then held the hammer down as she plowed into Dixons Pit Crew."

Then it should have been front page news everywhere.

i B4 e: Hide and seek | 07/07/08, 11:17 AM
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well voters in a td should have some education of the incident, if you dont then stay out of the td

July 7, 2008  11:41 AM ET
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This is the incident:

Danica Patrick was involved in a spectacular pit road accident on lap 41 when she accelerated coming out of her pit stall and flew into the inside pit wall and into the stall of Dixon???s Target Chip Ganassi team, nearly striking some of Dixon???s crew who had just serviced Dixon???s car a few seconds earlier.

Following the incident, Patrick immediately threw her hands up in the air and was very apologetic and upset at herself, expressing so on the in-car radio as she sat in the car on pit road.

???Unfortunately during my final pit stop of the day, I hit a tire leaving the pit and the car locked up which caused me to hit the No. 9 pit,??? said Patrick. ???Fortunately I made no contact with anyone.???

July 7, 2008  11:43 AM ET
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Given that she hit a pit crew member back in May, I will say that there's mounting evidence that she is less than effective in handling her race car.

July 7, 2008  11:53 AM ET
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i actually agree with frank... i am not convinced her win was fixed however racing is a dangerous sport and she has shown more than once that she loses control of her vehicle... and i also think that she is there to help the ratings.... just because she has good races doesn't mean she is a safe driver. many drivers complain about he blocking them from passing which is not allowed...

July 7, 2008  11:58 AM ET
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do you remember when the shauna robinson girl started a winston cup race?? she was a lap down and wrecked dale jr, he griped on the radio and she never raced again, i think they fed her to the pigs from the 3rd hannibal lectar movie

July 7, 2008  12:10 PM ET
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Guys lose control of their cars all the time and don't get mentioned. Danica has a couple of incidents and you want her head on a spike.

July 7, 2008  12:10 PM ET
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Frank sitting her down would be a little to harsh but I do understand your point, its the second time this year she has ran over somebody and it may be a little more significant when she seriously hurts someone.
Her win at Motegi was not a conspiracy but pure luck, no skill involved.

Unfortunately Coach makes a better argument but if you put any other driver in AGRs equipment they probably would perform just as good as she does or even better.

July 7, 2008  12:14 PM ET
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well voters in a td should have some education of the incident, if you dont then stay out of the td

Frank Pentangelli RIP Carlin

I sorry Frank. I ain't got me no edgakayshun. Maybe yoo know a teck skool I kin go too

July 7, 2008  12:22 PM ET
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Frank? I don't know. You surprise me with some of your chauvinistic comments at times; however, I "almost" agree with you that if she can't control the CAR then she should be limited, if not banned.

 
July 7, 2008  12:24 PM ET
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I can't believe I'm voting for Frank!

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