Fuel mileage wins are weird. I get people giving her flack for it. But at the same time if you watched how she did it, she knew from the start of the stint she had to conserve. It's hard as a racing driver to convince yourself to get passed and stay driving slower than you know you can go. She did it and saved at the right time in the right places to where she could run faster at the end of the race than Castroneves and was able to save more than the rest of those on the same strategy. I give her credit for it. It wasn't everyone else's miscalculation giving her the win. It was her being one of the only ones willing to do what was necessary for the long haul to make it work.
Racing isn't all about being the fastest for the entire race, it's about thinking spatially and being able to comprehend and calculate the factors of the entire race with your team while you are in the car. There's nothing illegitimate about her win at all. She did what other drivers didn't think to do, and that allowed her to take the flag first. It doesn't matter how you got there, it's getting there that counts and she did.
Fuel management is part of racing. There's nothing about it that takes away from her win. Racing isn't just putting your foot to the floor. Pit strategy and fuel management are equally important.
Win is a win. Better strategy, better gamble and she drove it precisely in conjunction with what her team was telling her!! Can't take anything away from her. It was her day. ❤️
On the day it turned out to be the fastest way to get a car from lap 1 to lap 200. If any of the big names, Dixon, Castroneves, Wheldon or Kanaan had won with the same tactic they would have been applauded for their tactical genius. You have to be in the right places at the right times to win.
Danica Patrick remains the only woman to ever notch a premier series closed course victory. She should have remained in Indycar and NASCAR haters gonna hate, but she was good enough to win in Indycar as she and Andretti Racing proved here. Despite what haters will say, she was good for the sport of motor racing.
All I'm going to say is she always appeared to be more interested in becoming a brand. Relying on her looks rather than talent. If you want to see a successful woman driver. Go look up Erica Enders over at NHRA.
@@chrisworthington1027 Or Angelle Sampey, or Brittany Force. Between Erica Enders, Angelle Sampey, and Brittany Force, there's a total of 8 championships.
She was total class I watched her in Formula Ford. There’s been plenty of talented Females in indycar. Patrick kicked the door open for them. Was NASCAR the right move for her maybe not but at the time it was the thing to do everyone from Montoya to Tracy was getting in a stock car
Great Vlog I grew up in Speedway Indiana back in the 70's and am all a buzz now with the Month of May among us but I am now living in the Philippines so the race will come and go without my seeing it live......My YT feed is flooded with Indy Car Vloggers now and I appreciate the effort you put into this one.
(Currently Binging your videos lol) No matter how much shit she gets in other series for her performance she's done far more as a professional race car driver than I ever could haha Danica always gets props in my book
@@tipsysmichigander6483 not at all, just tired of talentless UA-camrs engaging in an overplayed trope for the sake of clickbait. You a middle-aged "American" who has a deep rooted misogynistic inferiority complex, can't see a woman achieve what you can only dream of, and turn to drinking and lashing out to cope.
@@DebbiSmithDC You seem to forget that there are many drivers in the series with far worse records than Bubba. Why didn't you bring up Ware? He's a third generation racer, son of a team owner, probably should be higher up on the grid with his upbringing. There must be some other reason you pick on Bubba, some distinction which makes him different from other drivers, something... I just can't quite put my finger on it... What could it be?
ANYONE who would lay the claim that she only won because of fuel mileage must then accept that in her rookie year 2005 during the Indy 500 she was faster than anyone on track and at the restart late in the race had left the late Dan Wheldon behind like a bad habit but only lost the Indy 500 because she was low on fuel and had to move to the highest fuel saving mode on the engine. If she had the fuel, NO ONE would have caught her that day and that's a FACT!!!
A ton of drivers were faster as the race went by, Danica was fast but ran out of fuel for a reason, and everyone including Wheldon knew it was only a matter of time.
I love that wide oval track in Japan. wish they had that kind of track on the West Coast. Danica made a mistake going to NASCAR. It is too bad she didn't get a 2nd win to really legitimatize her win. Or even win 3 total to prove she was no fluke. She was a seasoned driver had a good career. She beat the top drivers in the field so it was legit.
@@Hamann9631 NASCAR has been the big money racing series in the US for decades, especially in the wake of the Cart/IRL split that almost killed the sport. She felt like she had to go to the Cup Series to prove she could REALLY hang with the best drivers in the US, and sponsor dollars poured in.
