Examining Danica Patrick's legacy in motorsport
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Yes...we're talking about Danica Patrick. For a lot of people, she has a reputation of being a perpetual wrecker. Is this warranted, though? With everything she has achieved throughout her career, does she deserve more respect than she is given and more importantly, what is her legacy in motorsport?
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“Go daddy” could be the worst branding a lady could get surely😂
😂lmao true.
I don't think it was coincidental, either on her end or on the part of Go Daddy. You can say what you will about her as a racer, one thing is certain is that she knew how to market herself.
Jean-Luc
Go Daddy definitely ran with it for sure, some of the ads it was obvious lol
ALso the Nature's Bakery lettering right across her torso
“Sex sells” - !st rule of advertising.
"rule number 1 of stock car racing, learn to wreck someone without wrecking yourself"
Too bad she never learned
Or lead more than 0.1% of laps and finish in the top 10 more than a few times. She wouldnt have lasted the 5 years if it wasnt for media coverage due to being a woman.
Weird how the ubiquitous yet mediocre Andretti offspring don't garner the same disdain.
@@DiscoStringHit probably because the andretti name has garnered more popularity from Mario
@@DiscoStringHit any crappy driver that dosent deserve the career they had gets the same amount of respect from me....
Yeah she tried to wreck landon cassel I believe was his name in the red 83 bk car 😂 comical
Danica: _has a respectable career in Indycar..._
Also Danica: *_let’s ruin that by going to NAZZCA_*
DeNnY hAmLiN aNd DaNiCa HaVe ThE sAmE aMoUnT oF cHaMpIoNsHiPs
Ignore wins, top 5s, and top 10s.
@@Lol-pb9bx And that the NASCAR "championship" is a gimmicky joke. If you do all that, and ignore how much money was invested in her success, it's like twins!
@@hornetguy9063 It's the Superleague of motorsport championships. Playoffs with everybody participating but only the drivers part of it scoring points. Cause round robins are too boring /s
Gustavo Monteiro what’s hilarious is that if you look at NASCAR ratings, late season races have actually lost popularity. The entire purpose of the “playoffs” was to get interest during football season, when nascar was historically winding down at boring, generic tracks. It took until just this year for them to say “hey maybe people don’t like seeing 1.5 mile tri ovals that are nearly flat out every race”, too. I’m an American and I’ve no idea how nascar became preferred to Indy car in retrospect.
0:24 "63-year old man flies at Indianapolis while testing"
According to Mario himself, the thought going through his mind during the accident was "What the fuck am I doing here"
Sounds about mario
@@wendigockel Yeah that sounds about right
@@wendigockel I fucking love mario.
@@skatewithnomercy andretti?
There's an alternate universe in which Danica has become an F1 driver and everybody in America loves her
That's the same Universe where she battles all season long with Lord Mahever for the Driver's Championship in a HAAS. It goes all the way down to the last lap of Abu Dabhi and she over comes last lap mechanical issues to win in a photo finish by inches.
So a female version Mazespin
@@dr.science_0177 But good in this universe
@@dr.science_0177 this might be the most near-sighted comment in youtube history. Danica never sexually assaulted people when they were blacked out.
@@callmeshaggy5166 i mean neither did mazepin, she was drunk and mazespin is a shitstain but she wasnt blacked out lmfao, clearly conscious.
I literally had never heard of Danica Patrick until she randomly appeared as a playable character in Sonic All-Stars Racing, then wondered who the hell it was, also why she was in a game starring Sega video game characters.
She had some kind of Sponsership deal with sega
@@Cbazz she ran a sonic livery to promote the game and was added due to the adverts, confused me too,
Same here!
Holy shit, I've been playing that with my son over the past year or so and wondered who the fuck she was. Randomly stumbled across Josh's YT channel recently and legit only just realised where I'd seen her name when I read your comment. Also, Hello you! Love your vids Larry, long time sub here mate
She races an F1 car with SIX wheels, too. It should be the fastest plane, boat, car in the game, but it's not. Pretty weird.
Josh: She was originally meant to for Honda in the end of 2008 before the Japanese firm quit F1 for the millionth time.
This is somehow still relevant until now
No matter when you are reading this...Honda is about to quit F1 ^^
Renault, often, quit F1 as well.
@@jamiecloughgaming25387 as a team yes, but they have been around as an engine supplier for quite some time
@@TheEvapiiShow Customer engines don't count, as they don't have, the backing of the factory (with the exception of Red Bull from 2011-2016) works ones do.
@@jamiecloughgaming25387 even taking that rule into consideration, counting RB from 2011 to 2016, then Renault have been on the Grif gor 20 saisons straight
Would be nice to see a video about Jutta Kleinschmidt, who should be mentioned right after Michèle Mouton when it comes to tough women. She won the Dakar Rally in 2001, becoming the only woman to win the race and the only German to win the car category. In 2013, Kleinschmidt was named an FIM Legend for her motorcycling achievements.
Surprisingly(?), there's a handful of notable German female drivers. Kleinschmidt for Dakar, Schmitz for VLN/24h, Hürtgen probably too, and Ellen Lohr for DTM (actually, results-wise, I'd compare her most to Danica, aside from the fact that this was before the modern Interwebz so way fewer people know her).
Who knows; might add Flörsch to that at some point. Got to win some top-level races first, though :p
@@Sp4mMe Danica Patrick became the most successful female race car driver in auto racing history, including NASCAR.
