Bullcrap, Napoleon. Let's make the girl drive with extra weight. There couldn't possibly be any way to make male drivers lighter. Oh, except for diet and exercise. Ease up on the sauerbraten, Schumacher! Who'd ever think that a sport that involves sitting for six hours at a time could have its male stars get heavy?
Why don't you just make her drive in a minivan with a trunk full of groceries? This would be a non-issue if it were a lighter male driver, or a less successful woman. Indy Racing nabobs are scared that Patrick is "stealing attention" with her excellent driving and the fact that she's an attractive female. News flash, whoever you are: America hates your sport. We tolerate the Indy 500 once a year, and then it's back to stock car, or better yet back to a real sport, one with a ball or puck that doesn't directly fund the Saudi princes with every lap. Formula 1? We know Speed Racer, Mario Andretti, and Atari's Pole Position. Now, we know Danica Patrick. She's not "stealing attention"; she's generating it.
Indy Racing teams could stop whining and do the smartest thing to restore "parity" and keep the momentum going: draft more women drivers.
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They probably *don't* want to start handicapping their drivers the way horse racing does, so perhaps they should not go down this road.
It's so infuriating that when a woman fails at male-dominated sports, they say it's because no woman could succeed, and when one succeeds, they say it's because she cheated.
Mine is - IRL drivers are fucking whiners. Maybe she should get free performance-enhancing drugs, so she can match the upper-body strength of the male drivers.
I actually have been getting my sports ire up recently after reading an outstanding book my mother found: What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the US by David Zirin. He deals more with race, class, and social justice, but it all carries over. Bias is bias.