Best comment. I wish she would’ve stayed Indy and built herself up. She was like a rock in NASCAR but they just wouldn’t let her win instead they crashed her up a lot something you hardly see in Indy. The respect is way different.
@@TwoAcresandaMule If you have to say stupid things just for the sake of doing it, better shut up. You don't know what a moving roadblock is. Someone six seconds off the pace on a road course IS, someone who rides last and far off the pace of the 2nd to last on an oval IS. A driver consistently running in the 16 to 25 range out of 40 is NOT. Is that clear enough for you?
great video thanks for this!...Danica is a great competitor and she gives 110% on everything she does. I've seen her race throughout the years and she never ever gives up on anything.. she was raised by a good Father.
Oh no! You missed the best part. Do you have the podium ceremony? The shot with Danica leaning up against a trophy that's almost taller than she is, and second place Helio holding up what looks like a 4th place little league baseball trophy. Helio had some fun with that. It was hilarious.
She also made a history when she was third in I dy 500 few years later. That was awesome. I watched live. She also took pole position in his first senior Nascar race. She is the best.
The thing I loved about this is racers from both sides were like, "If both races are paying points, why can't we do both races?" Sadly, the rain delay screwed everything up, but the Champ Car guys were more than ready to put extra drivers into their cars. I miss the Panoz DP-01. That was a racy little car, but would probably crush like paper on an oval.
It was a GREAT day for Motorsport as a whole! Danica was a properly good Indycar driver, and was close to many more wins, she did have 7 podium in total, & especially her first three years at AGR was really strong. She was very strong at Indy, & was as everyone knows close to winning in 2005, probably 2007 was her best "shot" but due to bad weather, the race was cut short. Also her 3rd place in 2009 was very impressive! A shame that she went to Nascar for 2012. I would so like for another proper talented female to enter a top tier Racing series again, which they really is pushing into some good cars like DP was! Fun to see her still being involved in Racing, as a co commentator at Sky sports F1 & on the indy broadcasts :)
Exactly, she should’ve stayed in Indy. So much potential wasted only for everyone to remember her for how garbage she was in NASCAR. Not many people care that she did well in Indy.
@@Kilo-sz4ch FAR better than you could ever do. She won the 2013 Daytona 500 pole at 196.43 mph. She led several laps, in the top 5 until the last 3 laps and she finished 8th. NASCAR, she had 17 top 10's and she led 133 laps. She became the most successful female race car driver in auto racing history. Auto racing history records data doesn't lie.
@@sergeantmasson3669 “most successful female drive in auto racing history” out of what? Like 3? Lmao you’re reaching so hard to deny the fact that moving to NASCAR was a mistake. She did much better in indycar
@@Kilo-sz4ch FYI, Danica was better in NASCAR than the previous 118 female drivers since 1949. None better since her either. Indy Cars series, best female driver in that series as well since it began. None better since her in that series also. Your ignorance about auto racing history is quite obvious. I suggest that you do research BEFORE spewing out BS nonsense.
Well, I have to say that I was a big NASCAR fan since the 70's. Then when I heard that there would be a first time rookie woman driver in an Indy race I was amazed by her courage and confidence that she could be among men in an Indy car race. So I watched her as many times that I could somehow fascinated that she would take to the ovals every time and gave me a feeling of hope that she could overcome the odds of winning a race. Well, I had a fallout with NASCAR and wasn't as interested any longer as I always wanted to she this woman race again. No I am a big fan of INDY car racing cause of you Danica Patrick and I hope you continue to raise the flag of the sport you love best to continue to be an inspiration to the next generation of women in this sport. GBU 🏁🏁🇺🇲🌹
Love Motegi. remember how hard it was to beat the CPU on Forza 4 there. Its kind of a bummer that she did not do a lot of Sports car racing after her Indycar stint. I would honestly love it if she came back to drive in IMSA. she has been out for so long time and should be ranked as a silver driver. Being a silver driver opens up so many doors. TC GT4 GT3 LMP3 etc.
Say What you want about Danica but She is a Role Model for all Young and Talented Women who want to be a Racing Driver. She is Someone to Look Up to and Say: She Did the Impossible And I can do it to!
Pardon my spelling but Shirley Muldowney won 18 nationals and three championships. While we are talking drag racing Muldowney has a record most men would be envious of.
Bingo. Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and Dale Earnhardt consistently had the best pit crews and best crew chiefs in NASCAR. Good pit stops can save you 5-6 seconds a race, and on a lot of tracks, that's huge. You don't get to take away from a football player because they played for a Hall Of Fame coach.