@@sergeantmasson3669 ... ? No, seriously, by what measure? She's won zero Nascar races and one Indy car race. In season standings, her best were 3rd and 2nd in junior categories.
@@Sp4mMe Have you ever researched her auto racing career stats? Guaranteed that auto racing history records data professionals know far more than all you armchair bench-racers. www.stewarthaasracing.com/team-10-career-highlights-backup/
@@Sp4mMe BTW, winning a few races doesn't make any race car driver the most successful. FYI, several male NASCAR drivers never won a Cup series race either. A few male NASCAR drivers never won any races in any NASCAR series race. J.D. McDuffie, for example, was in NASCAR for 27 years and never won a race.
Although as an F1 channel we love the F1 videos, Josh has literally educated me in IndyCar and is the reason I have started watching it.
F1 still shits on Indycar
@@TheComedyShrine. "Yeah"...
@@TheComedyShrine.ur an f1 vibe I don’t fuck with why can’t they both be great
welcome to IndyCar!!
This channel isn't an f1 channel its a motorsport channel
A very fair treatment. I followed her career through indycar and nascar, and that's pretty much what I saw. Trail's are blazed by many who never made it all the way.
Good comment...
Trails are blazed by the chosen.
As a NASCAR fan, even though she did reach a few highs, she should’ve stayed in INDYCAR.
Yep. She was a decent driver in NASCAR, but nothing special. In INDYCAR I think she could’ve done a lot more
@@cashkenterprises5584 please tell us what qualified her as a decent NASCAR driver?
@@cashkenterprises5584 she was below average at best
@@Crzysquirrel124thst she was a serviceable driver who, towards the end of her career, brought the car home in one piece. She was fast, but the learning curve was too steep to reach her full potential
@@cashkenterprises5584 Brought the car home in one piece?
Her most remembered moment is her trying to wreck Landon Cassill but wrecking herself instead.
She wasn’t fast either, she averaged one top 10 a year for her tenure with her best points finish being 24th. She ran 20th-30th most of her career in championship level equipment.
So again tell me what made her a “decent” NASCAR Driver?
As a female racing fan...... Thank you. I was never a huge fan of hers, but still. This is by far the fairest assessment of her driving I've seen in ages. She was not as good as some, but better than a lot, and she rightfully owns some records.
I'm an Indy local, and one of the years during her time at AA I went out for practice. .....Never before had I seen so many young girls among the fans at the track (and I've been going out for practice since the early '80s}. More than that, they were *excited*. Utterly thrilled. Just because someone showed them that girls can race in the Indy 500.
And let me tell ya, that made me so unbelievably happy, after *years* of taking crap for being a chick who loves cars & racing. Their introduction to IMS was having a gal to cheer for, while mine, around age 10-11, was having to stick to my Dad like glue & being yelled at more than once to " Show us yer tits!!!". (Really. That;s the main thing I remember about my first visit to the track.)
So yeah, she wasn't the greatest, and yeah she could have an attitude. But she was good enough to get a whole new group of kids interested in racing, and that's pretty awesome.
I raced karts with her in IL.She was a great kart driver.Legit skills and not surprised at all that she made it into cars.
Danica had 1(!) win in 13 years of open wheel (single seater) racing...
@@patrickanderson9023 and Checo has had one win too in FI in over ten years. Doesn't mean they're complete trash.
The sentiment is good, but “better than a lot” really isn’t true. Not a complete failure in Indycar, only slightly below average (think Marco Andretti)
As for NASCAR, her pace and results were well well off her teammates and showed little signs of improvement. She was given far more chances than any other driver putting up those results
If your idea of better is in actually competing in two of the top echelons of Motorsport, than I agree, but she was often near the bottom of the talent level in the respective series themselves
@@mexa_t6534
Keep in mind Checo won races in F2 and F1 is a completely different game, car performance is the most important thing
That said, Perez had plenty of top 5s in his career, even in midfield cars, something which Patrick has never managed in top flight NASCAR
I recently watched 'Rush' after 7 years and did a search on UA-cam for it and I found only some trailers and nothing. Why no one is making videos about it. It's a masterpiece. Please, Josh make a video about it.
True
Red Barchetta is my favorite Rush song. If you wanna talk about albums, Hemispheres kicks all sorts of ass.
@@lordkinbote74 no, rush the movie abot hunt and lauda not the musical group
@@headxplosion he was joking
@@ADTR945 I think not
my friend was a friend of Danica's and raced with her on the road to indy. She's always been a hero of mine.
Yeah and hamilton is my uncle.
@@senor.waffle8448 lmao if that sounds that unbelievable to you that's kinda sad honestly man
@@flatsz What is kinda sad is you pretending you know someone for attention but OK.
@@senor.waffle8448 I never said I knew her?
@@flatsz And I never said I met my uncle.
She never amounted to the one true goat, our one and only lord and saviour Mahaveer Raghunathan, shame, she had potential.
To be fair, there are several male drivers who have long but lackluster careers. Eyes and expectations are on her because she is female (both positive and negative), and when she fails to live up to that, she is cast as the villain.
My ex GF's name is Danica, mine is Patrick, it was very weird when I read her name for the 1st time
Don’t be afraid to branch out to other motor sports and things in general. We are here for you not the topic you are covering. I would love to see IndyCar content it’s highly underrated especially by F1 fans.
