See Danica drive; see Danica duel?
Danica Patrick has yet to win the Indianapolis 500.
But on Sunday, she grabbed the headlines.
Check out my latest video commentary or read below:
Admit it: you wanted to see Danica Patrick make it all the way to Ryan Briscoe’s pit.
If you were watching the Indianapolis 500 over the Memorial Day weekend, you know what I’m talking about. Heck, even if you weren’t watching, you’ve no doubt seen the footage.
Patrick’s run at Indy ended unceremoniously when she was trying to exit the pits. She was nearly clear of the chaos after a pitstop when Briscoe pulled out of his pit stall and clipped her back wheel. The wheel bent at an odd angle. The car went into the wall. And Danica’s day was done.
Briscoe’s car was in bad shape, too, so a few minutes later, both cars and their drivers were back in their pit stalls. When it became clear to Patrick that she was finished, she got out of her car. Rather than climb behind the wall and head to the garages, she started walking down pit row. It was a purposeful walk, and everyone knew where she was going.
Eventually, a security guard intercepted Danica. This was a man who looked about twice as tall as her.
I’ve got to admit — as I watched the two walking together, I really wanted Danica to break into a run. Sure, the guy could’ve stopped her, but he would’ve needed to catch her first.
But Danica didn’t run, and the security guard eventually diverted her from her mission.
Who among us didn’t want to see her get to Briscoe’s pit?
No one! Everyone wanted to see what would’ve happened if the 100-pound Patrick would’ve gotten to Briscoe. Would she have yelled? Thrown her helmet? Thrown a punch? Maybe she knows kickboxing.
It’s probably for the best that she didn’t reach Briscoe, but man, oh man, was I pulling for it. I couldn’t tell you much about Scott Dixon’s winning strategy, but I remember every detail of Dueling Danica’s walk down pit row.
Wasn’t there a room of IndyCar officials somewhere yelling for that security guard to let her go?
The IndyCar Series comes to our neck of the woods in a few weeks, by the way. Texas Motor Speedway will provide the backdrop on June 7. Track president Eddie Gossage is enough of a wheeler-dealer, he might just propose a Danica-Briscoe cage fight before the race. I can tell him this much — he’d have at least one excited viewer.
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