I could never understand why Danica ever went to NASCAR when she was clearly a much better open-wheel driver. She could have had a very respectable racing career had she stayed in the discipline that suited her talents the best. Such a shame.
That would require her to check her ego. From the sounds of things on the outside, I don't think Bobby Rahal or Michael Andretti were sad she left (except for the sponsor money she raked in).
I don't like Danica, but I was happy to see it proved to people that a woman could win a major motor race (of course, others have done so before but people in America don't often know about Michele Mouton or Sabine Schmitz)
Basically Danica took a lot of $hit for being as cocky and brash as all the men in auto racing, instead of taking a backseat and acting like a "lady." Must have been a very rewarding feeling to win this race.
I have mixed feelings on this part. When CART went bankrupt in 2003, Tony George tried to buy the series, but the bankruptcy judge let Gerry Forsythe, Kevin Kalkhoven, and that trash human Paul Gentillozzi buy the series for less money to limp it on until reunification where if both parties didn't declare a truce, Champ Car was going to die.
Strategy is needed to win. Danica had the best strategy and so she was the best of that day and won. Sorry guys. How much stones have been fallen of her heart can be seen at the end where she looks more hurt than happy. She had to stand so much unfairness, hate, bad habit and stupidness. I wish her a second win at Indy, Laguna Seca, or Talladega. She deserves it.
Hard to argue against that. She was relatively consistent in IndyCar, and was getting better and better each year. It seemed like just a matter of time before she knocked off a few more wins.
She'd probably be out of a ride when GoDaddy left. I think everyone was getting tired of her at this point. It's also telling that her retirement race was with Ed Carpenter Racing instead of a former team of hers.
It was a good win, but memorable only because she was the first woman to win a top-tier racing event. Had Hideki Mutoh or anyone else won it would be forgotten. Danica was a decent driver on a good team. She always had good pace and a good pit crew and could run with the leaders, and she had very few DNFs, but she would inevitably be the first to brake when challenged into a corner. That's why Dixon, Castroneves, Franchitti, and Wheldon were the dominant drivers of the era. What success she had came more from pace and strategy than bold driving.
True, but not completely. Watch Michigan 2007, Texas and Homestead 2010, just to name a few. She was more than willing to race aggressively among those drivers, but she had to have total confidence in the setup in order to do that. Her comfort window was just too narrow. This was her biggest hindrance which kept her from winning more races.
Love this woman! It's nice to have a female presenter on Sky Sports F1 with some personality about her. She's rather easy on the eye as well which is never a bad thing :)
I remember a work colleague saying he was surprised a female was driving in the Indy cars. I’d been following for years and I said, yea she’ll never win a race either. The very next race she won. Unbelievable but true
Racing is not always about going fast. Well I mean it is but strategy comes to play also and it takes a team to win a race and not just the driver. Gotta build competitive cars and have flawless pit crews,crew chief,spotters and one mistake by anyone is the difference between winning and losing. I remember her leading the Indy 500 with two laps to go and she ran out of gas. So how ever you look at it the entire team beat everyone else's entire team to win the race. She wasn't conserving fuel at the end of the race! she was racing. Everyone else made a mistake and lost the race.
For some reason I misremembered how this race was won. I thought she won it on luck with rain. But this was a legit mileage race. So no hate here. She still sucks though but this win was well earned.
With the rain you may be thinking of Bubba Wallace - since his first win was largely cheered by the progressive crowd but it was basically a halted race due to rain and he was the leader at the time.
No you didn't misremember, you just never knew anything about this race other than hearsay from some of her haters who had never watched this race either. So the info that got to you was completely distorted and far from the truth.
Motegi would have to be a road course race. They haven't repaired the oval from the earthquake damage and only hold exhibitions on it. If we were going back to a Honda owned track in Japan, I'd just as soon go to Suzuka.
@@lastmanstanding9389 Arrogant anus toddler temper Kryle Busch has been in more wrecks that Danica ever was. The difference being is that he caused most of them.
Who the hell tries to sully someone's win?? Everyone starts with the same rules and needs to make a strategy for the win, if you're low on fuel then that's on you!