I’m a NASCAR and F1 fan, I’m starting to get into Indy because of Jimmie, but Indycar is good
Having grown up only 10 or so miles away from her I will admit I was a big fan and pretty much the only times I'd watch IndyCar were for Danica. Then she came to NAZZCA and, well, yikes....
Seeing you comment on this video really make me happy, as even though sometimes in the outside world people see a huge divide between open wheel and stock car racing on this platform and don't view them the same way most of the content creators are respectful of each other and show support for motor sports in general.
I don't know what I am more surprised about. You in the comments of this video, or you having grown 10 or so miles away from DANICA FREAKING PATRICK
The crazy thing is people associate her with crashing, because of her time in NASCAR, meanwhile she has (or had, I don't know if she does anymore) the record for most consecutive IndyCar races without a DNF (finished something like 50 straight races there between 2009 & 2011).
I don't blame her for going after the money & fame, you've got to take chances sometimes, but maybe she should have stayed in IndyCar after all...
Why? She was a mid pack driver, which means plenty of guys were worse. She was under a microscope, and that’s why people say she was bad
Fun fact Danica was a voice actor and character in Sonic all stars racing transformed
Yh that’s where I found out about her
Does the game ever crash?
@@TheRCScotsman oo boi xd
@@StonedNoob ;)
@@TheRCScotsman no. It's a great racing game you should try it
Danica’s impact is a double-edged sword, girls that are coming through the junior grades because of Danica, are still going to be judged on marketability first and foremost.
Which is terrible for the future of women in NASCAR for example, as talent should be the deciding factor. How she lasted 5 years at a top team is beyond me
I doubt Danica had much of influence of young girls and racing. If she had been successful, maybe.
@@Duval-In-The-Wall She was nothing more than a marketable commodity.
@@Duval-In-The-Wall Kinda.
A large part of racing has always been attracting sponsorships, which she has proven women can capitalize on, maybe even moreso than men.
That will translate into more women having a shot down the line.
All the talent in the world means nothing without the money to back you.
Winning always matters.
Unless you're a woman.
As a girl who grew up watching indycar in the 2000s I gotta say she was my hero. It didn't matter where she finished just getting to see a girl on track with the boys was so cool to me
If you get a chance you should look into the story of the "fastest woman in the world" Jessie Combs.
She was killed attempting to become the first woman to break the land speed record and the sound barrier (which she did), she was also an off road racing enthusiast, tv personality, mechanical engineer and a master fabricater.
7:30 the way danica overtook dan was insane what an underdog movie
I was telling my wife that i want our daughter to get into kart when she's old enough. Wife's says there aren't female racecar drivers. I showed her Danika Patrick and other female racers stories, now she's all go for our daughter racing!
There aren't enough male gymnasts are you going to force your son to do that?
Even though she was an average driver, she was the only woman in the entire history to win an Indy car race. Many men drivers haven't even won a single race. That deserves credit.
If a George and valtteri incident happened in NASCAR between 2 NASCAR drivers then both the teams would brawl on each other( this is meant to be a joke not to be taken srsly)
George is with Mercedes.
@@pizzaman207 I mean if 2 NASCAR drivers got caught in such kinda incident then there's gonna be big brawl between both including the teams as a tag team match
That's because FIA won't tolerate that shit behaviour when you're representing the sport globally, and are among the lucky (considering how many great drivers never get a chance) few to ever get a drive.
Take Verstappen vs Ocon. Just a push in the paddock, called him a pussy and got community service.
Schumacher was thrown out of championship when he tried to take Villeneuve out in 1997 by shunting him like he did to Damon Hill in Adelaide 1994.
You bring disrespect, you're out.
@@abrahampjames2067 You copy someone else's car while you are a multibillonaire, you are fine.
Gotta love F1.
Ain't NASCAR great?
R.I.P. Dan Wheldon
As someone who only knows of her as an Indycar driver and who never follows Nascar the I didn't expect the Nascar section to hurt so much.
Danica was my childhood crush. She really paved the way for females in open-wheel racing. Was she phenomenal? No. But she was strong-headed and fought through whatever she faced. She's pretty awesome.
Paved what way for female in racing? If anything she overshadowed them and made females in motorsports look ridiculous. It's crazy how strong the media played into shaping her image. If a man performs the way she did, he would have been replaced long ago. This is motorsport we're talking about, you get replaced when you're not good enough and even if you're good enough, you're still at risk of getting replaced. If a man behaves the way she did, he would've been so unmarketable but apparently she's hot so she got away with it.
If anyone really paved the way for female in open wheel racing, it's Susie Wolff the last woman who drove an F1 car. Unfortunately she wasn't as marketable as Danica. If she was as famous as her, she would've gotten a seat in F1. Heck Danica was an awful driver yet people believed she should've been in F1 because the media frauds said so🙄
She also fought WHOever she faced lol
I always loved Danica's temper who doesn't love a driver with a temper.
Especially tony stewart. What a role model.
Best example was at Indy one year when she got clipped by another car and she took a long walk to the other drivers pit, you could tell she was MAD, the crowd knew it and they were waiting for the big confrontation
@@Slowcarfastbeans hell she drove for him
Danica didn’t do any worse in nascar than Dario or Scott Pruett tbh, coming to nascar with a road course open wheel background is not easy
But it's easier for IndyCar drivers than it is for NASCAR drivers to cross...There is a long list of IndyCar drivers that have won and done well in Nascar.....No NASCAR driver has ever crissed over and won a single Indy car race...
