As Danica-mania Takes Hold of Indy…

1st May 2008

As Danica-mania Takes Hold of Indy…

posted in Formula One, IRL, NASCAR |

… Danica’s eyes are cast in a future direction:

Danica us hoping to test her skills in Formula One, admitting that she would relish a “proper” test with one of the teams.

“Every driver would love to drive a Formula One car at some point in their life, so yeah,” she told Autosport.

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a real, proper test.

“I was asked to do a demonstration lap at Indy in 2005, and I said, ‘No way. You’re making me a show. That’s embarrassing.’ But I would say that a real test is absolutely something I would do.”

And one team who would welcome her testing with them is Honda. “We haven’t instigated anything, but if Danica wanted to be a test driver then we’d be more than happy to talk about it,” Honda CEO Nick Fry said.

Meanwhile in that other racing series, the one with beer swilling, double-wide living, necks of red having fans and cars with tin-tops one, Patty Moise has some very… very sage advice for those trying to break into NASCAR.

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1 On May 1st, 2008, Meeshbeer said:#

nice article on Moise. Very insightful and reality based.

thanks for the linkage.

posted on May 1st, 2008 at 8:41 pm

2 On May 1st, 2008, george said:#

Danica has as much chance of racing in F1 as I do. Not even a remote chance of becoming a full time test driver. A courtesy test, for the publicity? Sure, why not.

It never fails to amaze me what the marketing of the female form and ONE LOUSY racing win can achieve. As you can guess, I’m a big Danica fan!

posted on May 1st, 2008 at 9:15 pm

3 On May 2nd, 2008, Marc said:#

Hey, if Legge can test in the Minardi Danica can test in a Honda.

Can she be any worse than The Dear, … well, you know who.

posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 am

4 On May 2nd, 2008, George said:#

Please Marc, don’t even try and compare a neophyte driver like Danica to our fav Dear Boy Jense. I recognized your tongue firmly planted in cheek with that comment!

posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 am

5 On May 2nd, 2008, Marc said:#

Tongue… what tongue?

posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm

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