Fuel mileage wins are weird. I get people giving her flack for it. But at the same time if you watched how she did it, she knew from the start of the stint she had to conserve. It's hard as a racing driver to convince yourself to get passed and stay driving slower than you know you can go. She did it and saved at the right time in the right places to where she could run faster at the end of the race than Castroneves and was able to save more than the rest of those on the same strategy. I give her credit for it. It wasn't everyone else's miscalculation giving her the win. It was her being one of the only ones willing to do what was necessary for the long haul to make it work.
they'll do anything to take away that win from her
The way races are set up at that time fuel management is just as important as speed and Danica did it just right. As for the nay sayers well Boo Hoo.
Great description of a Great win.
And Congratulations to Danica !!
If you have to try that hard to justify it...
Racing isn't all about being the fastest for the entire race, it's about thinking spatially and being able to comprehend and calculate the factors of the entire race with your team while you are in the car. There's nothing illegitimate about her win at all. She did what other drivers didn't think to do, and that allowed her to take the flag first. It doesn't matter how you got there, it's getting there that counts and she did.
It was a proper win. No one criticizes an Indy 500 fuel win. You win, you get a trophy and a ton of points. Good for her.
@andrewdowling, and a big bag of cash.
Fuel management is part of racing. There's nothing about it that takes away from her win. Racing isn't just putting your foot to the floor. Pit strategy and fuel management are equally important.
thats the team, not hers
@@paradoxinfinity-y2b She has a say in pit strategy and she's the one driving to save fuel.
@@aaronbritt2025 It's like the XKCD "wow girls are bad a maths" vs "wow you're bad at maths"
@@paradoxinfinity-y2b , then it's the team, not theirs, in every Indi race. Except your only partly right.
Exactly. A legend like Scott wins many times by good management..... so are you Danica-bashers going to hate on him as well?
Win is a win. Better strategy, better gamble and she drove it precisely in conjunction with what her team was telling her!! Can't take anything away from her. It was her day. ❤️
It was her only day
@@wozzer3wa Well, It's one more win than you.
@@AB7F9 how do you know
@@wozzer3wa the same way I know you've never driven an Indy car.
On the day it turned out to be the fastest way to get a car from lap 1 to lap 200. If any of the big names, Dixon, Castroneves, Wheldon or Kanaan had won with the same tactic they would have been applauded for their tactical genius. You have to be in the right places at the right times to win.
Danica Patrick remains the only woman to ever notch a premier series closed course victory. She should have remained in Indycar and NASCAR haters gonna hate, but she was good enough to win in Indycar as she and Andretti Racing proved here. Despite what haters will say, she was good for the sport of motor racing.
All I'm going to say is she always appeared to be more interested in becoming a brand. Relying on her looks rather than talent. If you want to see a successful woman driver. Go look up Erica Enders over at NHRA.
@@chrisworthington1027 Or Angelle Sampey, or Brittany Force. Between Erica Enders, Angelle Sampey, and Brittany Force, there's a total of 8 championships.
She was total class I watched her in Formula Ford. There’s been plenty of talented Females in indycar. Patrick kicked the door open for them. Was NASCAR the right move for her maybe not but at the time it was the thing to do everyone from Montoya to Tracy was getting in a stock car
@@jakedaniels1437 Shirley Muldowney
@@MisterTwister88 Good point. She predates me by quite a while, but my dad remembers her. That's an additional 3 championships I think.
People give her a hard time( me included) but this was a proper great win.
Danica and the team played a good hand.
Cool vid. Subbed.
Thank you. Appreciate it 👍
No, it wasn’t. It was a fix.
Loved following her from when she started. Always hoped she would do well. Would have loved to see her win the championship.
I’m learning a bunch from these videos! 👏
Great Vlog I grew up in Speedway Indiana back in the 70's and am all a buzz now with the Month of May among us but I am now living in the Philippines so the race will come and go without my seeing it live......My YT feed is flooded with Indy Car Vloggers now and I appreciate the effort you put into this one.
(Currently Binging your videos lol) No matter how much shit she gets in other series for her performance she's done far more as a professional race car driver than I ever could haha Danica always gets props in my book
Thanks BadWallaby. I appreciate it. Glad you're enjoying them 👍
Finally, a video celebrating her talent. Instead of every other video taking shots at her NASCAR career.
Finally a video showing she had few glimpses of mediocre ability while still destroying other drivers cars in every other race.... You a fanboy.