@@jessallen7756 A long list? Indy Car drivers have won in NASCAR, but I don't know about a "long list".
@@jessallen7756 One thing you gotta consider that although NASCAR has had its troubles, the money's still there. So if you're doing fine there there might not be much of a reason to go to Indycar unless you've seen and done everything and wanna try something new like Jimmie. But you got a point since I can't really think of a modern driver who went from NASCAR to Indycar and get much success.
Tony Stewart anyone? That guy raced anything with tires and was successful.
@@joshwokojance3790
Tony Stewart 49 wins
AJ FOYT 7 wins
Dan Gurney 5 wins
Parnelli Jones 4 wins
Robby Gordon: 3 wins
Juan Pablo Montoya, John Andretti 2 wins
Johnny Rutherford, Mario Andretti, Mark Donohue, AJ Allmendinger, 1 win.
Still crazy to me that Danica's last race in IndyCar (before she came back for the Indy 500 one year) was the same as Dan Wheldon's fatal crash. A total coincidence, but that surely wasn't a good omen for her post-IndyCar career.
Danica Patrick never driven the DW-12 Chevrolet IndyCar
Danica is the embodiment of the challenges women face in all kinds of professional contexts - where they have to "prove" that they belonged beyond reasonable doubt.
Plenty of worse drivers have gotten the opportunities she got without facing the narrative attacks that she endured the entire time
She was also elevated in the eyes of media largely because she was a woman though right? Let’s not pretend that her critics are just people who hate women.
That’s a stretch. She was given plenty of opportunity despite her gender, some can argue the opportunities came BECAUSE of her gender. Being a women helped her in this case as she is an attractive and talented women. She just never fully delivered and always complained. She ruined her own legacy.
Bluntly said: Just above-average driver with marketability through the roof.
Truly not "above average". Think how much more marketable she would have been if you had actually won races.
@@ellisjames7192 I had no idea how much of an impact I have on miss Patrick's marketing, thx mate
@@ctx4241 why didn't you win more races for Danica mate? You ruined her marketability smh
@@ellisjames7192 I mean she did win some, regardless of how skilled you feel she is you have to admit she's at least better than the average driver.
@@bradenculver7457 Apology letter should do, I hope she won't have me dragged into her mansion for interrogation, I have trouble talking with hot people when I'm not in the zone.
Cc:"make friends not enemies" Josh: "Hold my beer"
I vividly remember watching the 2005 Indy 500. It was a special moment when she took the lead. I count myself among those who wish she had stuck with IndyCar, but at that time the trend was open wheel drivers trying NASCAR.
@ryansheehan9462, Indy Cars she led 124 laps and on the podium 7 times with one win. Only female to do so. NASCAR, she led 133 laps and won the pole for 2013 Daytona 500. Only female to do Indy 500 and Daytona 500. Only female to ever win an Indy Cars race.
The most memorable of her career for me was when I finished first as her on all the Tracks in Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed.
Why is she in that game?
Maspin, Crashtor and Daddys cash confirmed Mario Kart Nintendo 69
In Indycar she was fairly decent but in NASCAR Imma just say...
It became really bad when even drivers of backmarker teams call her out for being sh*t.
When you drive for Stewart-Haas racing, and spend your career racing with David Gilliland and Landon Cassill, you need to rethink your career
@@Duval-In-The-Wall Here, learn something. www.stewarthaasracing.com/team-10-career-highlights-backup/
She was not decent and IndyCar I've been watching Indy car for 30 years she won One race and it was due to pitch strategy she didn't win that race as much as her crew chief won that race I guess she didn't lose that race. She was better in Indy car than she was at NASCAR but she was not decent in either. The only reason Danica had a career at all is because the sponsors love to use her in a bikini in their ads and on social media. She's Kylie Jenner in a race car.
@@robertstone9988 Danica, in Indy Cars was on the podium 7 times. 63 top 10's and led 124 laps. Her top speed, in an Indy Car, was 231.804 mph. In NASCAR she did better than the previous 118 female drivers since 1949. Do you really believe that you know more than the auto racing history records data professionals? Have you ever driven a race car at 200+ mph? I have several times and it's NOT a "piece of cake at a picnic on the beach" to do.
@@sergeantmasson3669 she was not a good driver to nascar cup standerts maybe a ok truck driver tho
Dunno about NASCAR but she was a competent Indycar driver
average finish in her career was 25th or worse... her crew chief won one race by keeping her out after every one else stopped...she wrecked more cars than I can remember... this in 7 years driving Indy cars...
@@bobdevreeze4741 No no, she was good in Indycar.
@@bobdevreeze4741 REALLY? Danica Patrick in Indy Cars. One win, 7 times on the podium, 63 top 10's and led 124 laps. None of the previous Indy Cars female drivers even came close to what she accomplished. Your ignorance is of titanic proportions. BTW, Danica Patrick became the most successful female race car driver in auto racing history. www.stewarthaasracing.com/team-10-career-highlights-backup/
@@bobdevreeze4741 WRONG ! She was near the top when several cars had to pit for fuel. She had been conserving fuel whenever she could. She won because of being smart and working well with her crew chief. Drivers that don't work well with their crew chiefs, don't win many races if any at all. Ask Milka Duno !
