NASCAR: Someone Needs to Shut the Hell Up!
For full disclosure, NASCAR has been and still is double X chromosome challenged, no one disputes that.
The klieg lights have shown even brighter on the fact since the Danica Tsunami washed over Twin-Ring Motegi last weekend.
Given that, it was only natural the motorsports press would seek out past females with experience at various levels of the sport for comment. It was just as predictable they would find their way to Erin Crocker the last female to make any headway at making at the top level of NASCAR.
With that as the preface, I give you Erin Crocker:
“To be quite frank, NASCAR is not doing much to help women get into the sport,” Crocker said. “Maybe that will change, but up until now they haven’t done too much.”
I’m not sure what she expects them to do, as a sanctioning body all they can do is provide the proper venue for them to race in and also ensure they are at a skill level so no danger arises for themselves or other competitors. And they have, along with Joe Gibbs supported the Diversity Program.
“I’m not privy to the insides of how they’re doing business,” she said of Cup operations. “I just know it’s not a high priority. Their priority is making sure they’re in the top 35 in points, taking care of their sponsors.”
“No one has put their stake in the ground and said we’re going to make it work. Everybody has just given it a shot, and when the going got tough they gravitated back to the norm.”
Excuse me!
Remind me again who it was that did have a shot. A shot at making it to the Cup Series by having a fully sponsored ride by one of the top-tiered teams in the sport at a level most rookies start at, the Truck Series. In addition the same team provided a competitive ride in the ARCA RE/MAX Series.
Excuse me again Ms. Crocker, the problem was not getting a fair shot but what was done with the opportunity.
The problem wasn’t any stakes in the ground, but rather your boss putting his “stake” somewhere it didn’t belong and creating an environment where you became virtually untouchable by both teams and major sponsors in the sport.
You young lady need to sit down, shut up and get on with whatever racing opportunities may come your way.
And while your waiting you need to call on your former, ahem… employer. and ask why he hasn’t done everything he “possibly could do” to get you back into a competitive ride as promised. Although I suspect there were a lot of promises that were made in the heat of “competition” that were never kept, if you get my drift.
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I think that Erin needs to learn the real realities of NASCAR racing and it is not the fact that she is a female and has not been given oopportunities, but it is the fact that maybe she is not ready for the level at which she was given rides and really needs to pay her dues at the NASCAR level instead of whining about what she wasn’t given and what the sanctioning body is not doing.
That may to true Lin, but she would better served if she learned how to conduct herself in the workplace, as in keeping her panties on around the boss, then the rest would fall into place.
She’s not without talent behind the wheel, but her morals killed any chance of showing it’s potential.