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A Bikini at the Races?? maybe ------if you are a Go Daddy girl

Current NASCAR

The views at Las Vegas are really into defining the curves of the track too. they all flow accordingly -----on and off the track

A Bikini at the Races?? maybe ------if you are a Go Daddy girl

Current NASCAR

Your words of wit seem to always fit like a Bikini SHOWING ALL WHAT YOU MEAN

A Bikini at the Races?? maybe ------if you are a Go Daddy girl

Current NASCAR

You prove yourself through hard work, courage, success. There is glory in making the climb to the top, not through cutting in line.-------REMEMBER THIS LITTLE PHRASE

Danica Patrick , with the help of her team owner, Tony Stewart , bought her way into the Daytona 500 . Simple as that.

She is going to the Super Bowl of racing not because she drives a car well but because she looks great on top of one in a bikini. This turns Patrick into a gimmick. She now is a GoDaddy babe who happens to be driving, instead of the other way around. I always thought of her as a driver first.

Its hard to find the right balance when youre combining sex and sport. Credibility is questioned, probably unfairly. But Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon and was No. 1 before she hit magazines in a bikini. Thats the right direction, anyway.

Patrick has landed at the top. She has never raced at the top level of NASCAR, only done OK at the next level down the Nationwide Series. Her average finish is farther back than her average starting position.

She did not earn her way into the Daytona 500 and will run qualifying only to determine her starting position. Someone else earned enough points to get in, but Patricks team, Stewart-Haas Racing, bought that someones points, painted another car with that someones number and called Patrick a success.

Patrick is doing this with the blessing of NASCAR rules . Crummy rules. Nearly every year, something similar happens, though this one has its own special twists.

In fact, last years Daytona 500 winner, Trevor Bayne , got into the race when his team bought someone elses points. But no one will accuse him of getting in for his Q rating. Instead, Richard Petty Motorsports decided to reduce the number of cars it ran, so it sold some of its points. The plan was that Bayne, in one car, would use his points to get into Daytona and then race a partial season. By doing so, Bayne's team didn't accumulate enough points to stay in the top 35 to automatically qualify for races.

But in Patricks case, they are taking this ridiculous points thing a little farther. Her plan is to use the points to get into the big race in car No. 10, then drop back to the Nationwide Series for a while, then pop back up at different times for nine more Sprint Cup events.

While shes in Nationwide, the team that Stewart bought the points from, Tommy Baldwin Racing , will field the No. 10 car. But it will be another machine with another crew and another driver, David Reutimann . Hell be in 26 races. And when Patrick returns, she will have the benefit of the points Reutimann has earned. That way, shell probably never have to run qualifying to get locked into the field of any race.

The top level of sport is supposed to be for champions, without exception for favoritism, personality or looks.

The Daytona 500 should be bigger than this. It should be for the fastest 43 cars. Instead, there is always some form of points swapping to help get the biggest names in ...

Patricks name is huge. I understand the marketing value of sex. Organizers of a great event can hope that the most marketable people do well. But you cant invent rules to make it happen. This just makes the race, and Patrick, look terrible.

Its just business. Thats what NASCAR people say. But, no, the business of a race like this is to put the fastest cars with the best drivers and the best crews and the best teams on the track. You can sell out everything around a sport, everything around the fringes. Thats business. But you cannot sell out the core of the competition.

Meanwhile, Patrick might go on to be a legendary driver. In fact, heres to hoping she does. But shes not there now. And while you cant blame her for taking everything she can get, it also puts her in a spot, adds pressure, sets her up to look like a failure. Its not always good for someone to be given too much.

The truth is, in a lot of ways, nearly everyone involved with the Patrick deal benefits. What happened is this: The top 35 finishers in owner points from last year are locked into this years Daytona 500 . Eight more can get in through qualifying.

Well, the Tommy Baldwin Racing Team, with driver Dave Blaney , got into the top 35. Under NASCAR rules , the points Blaney earned can be sold, roughly, as long as the Baldwin team remains at least a part-owner with the team that bought the points. So Stewart-Haas formed a partnership with Baldwin.

If these swaps are done all the time, the difference in this situation is Patrick. Its done for marketing purposes, not for racing. And perception means plenty: Non-racing fans will see it as Patrick getting preferential treatment.