@Ridiculing Fools WTH race did you watch? She started 6th, got as low as 8th, moved up to 4th and when others pitted for fuel, she moved up to 2nd and then with 3 laps to go, she took the lead and won.
I hope this reaches to you, Josh:
Is it possible to do a video on Guanyu Zhou?
The goat
Or a video on the Alpine driver academy (Zhou, Piastri, Lundgaard) and how Alpine is crap at actually bringing their drivers into Formula 1, specifically to their team (Ocon just signed for 3 more years and Alonso is contracted for 2022).
2:40 when you're talking about uneven car performance, the blurred clip is from Super TC2000, Argentina's top racing championship. I have to say that, in my humble opinion, this series has some of the best racing on the planet! 5 manufacturers and all of the bumper to bumper, paint swapping racing you could desire! Unfortunately the only coverage is from Argentina, and as I am an under educated simpleton, I can't speak Spanish... But it is awesome!
Im from argentina, and surprise me when i see it. lol
BTCC early 90's was the best ever.
And yet, Christina Nielson of IMSA gets totally overlooked for winning two championships as a co-driver. Not a mention.
She wasn't a GoDaddy girl.
She didn't pose for photoshoots in a bikini.
She's just a good driver who doesn't market her sexuality.
That's why no one pays attention.
Thanks for mentioning it though, I'll look up some video.
She not good looking?
Kinda sad how it all turned out. She showed her talent in Indy. Once she got to NASCAR it kind of all fell apart.
Talent? 1 win on fuel mileage at an exhibition race in Japan...
@@anareel4562 it wasnt an exhibition race....but it was fuel mileage and only half the field competed. The rest were at Long Beach lol
@@Posirep it didn't pay points towards the championship, therefore an exibition race, much like NASCAR at Motegi, also didn't give points.
@@anareel4562 false. both races awarded equal points on the weekend.
For example, Will Power, who won at Long Beach that same weekend was awarded the same points Danica did for winning Motegi.
its pretty easy to look up.
@@anareel4562 It wasn't an exhibition race and winning on fuel mileage is still a win. It's not like the field was weak either despite some of the drivers being in Long Beach. Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Dan Wheldon and Tony Kanaan rounded out the top five with Ryan Hunter-Reay finishing seventh.
10:31 Tony Stewart and Cole Custer could back up their emotions with success. Danica was just in the way
0:57 Hey, U-Tree! The cross-over episode no-one expected!
ESPN did an article with Tony Eury, Jr. (Danica's crew chief for Montreal 2012), days after the race, where he said that she'd been complaining about her car's handling for a couple laps before running over the shoe, and that the shoe had nothing to do with it.
A very well balanced review.
Danica was generally a solid mid-pack runner in Indycar. Her NASCAR career is best forgotten. The issue was that the hype around her (and the money she made through self promotion) was wildly disproportionate to her results. In particular, her decision to appear in bikini spreads in a "lad mag" early on, and in Sports Illustrated later, didn't do her any favors in terms of being taken seriously.
Pole Position in the Daytona 500.....
I loved when she grabbed Denny Hamlin. "What are you DOING!"
and he's just standing there wondering what he is allowed to do to the woman who just runs up and grabs him
Like watching a teenage couple arguing.
Winning is the only thing that matters. Every motorsport dreams of having legitimately competitive women. The crowd at Indy was going crazy when Danica took the lead. Unfortunately, women have yet to make any serious impact on top level professional motorsports that involves turning. The NHRA has more women than I can name winning races and championships at all levels. The women of the NHRA have massive appeal to young girls/women who, aspire to, and become professional drivers. Shirley Muldowney was very kind and encouraging to me when I was drag racing as a kid.
They are unable to physically and mentally keep up at the highest levels of motorsport. We are talking about fractions of a second, but they just can't do it. My all motorsport, but for sure high speed, high g-force ones.
I believe it'll happen eventfully. We just need to run the experiment more times. Angelle Sampey was a monster on Pro Stock bikes. Those things are no joke.
Thanks for being respectful of Danica's career. Most people love to dump all over her abilities as a driver. Yes she wrecked some cars. Name a driver that hasn't. A good number of those in her last year of NASCAR were from other drivers. She was taken out 11 times in the last year by other "Top" drivers. Anybody that can drive an Indy car over 220 mph and complete the whole race has my respect! The good o' boys are in for a surprise soon. Hailie Deegan is coming. The first female driver to win a NASCAR race 2 years ago. She drives NASCAR trucks this year.
A good driver does NOT let himself or herself get taken out by other drivers.
Michelle Mouton won World Championship races (& just missed a championship) in the most bad-ass years of a bad ass sport. She made Bobby Unser cry like a girl. And called him on it. THAT'S a racer.
She was a badass
Also, don't forget that Mouton are competed in Rallying during Group B era.
So yeah she is a real racer indeed.
@@alifm4098 Auto rallying is racing against clock times between check-in stations and NOT racing against other cars to cross the finish line first. Whoever comes closest to check-in between stations times, is the winner, NOT the fastest car.
@@sergeantmasson3669 and your point? You don't have one. Enduring high speeds and very difficult terrain stage after stage in a group B rally car isn't racing? Who gives a shit if it's on track or not, it's still man/woman vs machine pushing the limits.