@@tipsysmichigander6483 not at all, just tired of talentless UA-camrs engaging in an overplayed trope for the sake of clickbait. You a middle-aged "American" who has a deep rooted misogynistic inferiority complex, can't see a woman achieve what you can only dream of, and turn to drinking and lashing out to cope.
@@tipsysmichigander6483 At least she won while the flag was green and not just gifted a win like Bubba
Gifted…just like Bubba
@@DebbiSmithDC You seem to forget that there are many drivers in the series with far worse records than Bubba. Why didn't you bring up Ware? He's a third generation racer, son of a team owner, probably should be higher up on the grid with his upbringing. There must be some other reason you pick on Bubba, some distinction which makes him different from other drivers, something... I just can't quite put my finger on it... What could it be?
"To finish first, first you must finish." Someone a hell of a lot more accomplished and wiser than myself said that once.
Thank you for making me a bit smater. I really enjoyd it and im thankfull that i know so much about indys past through you
That's awesome to hear. Glad you enjoy the videos. I really appreciate it 👍
I love Danica ❤❤❤
Great video dude!
Thank you!!!!
Helio would later say that Danica was smarter than he was in that race. She managed fuel consumption better than he did.
ANYONE who would lay the claim that she only won because of fuel mileage must then accept that in her rookie year 2005 during the Indy 500 she was faster than anyone on track and at the restart late in the race had left the late Dan Wheldon behind like a bad habit but only lost the Indy 500 because she was low on fuel and had to move to the highest fuel saving mode on the engine.
If she had the fuel, NO ONE would have caught her that day and that's a FACT!!!
Jack
Helio was faster and was told to back off to save fuel thinking DP wouldn't make it
Well said 👏👏👏
Fuel saving was part of the strategy, just like her win here so she is a great driver comparable to the guys.
A ton of drivers were faster as the race went by, Danica was fast but ran out of fuel for a reason, and everyone including Wheldon knew it was only a matter of time.
I love that wide oval track in Japan. wish they had that kind of track on the West Coast. Danica made a mistake going to NASCAR. It is too bad she didn't get a 2nd win to really legitimatize her win. Or even win 3 total to prove she was no fluke. She was a seasoned driver had a good career. She beat the top drivers in the field so it was legit.
Bart Sulliva, great comment. I wish she had stayed in real race car racing because I like it better.
@@Hamann9631 NASCAR has been the big money racing series in the US for decades, especially in the wake of the Cart/IRL split that almost killed the sport. She felt like she had to go to the Cup Series to prove she could REALLY hang with the best drivers in the US, and sponsor dollars poured in.
Best comment. I wish she would’ve stayed Indy and built herself up. She was like a rock in NASCAR but they just wouldn’t let her win instead they crashed her up a lot something you hardly see in Indy. The respect is way different.
@@cr1m203 she was a moving roadblock in NASCAR. I attended her second Darlington start and I think she was lapped shortly after lap 10
@@TwoAcresandaMule If you have to say stupid things just for the sake of doing it, better shut up. You don't know what a moving roadblock is. Someone six seconds off the pace on a road course IS, someone who rides last and far off the pace of the 2nd to last on an oval IS. A driver consistently running in the 16 to 25 range out of 40 is NOT. Is that clear enough for you?
Danica first, the rest nowhere.
A win is a win no matter what but winning leaving all your competition behind is a badass way to get a first win.
Emiliomiguiniz, FYI, Danica Patrick was on the Indy Cars series podium 7 times, 63 top 10's and she led 124 laps.
EVERY win leaves all your competition behind dumbass!
I remember Danika joining F1, but I wasn't aware of her past racing pedigree. I'm definitely into Indy cars now, thanks Danika. ♥️🎉👊🏿🇯🇲
Great video thanks.
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
great video thanks for this!...Danica is a great competitor and she gives 110% on everything she does. I've seen her race throughout the years and she never ever gives up on anything.. she was raised by a good Father.
Great Kyle Moyer strategy ! Great execution Danica Patrick !
It doesn't end well.
Oh no! You missed the best part. Do you have the podium ceremony? The shot with Danica leaning up against a trophy that's almost taller than she is, and second place Helio holding up what looks like a 4th place little league baseball trophy. Helio had some fun with that. It was hilarious.
"and no-one else in sight" says it all. To win a race you need to get ALL your shit together, and she did.
OMG.... Danica's shining moment...Brilliant. I applaud....wow....wow....wow.... wagorak :)
Congratulations Danica Patrick. I am brasilian. Juiz de Fora MG Brasil.
