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Danica Patrick questions need for NASCAR diversity program
Fox News Online ^ | Oct. 27, 2014 | Fox News

Posted on 10/27/2014 7:17:04 PM PDT by rabidralph

Danica Patrick has revved up some controversy, questioning whether NASCAR needs its Drive for Diversity program, which aims to increase female and minority participation in the racing car series.

“I have never benefited from the Diversity program,” Patrick said on Friday after a reporter from the Danville (Va.) Register and Bee asked her about diversity in stock car racing. NASCAR honored Wendell Scott, the only African-American to win in its top-level series, at its event in Martinsville, Va., this past weekend. Scott, who was born in Danville, won a Grand National (predecessor to Sprint Cup) race in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1963. Darrell Wallace, Jr., took the checkered flag at the Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville in 2013, becoming only the second African American to win a race in one of NASCAR's national series, and repeated the feat on Saturday in a truck wearing Scott's number and paint scheme.

Patrick cut short a follow-up question about what needs to be done for more women to enter NASCAR, saying, “Well, clearly then I wouldn’t think that there needs to be a diversity program if I’m here and I didn’t get in.

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KEYWORDS: danicapatrick; diversity; nascar
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To: BenLurkin

That would mean only one on the floor out of five in any game. College, Pro, HS, etc.


41 posted on 10/27/2014 7:53:03 PM PDT by wita
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To: GeronL

Do you watch Sprint NASCAR races GeronL?


42 posted on 10/27/2014 7:55:09 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: rabidralph

I’ll tell you, for a 100# female she has been driving the wheels off her car lately. Yesterday she took it to Jimmy Johnson, he couldn’t get by her. Indy car is by far the most dangerous series and she withstood that. I used to think the glam factor was what brought her in, but the lady really can drive.

She has real mental and physical toughness to hang with the big kids on the worlds premier racing series. I’m a race fan from the mid ‘60s and while F1 is the high tech series, NASCAR is the physical series, for a small woman she’s the real deal


43 posted on 10/27/2014 7:55:09 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: eyedigress

Not for a long time now. I used to watch a lot thinking these were more down-to-earth people than other sports and media.

They aren’t really any better or more normal at all.


44 posted on 10/27/2014 7:57:24 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: pandemoniumreigns

“When you consider her finishes, Yes”

The only way you get experience at being at the front, is by being at the front. She is doing that now.

I think she takes a LOT more flak simply because she is a female, but doesn’t seem to let that get to her. She’s always played against the boys, and it is no different now.

My daughter has some of the same in her, and now she’s turning wrenches on airplanes. That is definitely a male-dominated “sport”.


45 posted on 10/27/2014 7:58:14 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: cripplecreek

I remember when the US Army was sponsoring Joe’s car, and they had some soldiers there for one of the races. Joe’s Mom was there and spent the day with them. They has so much fun they wanted to take her back with them.


46 posted on 10/27/2014 7:58:25 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: VTenigma

That is an honest post.

She may not be the next Ricky Rudd or Ernie Ervan but she can tangle pretty good. Posters here have no idea what measures she has weighed to get where she is.

The fact that she is a “looker” has no relevance @ 200mph.


47 posted on 10/27/2014 8:02:40 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: GeronL

Read your post. It makes absolutely no sense.

Happy October!


48 posted on 10/27/2014 8:08:49 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: VTenigma

Yes, I think she’s come a long way and she seems to do well on the larger tracks like Daytona and Talladega. Normally, she falls behind on the short tracks but she really held things together yesterday. I have no problem with Harvick’s comments about her inexperience because it’s probably the truth. I don’t know all the nuances between Indy Car tracks and and NASCAR but she is learning each week.


49 posted on 10/27/2014 8:09:18 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: tacticalogic

There was a great article recently about dick trickle. It was entitled An elegy for Dick Trickle.

Great insight on his life. Pure racer.


50 posted on 10/27/2014 8:10:20 PM PDT by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: Tupelo

Brad keselowski called her an excellent 30th place driver.


51 posted on 10/27/2014 8:11:58 PM PDT by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: rabidralph

Umm... Harvick is going after Kenseth.


52 posted on 10/27/2014 8:12:39 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: rabidralph

I AM RR!


53 posted on 10/27/2014 8:13:52 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: rabidralph

I suppose they could throw some affirmative action females and minorities into racing, but what happens when the AA drivers lose all the time? And who the hell is supposed to put up the millions for them to lose? Would the next step be to give AA drivers a head start at the staring line and/or allow them to have faster cars? You know, to be “fair”.


54 posted on 10/27/2014 8:26:33 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: rabidralph

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55 posted on 10/27/2014 8:27:14 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: rabidralph
The issue with a "diversity program" in NASCAR is that there ain't no way you can make minority youths take an interest in the sport. Either they're interested in it, or they're not.

Mostly, they're not.
56 posted on 10/27/2014 8:31:09 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t you know that white boys can’t jump?


57 posted on 10/27/2014 8:50:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Aria
Next they’ll want at least one lesbian, one gay, one transvestite, one transgender...

Wait until some liberal group files a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a blind man and a quadriplegic.

58 posted on 10/27/2014 9:01:46 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Legacy of 'Obama The Divider' - Racial Revenge)
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To: rabidralph

Good for Danica. Racing drivers tend to be independent, self reliant types anyway.


59 posted on 10/27/2014 9:03:10 PM PDT by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: Iron Munro

I guess NACSAR is gonna have to learn braille...


60 posted on 10/27/2014 9:03:18 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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