@@lewismatthews1442 AGAIN, it's coming as close as possible to times between check-in stations instead of racing other cars to cross the finish line first. Thus, auto rallying is different than typical auto racing.
You still have to give props to Danica. In a sport where you rarely see a woman, she did pretty well. Many Indycar drivers don't even win a single race, at least she won one.
So... Funny story - just last week, someone replied to a comment I left regarding Danica on a video TWELVE YEARS AGO pointing out that Danica ultimately ended up being "the most successful female in auto racing history."
I responded by naming four more successful women just off the top of my head - Shirley Muldowney(whom Josh really ought to take a look at), Michelle Mouton, Courtney Force-Rahal, and Brittany Force. To which this absolute GENIUS decided to claim they don't count because they didn't do 200+ MPH for hours on end.
Buddy, you said most successful in AUTO RACING history - not circuit racing, not oval racing, AUTO RACING. You don't get to make a declaration like that and then nitpick over the types of racing the more successful ladies partook in.
Danica IS the most successful woman in INDYCAR history - this is undeniable fact. But to say she's the most successful woman in all of auto racing is not only false, it's taking a gigantic shit over the careers of other successful women - some of whom helped knock down barriers that could have prevented Danica from getting a chance in the first place had they not done so. And of course when I pointed these things out, the genius who thought making such a declaration was a good idea had no response to give.
Danica is not a bad driver by any measurement - even on fuel economy a bad driver will never win in IndyCar. But let's give her props for what she IS and not what she isn't.
Every female driver, that you mentioned, had success in only one series of auto racing. BTW, auto rallying is coming as close as possible to time between check-in stations and NOT racing against other car to cross the finish line first. Danica drove race cars in more than one series of auto racing. Do you really believe that you know more than the auto racing history records data professionals? If so, you are greatly wrong. www.stewarthaasracing.com/team-10-career-highlights-backup/
@@sergeantmasson3669 Guy said "most successful female in all of motorsport." Doesn't matter that Danica tried her hand at multiple motorsports, her successes still fall short of the others in overall results.
Motorsports professionals by and large do NOT consider Danica the most successful female driver in the ENTIRETY of motorsport. They consider her the most successful female driver in the history of INDYCAR, which she is.
@@FormulaFox Danica did become the most successful female race car driver in auto racing history and your allegations/opinions can't prove otherwise. BTW, name one female race car driver that earned more than Danica Patrick's $12+ million from driving race cars. Good luck with that. There aren't any.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Danica is NOT the most successful, and every attempt to prove such falls flat on it's face. Tee fact that the best you can find to back your argument was the Stewart-Haas career stat list, and not a proper analysis of those stats by someone in the know, only underlines this.
The only "success" Dancia had over other women in motorsport is in IndyCar, and marketability. That's the only reason she made more money(adjusted for inflation) than other, more successful, women in motorsport. Marketability makes a HUGE impact on how much money one can make regardless of their ability - far less skilled drivers than Danica have made more money than she did.
This is why when people talk about "successful" drivers, they are generally NOT talking about how much money they make. They are referring to on-track results, and Danica's DO NOT support the notion that she is the best female driver in the ENTIRE HISTORY MOTORSPORTS.
Just to put things in perspective, people with an unusually high opinion of Danica tend to claim she achieved the highest points finish by a woman in NASCAR Cup history. In reality, Janet Guthrie holds that honor with a 23rd place points finish.
People like you will try to bend reality to fit the narrative that Danica is the greatest woman to ever race, but in the process all you end up doing is taking a gigantic stinking shit all over the successes of other women in motorsport.
Danica is a far more talented driver than her detractors want to claim, but let's recognize her for what she IS. Her accomplishments are sufficiently significant when analyzed for what they are and do NOT need to be overblown into something they aren't.
@@FormulaFox Your own personal opinions don't prove squat. Guaranteed that Danica could outdrive/outrace you anywhere/anytime. How many professional auto races have you ever driven in, CUPCAKE? Before judging others, make sure that you are perfect first. Danica earned $12+ million as a race car driver and she has a net worth of $80+ million.
I really like all your vids highlighting Women in motorsport! Keep them coming cause I learn a whole lot every time
Feels like she could have won an indy 500 had she stayed in indy.
Deffo!
She definitely would’ve remained competitive there. Finishing 4th her first time there is very good. I remember when she took the lead and just took off, it was so inspiring
No.
She would have had as good a chance as any other driver in the race. The Indy 500 is as much about luck as it is skill.
Lol. Absolutely not.
I am not the biggest racing fan, but I am surprised so many do not know who she is. Was she the best driver to ever enter motorsports, no. Was she better than I could ever hope to be, YES. I always heard she was better than her equipment. We should all be happy for her success. I guess.
0:58 - A wild UrinatingTree appears
A great retrospective on Danica, had a lot of potential and did well in Indycar, just a shame about her... experience, with the Cup Series.
After seeing Danica as a guest commentator/interviewer on Sky F1's US GP broadcast I thought, wow, she's got tiny feet!
She had always blamed the equipment never herself
Danica Patrick is one of those polarizing figures, where people either overrate her way too much or give her way too much shit. She was pretty good in Indy Cars and didn't do herself any favours with her random NASCAR switch. But she was never an absolute world beater there either.
