NASCAR: Danica Patrick Deserves to Be on the Circuit

Danica Patrick is the race car driver everyone loves to hate.To be fair, she brings some of that heat on herself. Her marketing strategy seems to be far more about her looks than her driving, and self-objectification is not the way to win friends in competitive sports, especially if you aren't right at the very top of your game.As a result, she is one of the best-known and most easily recognized drivers in all of racing, even though she has only won a single race in her entire career (the 2008 Indy Japan).Her move from open wheel racing to NASCAR has been similarly unremarkable, having managed only a single top-five finish in two-and-a-half seasons of trying.As a consequence, Patrick is frequently tarred with the "all style and no substance...

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