When IndyCar was once part of the Formula 1 championship
She also made a history when she was third in I dy 500 few years later. That was awesome. I watched live. She also took pole position in his first senior Nascar race. She is the best.
Cette femme va a des vitesses folles, il lui faut un sacré talent ...qu elle possède totalement !
Nice vid continue covering interesting scenarios within motorsports and I’m sure you will gain the subscribers you deserve
Thank you Niki. I really appreciate that 👍
Danika such a great driver. I just love her 🎉🎉
@bertpretorius973, her name is Danica, PUTZ.
Love Danika
I MISS HER RACING STILE GREAT LADY
TY👍
A win is a win!! She freaking won!
The thing I loved about this is racers from both sides were like, "If both races are paying points, why can't we do both races?" Sadly, the rain delay screwed everything up, but the Champ Car guys were more than ready to put extra drivers into their cars. I miss the Panoz DP-01. That was a racy little car, but would probably crush like paper on an oval.
“ShE wOn oN fUeL mIlAgE”
Like 90% of Indy 500 winners.
Watching her give commentary on Formula 1 races, I gotta say, she's maybe a better commentator than a driver. Respect.
@nuclearrabbit1, she's a far better racecar driver than you could ever be.
@sergeantmasson3669 How do you know that? I graduated from the Ricky Rudd driving school.
what a legendary top 5! she beat 4 real legends of the sport
It was a GREAT day for Motorsport as a whole! Danica was a properly good Indycar driver, and was close to many more wins, she did have 7 podium in total, & especially her first three years at AGR was really strong. She was very strong at Indy, & was as everyone knows close to winning in 2005, probably 2007 was her best "shot" but due to bad weather, the race was cut short. Also her 3rd place in 2009 was very impressive!
A shame that she went to Nascar for 2012. I would so like for another proper talented female to enter a top tier Racing series again, which they really is pushing into some good cars like DP was!
Fun to see her still being involved in Racing, as a co commentator at Sky sports F1 & on the indy broadcasts :)
Exactly, she should’ve stayed in Indy. So much potential wasted only for everyone to remember her for how garbage she was in NASCAR. Not many people care that she did well in Indy.
Whatever drugs you are on. Pass some to the rest of us to understand your logic.
@@Kilo-sz4ch FAR better than you could ever do. She won the 2013 Daytona 500 pole at 196.43 mph. She led several laps, in the top 5 until the last 3 laps and she finished 8th. NASCAR, she had 17 top 10's and she led 133 laps. She became the most successful female race car driver in auto racing history. Auto racing history records data doesn't lie.
@@sergeantmasson3669 “most successful female drive in auto racing history” out of what? Like 3? Lmao you’re reaching so hard to deny the fact that moving to NASCAR was a mistake. She did much better in indycar
@@Kilo-sz4ch FYI, Danica was better in NASCAR than the previous 118 female drivers since 1949. None better since her either. Indy Cars series, best female driver in that series as well since it began. None better since her in that series also. Your ignorance about auto racing history is quite obvious. I suggest that you do research BEFORE spewing out BS nonsense.
Well, I have to say that I was a big NASCAR fan since the 70's.
Then when I heard that there would be a first time rookie woman driver in an Indy race I was amazed by her courage and confidence that she could be among men in an Indy car race. So I watched her as many times that I could somehow fascinated that she would take to the ovals every time and gave me a feeling of hope that she could overcome the odds of winning a race. Well, I had a fallout with NASCAR and wasn't as interested any longer as I always wanted to she this woman race again. No I am a big fan of INDY car racing cause of you Danica Patrick and I hope you continue to raise the flag of the sport you love best to continue to be an inspiration to the next generation of women in this sport. GBU 🏁🏁🇺🇲🌹
Love Motegi.
remember how hard it was to beat the CPU on Forza 4 there.
Its kind of a bummer that she did not do a lot of Sports car racing after her Indycar stint.
I would honestly love it if she came back to drive in IMSA. she has been out for so long time and should be ranked as a silver driver.
Being a silver driver opens up so many doors. TC GT4 GT3 LMP3 etc.
Was that Michael Andretti congratulating Danica? That was my favorite Indycar driver in the 80s and 90s
Yes he was. He owns the team Danica drove for.
She is the most successfully and fastest woman racer in motorsport history. The fact. And she is also charmingly beautiful.
