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Danica's not good behind the wheel. Seriously. It's not because she's a women; Neilson, Legge and De Silvestro, off the top of head, are much more talented. Others like Fisher, Guthrie and St. James provided more consistent results with less.
What's the Princess done? Won 1 race on fuel mileage a decade ago? She was Marco Andretti good and was the Elliott Sadler of the IRL. And she's not produced much in Stockcars. A pole a Daytona? What else?
Here's her stats:
5 years of racing in NASCAR
Cup - Races / Top 10s / Poles / Wins
174 / 7 / 1 / 0
Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity - Races / Top 10s / Poles / Wins
61 / 7 / 1 / 0
7 years in IRL
Races / Podiums / Poles / Wins
115 / 7 / 3 / 1
Janet Guthrie had 33 races in the Cup series and had 5 top tens. Janet and Danica both have the highest placement of a female in the Cup series and that's 6th. Good for them!
Fact is, her car isn't on TV unless it's wrecking. Hard to sponsor that now that the "gimmick" has worn off.
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