Love the metal transition to "nezzcah"
She had a decent indycar career. Tbh I quite liked her, she always spoke her mind. She found NASCAR difficult, but it's a different disapline too open wheel racing. Good video fella.
One lucky win is decent? Really?
90% hype/marketing 10% results
10% results is being generous ...
She changed Motorsport to all ppl of the world
People dont like the truth but She was an overhyped driver that would have probably had a super short career if she wasnt a woman
@@Gl-my8fw this.
@@Gl-my8fw only one correction...an attractive woman. If she'd been butt ugly she also wouldn't have made much.
@@alpd7638 Because every female driver in history looked like a supermodel right...
@@FranciscoFJM I made no general comment, I made a specific comment about a specific woman. Don't strawman.
A+ for using the "Age of Empires" priest chant
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I gotta say she did a lot better than some others you’ve done videos like this for it seems
Her legacy is that if you have huge marketing power and you are moderately attractive you can go places even if the talent or success isn't there. It's amazing how far she got because of what she doesn't have down under
If that were true, Sophia Flörsch would be in F2, not in the errand ship called DTM.
There is a carting race with her and Lewis hamilton and well she gets decimated
@@huyra8019 comparing one of the greatest drivers ever to an average driver , truly the greatest of comparisons
@@sentientspaghetti1898 this was when they were kids lol
She didn't retire from Nascar, she was dumped. But the rest of the video is a fair assessment of her career. She was talented and made a mark ion the sport, and did a good job as a racer (before Nascar at the least) Congrats to Danica.
100% wrong. Danica retired from racing because she lost interest in it and wanted to pursue other things for her life. BTW, Danica became the most successful female race car driver in auto racing history.
Masson is full 💩
Wrong!. She stepped away because she saw she was never going to get any better.
@@ellisjames7192 Try again. Danica chose to quit because she lost interest in driving race cars and wanted to pursue other things for her life. That is her own words. She did far better, in auto racing, than all the previous female race car drivers in auto racing history. Jennifer Jo Cobb, for example, has been in NASCAR for 15+ years and still hasn't come close to accomplish what Danica did. You can argue and whine until hell freezes over but that will NOT change the auto racing history records data. How many professional auto races have you driven in? Before judging others, make sure that you are perfect first.
@@ellisjames7192 Your ignorance is quite obvious. sport.one/the-history-of-female-drivers-in-nascar/
It's tough to go from open wheel racing to stock car racing for sure! She clearly had pace, but she never developed the skills needed to deal with what happens when cars are bumping into each other for 3 hours straight. She wasn't nearly as bad as some Nascar fans will tell you but staying in Indycar would definitely have produced better results.
That's what I always thought, open wheel racers have to be so careful with their stuff as just a little contact can damage all the delicate aero parts & when they come to stock cars they retain that same caution about getting damage so end being used up repeatedly as drivers know they won't do anything about it
She never had any skills to begin with.
Josh: this video was made possible by surfshark
Danika: am i a joke to you??
I always wondered what would have happened if Katherine Legge had been given the same opportunities
@Ridiculing Fools her results were probably about "standard", tbh. There are plenty of Indycar drivers with long careers that didn't even get podiums, much less a race win.
@Ridiculing Fools E.J. Viso got 5 seasons in pretty good cars and never did anything. Charlie Kimball had 7 years in Chip Ganassi racing with a single win and a couple podiums. Marco had a long stint in Indycar while looking just okay, though I know he was around partially due to family legacy. Alex Tagliani had 11 season between Indycar and Champ Car that were full-time or close to full-time and had 1 win and 14 podiums by the end of it. His teams were worse but still. Oriol Servia had about 10 full seasons between the two series and had 1 win and 19 podiums, and some of that was on top tier equipment. Hell, even Takuma Sato didn't finish above 13th in the championship until after his first Indy 500 win 7 years into his career, even with his A.J. Foyt stint that's a long time.
And that was just me looking at drivers that were active in 2012, who knows how many have this story.
@Ridiculing Fools I doubt that she would have done any better.
Legge would probably have more than 1 top 5 finish from 7 seasons of stock car racing
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Danica was was the most over-hyped driver in every race series in which she competed. Translated she wrecked a lot of really good equipment.
These videos are so good. Thanks Josh for making these videos.
Josh could you do a video ranking or talking about the nearly men of F1, i.e. the drivers with a best championship finish of 2nd?
She is a race winner in the top open wheel racing series in north ameirca. enough said
Aye my man Clint Bowyer throwing punches at Ryan Newman. Should do a video on Clint, he was a fun case 😉😁. He also had a sponsor event with the two Haas boys in Austin back in 2018 and talked to a lot of F1 drivers and considered testing one before the pandemic hit.
This channel is great! Learning lots 🥺🤧
loved the aoe reference 1:48
Yeah, that came out of nowhere!
Danica was not one to push amid traffic. She was quick as hell, and just needed strategy and engineering to allow her to not fall to far off the front. She didn't have another gear. See: P. Tracy, C. Herta, P. O'Ward, and there's many more. She was of the Al Unser Sr., D. Waltrip school of racing, but a student.. never a scholar.
I completely agree about the arguments about her “personality”, male drivers are just as hotheaded, but they aren’t held to the same standards. That’s what a racing driver is.
