Danica Patrick | NASCAR Bloggers FT Digest

Diecast Dude, of Restrictor-Plate This, points out that there is more to Talladega than who the winner will be or “the Big One” in “The Sacred and The Profane Done Southern Style:”

Talladega is the quintessential southern track, a place where the sacred and profane ride shotgun for each other. There are few thrills in racing quite like a forty car pack thundering off a turn three wide, separated on all sides from each other by naught but a few air molecules that themselves are gasping for breathing room…read more

While you are in the house of Diecast Dude, you may also want to read “Playoffs, And Why NASCAR Doesn’t Really Have Them:”

One of the main focal points zeroed in on whenever the Chase is brought up is how it’s a post-season, which is always more exciting than the regular season. The latter is true. However, the Chase is not the playoffs, nor can it be…read more

And do not miss Diecast Dude’s methodlogical repudiation of Bob Magolis’ assertation that Danica Patrick’s win last week in Japan was PR hype, in “Would It Hurt To Give Danica Some Credit Here?”

Apparently rather peeved over being deprived of that motorsports writer’s most cherished fallback column on a slow day, namely how Patrick equals Anna Kournikova albeit at 220 MPH, Margolis assembles every hackneyed cliché there is in his effort to discredit Patrick. Unfortunately for him, the arguments disintegrate faster than summer snow. Shall we proceed?…read more

Diecast Dude is always very entertaining to read, so enjoy your stay at Restrictor-Plate This.

Yes folks, it’s true–on her fiftieth try, Danica Patrick has won her first IRL race, becoming the first woman to win a race in a major motorsports series on a closed circuit. She managed to stay among the leaders through most of the race, showing us what we already knew–that the woman is a very competitive racer. When the time came, pit strategy made the difference, and she was able to take advantage of the positioning she earned to win the race on fuel strategy.

Diecast Dude, of Restrictor-Plate This, explains that Danica won the race, and that is what matters:

…as a driver you also have to place yourself in a position where you can make full use of a strategy call, meaning you have to be close enough to the front so when the moment arrives where you can take advantage of having more fuel (or any at all) than the other drivers contending for the win, you’re there. Danica Patrick was there today at Twin Ring Motegi. And she won. She genuinely, truly, deservingly won…read more