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Pinecrest:
Danica Upset With Rule Change
By NATE RYAN,USA Today
Posted: 2008-03-25 12:16:37
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.
Starting this season, the minimum weight for IRL cars will include the driver, and Patrick is the series' lightest at 100 pounds according to the 2007 media guide (which lists other female drivers Milka Duno and Sarah Fisher at 120 pounds apiece; Ed Carpenter is the heaviest at 165).
"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."
Patrick said she asked IRL officials about the reason for the change but said "they didn't really have one.
"I just follow the rules," she said. "Maybe I'll get more specific reasons somewhere down the line --"
IRL spokesman John Griffin said the rule was intended to reduce the difference between the lightest and heaviest drivers, which is a gap that can range from 75 to 100 pounds.
"We want to make absolutely clear this is not a Danica rule," Griffin said. "You look at guys like Dan Wheldon and Marco Andretti, and they're light guys."
Griffin wouldn't disclose the cars' minimum weight but said drivers are broken into three weight classifications. The heaviest would have weight reduced from its car while the lightest would have a maximum 35 pounds of ballast added.
"It's something that had been looked at and was in the back of our minds every year," Griffin said.
Every professional racing series has had a car weight + driver formula except the IRL and its high time they leveled the playing field . To put it in perspective her weight advantage would be equal to over 160 lbs in NASCAR
Somehow Danica sees this as a rule against her which it is not . Last year when the IRL let her put power steering on the car because those little chicken wings she calls arms were getting tired during the race she thought that was just fine . Hey Danica just shut up and drive .
Girls shouldn't even be allowed to race with the men IMO they should still be in the Powder Puff division .
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jcrashm2:
That the cars weigh equal only makes sense...........
I think she brings some recognition to racing, and I find her attractive myself, but I dont think she is suited for the type of pic you have shown at all. She is starting to remind me of that tennis player.....
All all this woman negativity.........
Pinecrest....did you not get breast fed as a child? LOL.
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Thayne:
it reall is a nice picture and I HAVE NO PROBLEM with her having those taken!
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TDash27:
--- Quote ---Girls shouldn't even be allowed to race with the men IMO they should still be in the Powder Puff division .
--- End quote ---
-Pinecrest
thats kinda rude?? if you don't like that girls race then maybe you should find something esle to do with your time or suck it up deal with it.
:)
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hill3:
that picture makes her look like a plumber's help(see butt crack).
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