I think the most succesful woman in Michellle Mouton
Say What you want about Danica but She is a Role Model for all Young and Talented Women who want to be a Racing Driver.
She is Someone to Look Up to and Say: She Did the Impossible And I can do it to!
Pardon my spelling but Shirley Muldowney won 18 nationals and three championships. While we are talking drag racing Muldowney has a record most men would be envious of.
9:46 great call
Helio Castroneves was there on every Indy historical moment. The man is a legend.
Wow! Good for her. Congrats D.
Outside if the Atlantic series, I never knew that she won an open-wheel race.
People give Danica shit but she did great in Indy Car and NASCAR. She is also a cutie.
Her mom wanted to make it all about herself
Say what you will about her. But she is the only woman to ever win an Indycar race. Period. That merits some respect.
Not really, she also crashed more people than anyone else many years in a row.
Gifted.
Well you can go balls out, and not cross the finish line first. A win is a win and that's a class drive
Every race in some way….is a fuel mileage race. This was a legit win.
Danicka Schmanicka. She is my MAN-ica. LOL. Luv you Danicka
Any driver who can win a race at the top level deserves credit for that win. She drove a smart race and it paid off for her.
She's a very good indy car driver
Fuel conservation, good pit times and solid driving makes for the win. Take away any one of those and you will not win.
Bingo. Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and Dale Earnhardt consistently had the best pit crews and best crew chiefs in NASCAR. Good pit stops can save you 5-6 seconds a race, and on a lot of tracks, that's huge. You don't get to take away from a football player because they played for a Hall Of Fame coach.
I have the highest admiration for Danica Patrick. A true racing legend !
She was and is dynamite! Her podcasts have been amazing. You have grown up well. Than you for racing... I think you should run stadium super trucks...
I LOVE DANICA
That blockbuster badge :D
Never forget.
I would have liked to see a race or races with Champcar, Indy car together. Wonder how they would compare?
That was cool
It was GREAT! ❤❤❤No matter what idiots say.
I could never understand why Danica ever went to NASCAR when she was clearly a much better open-wheel driver. She could have had a very respectable racing career had she stayed in the discipline that suited her talents the best. Such a shame.
I worked for an IndyCar team for three seasons. Got to talk to her on many occasions. I think she could have done better with certain opportunities.
that statement is no doubt true for 100% of drivers.
That would require her to check her ego. From the sounds of things on the outside, I don't think Bobby Rahal or Michael Andretti were sad she left (except for the sponsor money she raked in).
Ron Radmer, you left out the fact that Danica Patrick was on the Indy Cars series podium 7 times, 63 top 10's and she led 124 laps.
@@danielhenderson8316 FALSE.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Very good point.
They'll have to figure and be apart to support the KIDS❤
Fabulous fabulous.
Were you happy to see Danica win?
I don't like Danica, but I was happy to see it proved to people that a woman could win a major motor race (of course, others have done so before but people in America don't often know about Michele Mouton or Sabine Schmitz)
Yes
Not really. It permitted her to be hyped even more than before.
@@softwave1662 She won 1 out of 191 races...lol, nothing to be bragging about..
@@joshblevins7609 Nothing to brag about? Alright. Go win 2 races yourself.
Danica Patrik Crack.. 💪🏼✨
Basically Danica took a lot of $hit for being as cocky and brash as all the men in auto racing, instead of taking a backseat and acting like a "lady." Must have been a very rewarding feeling to win this race.
Just sucks that the only reason Indycar was in Japan was because of how well ChampCar was doing until Tony George destroyed it all.
I have mixed feelings on this part. When CART went bankrupt in 2003, Tony George tried to buy the series, but the bankruptcy judge let Gerry Forsythe, Kevin Kalkhoven, and that trash human Paul Gentillozzi buy the series for less money to limp it on until reunification where if both parties didn't declare a truce, Champ Car was going to die.
Strategy is needed to win. Danica had the best strategy and so she was the best of that day and won. Sorry guys. How much stones have been fallen of her heart can be seen at the end where she looks more hurt than happy. She had to stand so much unfairness, hate, bad habit and stupidness. I wish her a second win at Indy, Laguna Seca, or Talladega. She deserves it.
That’s a proud mama……😂
Danica would've wone a few more races if she hadn't wasted her time in NASCAR.
Hard to argue against that. She was relatively consistent in IndyCar, and was getting better and better each year. It seemed like just a matter of time before she knocked off a few more wins.
