Danica Patrick good enough for F1...

Just read this on F1 Live

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Former Grand Prix driver Hans-Joachim Stuck is convinced that Danica Patrick, the first female competitor to win a race in premier American open wheeler racing, would be a good addition to the Formula One grid.

26-year-old Patrick drove into the history books last Sunday by beating Helio Castroneves to the chequered flag in the IndyCar race at Motegi, Japan.

"It is quite clear that, with Danica, Formula One could conquer the United States.

"She is good enough for it," Stuck is quoted as saying by the German magazine Sport Bild.


Stuck, however, believes Patrick would need a season in GP2, as well as some F1 testing, before making the leap.

Sport Bild claims that Flavio Briatore, the Renault boss, has contemplated making contact with Patrick in view of a Formula One collaboration of some sort.

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What do you guys think?

Imo, drivers will not be concentrating on the race track but somewhere else when they come to over take or something a rather. Plus a woman on the grid, then we'll need to have grid dudes then

It was expectable that such stories would appear after her win. I think she's nowhere near good enough for F1. But then again, I don't watch the IRL and just copy what other people say.

Not a hope in hell.

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She's completely hopeless and lost on a road course. She'd qualify and finish last in every single race she entered.

It totally depends on what your definitions of "good enough" are



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Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

She seems to be average in IRL, and apart from a few drivers thats not exactly full of talent is it?

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Bit of a motorsport Anna Kournikova with less talent...

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> It totally depends on what your definitions of
> "good enough" are
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> [wizbangblog.com]


o.0

She's an awful racing driver with an attitude problem and a total lack of committment to achieving anything other than raising her own personal profile.

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Swap Danica for Rubens?

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Not that I have ever watched IndyCar, but how can you be an awful driver and win a race? And motorsport is also a sport which needs a lot of physical strength, so I guess she's not that bad at all, especially not for a women.

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> how can you be an awful driver and win a race?




LOL!

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

Awful is a relative term. Figured that was kinda of implied.

Date: April 23, 2008 01:03PM
Posted by: Locke Cole (IP Logged)

She's an awful racing driver with an attitude problem and a total lack of committment to achieving anything other than raising her own personal profile.

+1

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> Swap Danica for Rubens?

I prefer Rubens. His breasts are larger.

Sapo Wrote:
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> Not that I have ever watched IndyCar, but how can
> you be an awful driver and win a race? And
> motorsport is also a sport which needs a lot of
> physical strength, so I guess she's not that bad
> at all, especially not for a women.

Button won a race remember

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I was just going to start this thread.

"She's an awful racing driver with an attitude problem and a total lack of committment to achieving anything other than raising her own personal profile."

Most sensible thing I've ever read. Her move would be a mockery of the integrity of F1.

And we would have Max Mosley in a totally different situation

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> how can you be an awful driver and win a race?

two words: ralf - schumacher

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"Sport Bild claims that Flavio Briatore, the Renault boss, has contemplated making contact with Patrick in view of a Formula One collaboration of some sort."

The more things change, the more they stay the same

"No surprise then that, prior to 1992, Amati's only F1 experience came courtesy of a Briatore-arranged drive in a Benetton 191 for 30 laps."

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