Not held to the same standards? I can name 5 males right of the tip of my tongue who are hated more then Danica for being hot heads. Hell Kyle Busch had an entire comedy skit and meme made about him for being such a douche, only difference is he actually won stock car races, where she was just absolute shit in a stock car.
@@patchess5488 that’s one of the reasons Kyle Busch’s fans like him, and they embrace that about him. Danica just got too much unnecessary hate, even if she was a pretty average driver.
@@EllaGP22 she was an extremely below average stock car driver. She never go any hate in Indy in fact you could say she was over hyped in Indy but in nascar she deserved all of it. She would intentionally try to wreck other cars which is fine but in the process she would wreck herself and then have the nerve to match up to the driver after the race and get confrontational. It wasn’t uncommon for her to blame crashes on everyone but herself then when she would come under fire for it tie up the pigtails and claim being a women on racing is holding her back. Reality of the situation was is she was a good driver but a terrible racer and can worse sport
After her rookie year, she finished inside the top 10 of points every year in Indycar. Not a superstar but a respectable career. In Nascar, she was on a top tier team and finished about 25th in points every year while her teammates (particularly Kevin Harvick) were up front and dominating. I imagine had she stayed in Indycar, her legacy would be much different and viewed with much more respect. We see it with Jimmie Johnson this year, open wheel and stock car are different skill sets and sometimes drivers can't transition from one discipline to another. All in all, she was a trailblazer. Solid career in Indycar, bit of a disaster in Nascar, but what can you do?
Hey josh Can you plsss make a wtf happend to Jan Magnussen i really wonna see that. Or just make a vid on Jan magussen😀
He's going to run in Le Mans with Kevin
@@mrpalaces yes i Saw that but Im thinking of his time in f1
I was at that 2018 Indy 500. She qualified in the row of most famous Indycar drivers of the era: Danica Patrick, Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon. It was so sad seeing her spin. she was having a pretty good race to that point.
Lol!
Already anticipating the nazcah counter being in the 80’s
It's such a shame. She was a damn good single-seat driver, possibly the best female driver that category has ever seen. If she stuck to that, she could've had a legacy to rival Mouton. But instead she's primarily remembered for her less than successful foray into stock cars.
Probably made most of her money there though.Good for her I say.
That AoE wooloo at 1:48. Brings back memories
i got the DE its sick
I love how I only recognized two people out of that set of tweets near the beginning of the video.
UrinatingTree & DennyDelivers
0:59 didn't expect to find that salty Yinzer here ngl
Loved Danica when there was ship to shore radio. Q. "What's wrong with the car Danica?"
A. "The ass end is all fucked up!" Now that's development driving for you.
"Having completed the examination, we can conclusively state...
it was a small one."
Awesome video. Always wondered about Danica's overall career. you cleared it up beautifully
To me the best description of danika patrick comes from gene hass when he was asked about her potentially getting a drive with his F1 team: "we're running a racing concern here, not a charity".
We need more of these videos! I love learning about forgotten or promising drivers from the past!
When was Danica promising?
@@patrickanderson9023 why do you always speak truth?
I can just only think of the South Park's Nascar episode when someone says Danica Patrick. lmao
first thing i thought when i saw this video is
"Rule number one of stock car racing: Learn how to wreck someone without wrecking yourself"
Hey mate, can you make a video on M.Schumi's Biography ? Cause the way you make your video are really great
I admit, I have made jokes about Danica's performance in the past in NASCAR. But something I've noticed is that people are putting her level of talent (or lack thereof) as the problem, but that wasn't the issue as she had displayed that she had a knack for driving a race car. The problem was that she was rushed up to the Cup Series in just her 2nd full-time year of NASCAR action. 2010 and 2011 saw her run Indy full-time with a part-time Xfinity Series (then Nationwide) schedule. 2012 was her first full season in the Xfinity series, but she also was running part-time in the Cup Series, 2013 hit and she was a Cup driver full time. In very VERY rare cases do drivers develop this quickly in such an environment. If she were to run up until say 2014 in the Xfinity Series before jumping up to Cup, I'm sure she would've had a better time with things as her Xfinity Series results always seemed to be a bit better than her Cup results.
I agree. She was rushed and that is a shame. With experience you might have been very competitive.
I always liked her, and have enjoyed watching some of the interviews she's uploaded on her UA-cam channel. Her biggest mistake in her race career was going to Nascar. The specialization is such that there are few 'modern' drivers that have succeeded across multiple categories. Looking further back, I think I recall reading that even Fangio never qualified at Indy. And as for her profile and the publicity she received due to modelling shoots etc? Who cares. She is a very attractive Woman and good on her for not letting go of that side of herself.
Her NASCAR Cup series record is 191 races (190 with Stewart-Haas), a pathetic 7 (seven) Top 10s, btw, while her teammates were fighting for the championship. It is also worth looking up that Denny Hamlin clip in full. Comes to Daytona, has no idea how drafting and aerodynamics work after years in the sport, and drives one of the nicest drivers in the series within inches of strangling her just because she can't handle her own car. Constantly wrecked, even when trying to wreck others (like Landon Cassill, briefly shown at the start). No, she was a complete bust in NASCAR, grossly overvalued, pointing fingers all the time that others were doing her wrong, and her career was presumably kept alive solely by piles of sponsorship millions.
Not that it hasn't happened to other open-wheel drivers. Franchitti. Villeneuve. Montoya.