Meanwhile, not long ago, Baldwin was such a little guy in the business that it was doing the start-and-park thing, meaning it would start a race and then just pull over and claim some other problem. It couldnt afford to run a full race.

Now, Baldwin is growing, evidenced by Blaneys success. But by selling its points and we dont know how much the sale was for Baldwin gets financial help . Blaney surely feels ripped off, but this move helps his team, which, theoretically, helps him. He can still qualify to get in.

The Big Race gets the Big Draw. Patrick gets into the race, as her team needs her to do.

GoDaddy gets a nice bump. Its win, win, win, right?

I dont know. Patrick the driver/sex symbol seemed much more interesting, much more fun to cheer for than Patrick the total gimmick. Or maybe you see this a Different way.....................!!! Tell us so we may see another view of this

Portions of above came from Greg Couch column

updated by @johnny-mallonee: 03/10/17 12:14:41PM

My vintage car motor

General

Yeah but if you read the fine print it says it has to have starter and not be blown. Also you have no scattershield showing.. must be going into a Sprint car, only way you gonna use that boat anchor

The boats of yesteryear

Current NASCAR

The engine downsizing would only raise the already strained budget higher-- you have to turn a 6 or 4 cyl so much harder than you do a v8 to get equal horsepower.. big iron is the way to go for simplicity but as PKL preaches to me----they aint nobody listening but I hope someone takes the flag and runs with it

The boats of yesteryear

Current NASCAR

Robin I thought that was the name of the game in racing but I guess I was wrong because it seems to have hit a sore spot here.

In fact with the activity,or lack of it, I guess everyone was crooning over DW and his acceptance speech in being allowed in to the Nascar Hall of fame. O-well he will be on Fox soon enough. for some!!!!!!!!

The boats of yesteryear

Current NASCAR

Do you ever set at a car show that has a bunch of the sleds of the 50's and 60's in it? They are big,wide (as a Pontiac) long as a bus but man could they fly. In the second race held in Daytona the cars were litterly pushing a hole through the air to run 130-140 or more. They had 400 plus inches under the hood with a carburetor that flowed gas like a fire hydrant but the cars could race by themselves until one would pass someone like that Jr Johnson. He found out the draft would work to his benefit to the point of winning with a inferior car (if you want to call that chevy slow). Look at the design of the nose on the cars up till about 69 when Chrysler and Ford put those sloped noses on the cars.

Point im going after is all they need to do is make the cars have to push that hole in the wall again and the speeds will come down to a manageable pace on the super speedways.

Bet that Toyota wont go off into the turn at 200 plus then, much less the Chevys.

Nascar needs to mandate that the cars get dirtied up in the air. Take that road scraper blade off the front and throw that spoiler away on the back. Have the nose be more realistic in looks then you may have a car wotrh maybe 180 mph on the straightaway, bet you they wount go flying into the turn without that downforce to hold them there.

Hey you guys in the choir you hearing this because somebody is definitely going to say thats what I need to do.

Now back in the 60's you could rumple the fenders up and it didnt slow you down (much) .

but todays cars are so air sensitive that a hotdog rapper will change the setup so much the car will have to either get up under the bumper of another car to suck it off or go to the pits.

Point being made now its simple to slow the cars down without killing the engine by heat. Look at the Dodge Challengers nose,its flat or even the Ford Mustang. That Chevy is not air friendly either setting on the showroom floor.

Dave Fulton am I correct here?? How about that STARS personality who is in the know am I on the right track here?? Or how about the Goat Rodeo group can you see the wind on this? Tim Leeming you and I battled the stars of yesteryear,would a bent door panel or trunk pushed up put you out??? Billy Biscoe you did it with and without fenders,you feel any difference?

Now you folks in the great state of Fla, where the track is-- yes you the one that reads our column on a regular basis its time you boys rearrange the barrels the horses are running around or it might get out of hand .. Lets get some input from our great minds on Racers Reunion.

updated by @johnny-mallonee: 03/10/17 03:45:47PM

A Peek at Beautiful "Backyard"

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A lot of pretties will be in full bloom about this time next month in Daytona. Just waiting around for the sound of thunder----yup thunder from over on International Blvd next to interstate 95

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUNG JEFF GILDER!!!!!!!

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Funny how these things get faster coming around,kinda like a race... But a person of your character can handle the "57" lap race this year with style. Hope you have many more hero

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