Okay, Danica, enough is enough: stop playing games and get with the program

who cares? Danica is about Danica and how much skin she can show and money she can acquire, not about NASCAR. If she gets an ARCA ride or with the Dale Jr and HMS show, well, whoop de do. We can get more annoying commercials for godaddy.com and I will watch racing on TV less and less.

The exalted Danica has accomplished her mission: Use NASCAR as a lever to extort more money out of Mike Andretti for her questionable driver ability.........

It is highly doubtful that she has the "sand" to hang with the bigboys in NASCAR, although I would love to see the "girly fight" between her and "Shrub" should they happen to "touch each other there" during a race.

Looking forward to next season:

Racemaster

I write movies for a living, so I came up with an idea for a film based on Danica and her media flirtation. The pitch goes something like this: What if Danica gave a press conference and nobody came? What if media's endless fascination with Danica just ended? What if the pseudo-drama that is Danica just stopped? What would happen? Would she actually just focus on being a racing driver or would she go off the proverbial deep end and snap?


There is no script, nor have I actually flirted with the idea.

BUT...

I'm worn out. I could care less if Danica drives a stock car, goes to F1, or continues driving in Indy car (and I love Indy car racing--you should read my real script set against that style of racing). Hell, I wouldn't even care if she stopped by my house and offered to give me personal lessons on how to qualify for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing and that she'd pay for my race team so I could compete in the Indy 500 (always a lifelong dream)...


You can only cry wolf so long before people stop listening. Maybe it's time for media to learn that lesson and just ignore Danica (and I should insert here that I actually think she's skilled at what she does in a race car--and I'm a fan) until she decides if she wants to be a championship winning race drive instead of a sponsor's dream.


Until that happens, I think I'm just going to ignore all the "What is Danica going to do?" coverage.

Ignore her. It's the best way to slam her.

When a Nascar driver gets out of his car after a practice session there is an extensive amount of communication between the driver and the crew chief regarding the car's performance. A successful driver like Mark Martin for example knows these cars inside and out and even minor suggestions help to put him and the sum of his experience a few tenths of a second faster than the 40 plus competitors. In this regard one must question that anyone with no Nascar experience like Danica could even begin to be competitive in the Nascar world. Unfortunately, the media and casual fans are lapping up this commercial sensation yet the most important factor, on track competitiveness will surely be close to zero.