Danica Patrick: Is All This Marketing a Cover-Up for Her Lack of Racing Skills?

"She's not Dario Franchitti and she's not Tony Stewart. She's not really shown over there [in the Indy Racing League] and won races and done stuff over there numbers-wise. She's just a marketing machine. Let's look at the facts and be blunt about it." "If she gets in that car and doesn't win races it's not the car, it's not the engines, and it’s not the team. They only changed one thing. If she's successful, she'll have a huge long-term impact on the sport," Petty said. "But if she's not successful the only impact she'll have on the sport is she wasted two or three years on a car that a good driver could have been in and could have been developing.” Petty spoke these words last week at the Sight and Sound in Nashville, TN, which marked ...

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