Daytona 500 Recap

Before you bravely anonymous jerks comment with "NASCAR Sucks," or any other such jibber jabber, don't worry. I won't be writing too much NASCAR stuff. This was the biggest race of the year, so it deserves at least a little bit of attention.

Jamie McMurray scored an upset victory in the Great American Race, only his 4th career win. He held off a late charge from Dale Earnhardt Jr, who surged from 10th to 2nd in 2 laps.

The surprising and exciting finish helped fans forget a race marred with delays, as a wide pothole - yes, a pothole - opened up in turn 2, and required two delays to repair, totaling nearly 2 and a half hours. Officials blamed unusually cold and wet weather in Florida (it had recently snowed in northern sections of the state) for the pothole.

In the Nationwide Series (the AAA level of NASCAR) race on Saturday, Danica Patrick was caught up in a 12 car wreck. She was cruising in the middle of the field, cars started wrecking in front of her, and her was collected. She finished 35th.



-The Commodore

Danica Patrick to Formula 1?

I know, two racing posts in one day. It's cars going round in circles. Blah blah blah. But Danica Patrick is cute, and Formula 1 cars don't go around in circles.

Formula 1 is the top racing series in the world. And the car's are the highest performing vehicles known to man. They go 0 to 60 in 1.7 seconds. And 0 to 100 back to 0 in less than 5 seconds. F1 cars weight 1,300 pounds, and have about 900 horsepower. Compare that to a NASCAR, which weights 3,600 pounds, and has 700 horsepower.

Here's an F1 car racing a jet, and losing by 0.2 seconds.



There's an effort to create an All-American Formula 1 team for 2010, and Danica Patrick is one of the candidates for the 2 open driver positions.

Danica Patrick shouldn't do this. Unless she likes to be embarrassed. She's not particularly good, and is far from dominant. Formula 1 racing is an exclusive club. Only 22 drivers are in it, and only 5 or 6 contend to win races. Danica's an above average sized fish in a very small pond. In F1, she'd be devoured like a piece of plankton.

This would be like Anna Kournikova joining the men's tennis tour, or Doug Mirabelli batting leadoff, or Zdeno Chara playing goalie, or PJ Stock boxing. Don't do it, Danica. Stay in the States, be a driver/model not a joke/model.



-The Commodore

Danicat Fight Patrick

IndyCar racer Danica Patrick arguing with the only other female driver on the circuit, Milka Duno. Danica is kind of a whiny bitch, which fits with most IndyCar drivers. In some ways, I think Milka is hotter.



A real fight would have been nice. That's just another reason why NASCAR is better than IndyCar. Take this example from 2002 when Kevin Harvick jumped over a car to fight Greg Biffle.



I also wish Danica and Milka got as close to kissing as Harvick and Biffle.

-The Commodore