Really?
Danica Patrick gets the pole for the Daytona 500 and no one cares to mention!!
The news says she's the first woman to get the 500 pole.
Far as I know she's the first woman to get that top spot for ANY NASCAR race.
(yeah, I can see how some of you smarties are going to twist that in to perversion)
It sure weren't meant that way!!
She has a chance.
In Indy cars she had 3 poles, won 1 race and finished 2nd or 3rd 6 times.
She is not an amateur, but has been booted out of a few NASCAR races intentionally. If that happens next week look for NASCAR to lose big time.
Paul in PA
What I've learned fron watching NASCAR
I've mentioned this before, but these are important lessons:
1) There's a whole lot of different ways to spell Deral, and
2) There's at least 50 different southeastern dialects. My favorite was listening to Awsome Bill from Dawsonville.
Don
What I've learned fron watching NASCAR
Go fast
Turn left
Repeat
I would looooove to see her win Daytona.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A NASCAR gender barrier, which stood for 64 years, was shattered Sunday by Danica Patrick, who is quickly reshaping Speedweeks into “She-weeks.”
The 30-year-old Patrick nabbed the Daytona 500 pole, becoming the first female to earn a No. 1 starting spot since the Sprint Cup Series was formed in 1949.
Going eighth off the qualifying line, Patrick zipped around Daytona International Speedway's 2.5-mile tri-oval at 196.434 mph, the fastest Daytona 500 pole-winning speed since 1990.
“I think when the pressure's on, when the spotlight is on, I do feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments, better races, better results,” said Patrick, who posted the fastest lap in Saturday's single-car practice sessions.
“I don't know why that is. I'm grateful for it because the opposite of that would be I'm guessing I probably wouldn't be here today, and I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”
After posting her speed aboard the No. 10 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet, Patrick had to wait more than 90 minutes as 37 more drivers tried to knock her off the pole. She made a television appearance and did a workout routine to bide the time.
Jeff Gordon, who went out as the 29th car, nearly caught her on the track. The four-time Cup champion was clocked at 196.292 mph. He will start on the outside pole position for the fourth time in his 20-year Daytona 500 career.
“It's great to be a part of history with Danica being on the pole,” Gordon said. “I think we all know how popular she is, what this will do for our sport. Congratulations to her. Proud to be on there with her.”
What I've learned fron watching NASCAR
> 2) There's at least 50 different southeastern dialects.
>
I can most certainly vouch for that Don!!!
When I lived in NC for those 12 or so years I discovered 3 different dialects within our own little tiny county. If someone from TN came across the border I could easily tell that as well.
I've lived in so many different places, I never really got a dialect of my own. I just pick up what I hear in a few weeks.
Ok, so I didn't pick up the Jamaican thing when we were there.
No mon, I not be from the land of the ten tousand lakes.
But I try not be da cloud on a sunny day.
I do got da patience to wait on dat sticky bun when da macheen don't give it.
I do however absolutely love listening to them, just as the New Yorkers sat and listened to me speak for a couple hours without asking a single question. I finally had to stop to ask if anyone had a question and one lady says simply "no, you're doing just fine. We just love listening to you speak."
I've always loved languages and studied them. Dialects are tough. Vernacular is tougher. I could easily travel less than an hour's drive and speak with the most perfect pronunciation but say something only someone local to hear would know what I meant.
> “It's great to be a part of history with Danica being on the pole....Proud to be on there with her.”
Well, that should confirm the suspensions of a lot of rednecks 😀
She has a car that can win....but its a long race...anything can happen.
Did auto correct get you with that "suspensions" remark?
Don
Can you sing this?
"Ok, so I didn't pick up the Jamaican thing when we were there.
No mon, I not be from the land of the ten tousand lakes.
But I try not be da cloud on a sunny day.
I do got da patience to wait on dat sticky bun when da macheen don't give it."
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I'm tryin to figger that out too. He uses the 50 cent words alot.
Since the purchase of my iPad I have discovered that there is apparently a programmer in Cupertino California who knows what I mean to say and takes the liberty of correcting it for me.
I actually brought it up earlier today.....
In Nate's boy/girl thread. Thought it was odd that nobody had mentioned it before that.
Roger that Joe!!!
I saw Dale Jarrett on the pole (2000 I think) and at the drop of the green he dropped off on purpose and went to the back.
Guess who won that one? Guess who won that championship that year?
Just to stay out of "the big one" seems to be the ploy de jour. It seems to work. Go with it.
Danica does have the car but I don't know does she have the experience in these cars. Sure she does in a go-cart on hyper-steroids. I was thinking the other day how cool that would be let someone loose in an Indy car at Daytona or Talladega. Just see what they could do - speed wise. It would be a white knuckle ride sure - moose knuckle included. 😀
"... a go-cart on hyper-steroids..."
Never heard that one, Eric. That's funny.
😛
Don
> "... a go-cart on hyper-steroids..."
>
> Never heard that one, Eric. That's funny.
> 😛
> Don
Really? That's pretty much what they are.
It is funny I admit.
I've heard from an engineer on those cars that they produce so much down-force that you could turn the track upside down and they would be fine and still be stuck to the track.
Now THAT I'd like to see. Add that to my bucket-list. Don't put me behind the wheel.
Beleive it or not, but not everyone is a NASCAR or Danica fan. So I could care less, maybe.