@@Demise90Racing She was definitely competitive in an Indycar, and came close to winning an Indy 500. But her NASCAR driving was awful.
Someone would have died if she kept driving.
She'd probably be out of a ride when GoDaddy left. I think everyone was getting tired of her at this point. It's also telling that her retirement race was with Ed Carpenter Racing instead of a former team of hers.
Not sure why she left open wheel for NASCAR. Must've been for $$.
greatest woman in motorsport since michèle mouton
This whole period is unhappy for me because the champ cars were gone.
The Indy cars were pretty lame in comparison.
Fantastic win, fantastic Lady
Excellent, thank you
Thank you Ron for checking the video out. Appreciate it 👍
It was a good win, but memorable only because she was the first woman to win a top-tier racing event. Had Hideki Mutoh or anyone else won it would be forgotten.
Danica was a decent driver on a good team. She always had good pace and a good pit crew and could run with the leaders, and she had very few DNFs, but she would inevitably be the first to brake when challenged into a corner. That's why Dixon, Castroneves, Franchitti, and Wheldon were the dominant drivers of the era. What success she had came more from pace and strategy than bold driving.
True, but not completely. Watch Michigan 2007, Texas and Homestead 2010, just to name a few. She was more than willing to race aggressively among those drivers, but she had to have total confidence in the setup in order to do that. Her comfort window was just too narrow. This was her biggest hindrance which kept her from winning more races.
Why’d she make her mom stand there like that?
Wouldn’t your mom be the first person you’d wanna see?
Love this woman! It's nice to have a female presenter on Sky Sports F1 with some personality about her. She's rather easy on the eye as well which is never a bad thing :)
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To be first, you first have to finish, fucking smart drive, taking risks, payed off, deserved win no question about it
I wish all the men would cry after they win 🏆 a race, it would show solidarity.
Excellent driver, if she had the right car and team !!!!!!
"Excdellent??" BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! A bimbo JOKE!!
She was a good driver, sadly NASCAR was brutal to her.... some her fault, a lot not. But she was a very talented driver in her prime!
she wrecked a fuck ton lmao
I remember a work colleague saying he was surprised a female was driving in the Indy cars. I’d been following for years and I said, yea she’ll never win a race either. The very next race she won. Unbelievable but true
Steve, Danica was on the Indy cars series podium 7 times, 63 top 10's, and she led 124 laps.
Bs to call this just a fuel mileage win. She wasn’t the only one on this strategy, she just happened to be the one in the front.
Racing is not always about going fast. Well I mean it is but strategy comes to play also and it takes a team to win a race and not just the driver. Gotta build competitive cars and have flawless pit crews,crew chief,spotters and one mistake by anyone is the difference between winning and losing. I remember her leading the Indy 500 with two laps to go and she ran out of gas. So how ever you look at it the entire team beat everyone else's entire team to win the race. She wasn't conserving fuel at the end of the race! she was racing. Everyone else made a mistake and lost the race.
For some reason I misremembered how this race was won. I thought she won it on luck with rain. But this was a legit mileage race. So no hate here.
She still sucks though but this win was well earned.
With the rain you may be thinking of Bubba Wallace - since his first win was largely cheered by the progressive crowd but it was basically a halted race due to rain and he was the leader at the time.
No you didn't misremember, you just never knew anything about this race other than hearsay from some of her haters who had never watched this race either. So the info that got to you was completely distorted and far from the truth.
@@C3rb3ruS_88 calm down internet warrior. Do your best to keep your two brain cells you have left, brainlet.
Patrick😍👍👍👍👍👍
Indycar should go back next season
They keep talking about going to international destinations again, hopefully a return to Motegi is in the works.
Motegi would have to be a road course race. They haven't repaired the oval from the earthquake damage and only hold exhibitions on it. If we were going back to a Honda owned track in Japan, I'd just as soon go to Suzuka.
The only win of her professional carrier.
And you had how many?
RIP Dan Wheldon
Watched a compilation of her crashes and thought she didn’t cause any of them but she gets a bad rep
And I bet if one looked at all the other drivers individually, they also probably had lots of craches over their careers.
@@lastmanstanding9389 Arrogant anus toddler temper Kryle Busch has been in more wrecks that Danica ever was. The difference being is that he caused most of them.
Who the hell tries to sully someone's win?? Everyone starts with the same rules and needs to make a strategy for the win, if you're low on fuel then that's on you!
Danica mu love