Danica Patrick wins first race

did she rip off her shirt in celebration?

 

Danica Patrick, meet Buster Douglas.

 

And the snarking-fratboy crowd, as it customarily does at the sight of any female anywhere having any athletic success whatsoever, feels its teeny-weeny peenises shrink just a little bit teenier, and rushes to the message boards to compensate.

 

Any papers that got it in was gravy.

It was a Sunday race (in Japan) that will make many Sunday U.S. newspapers.

And those papers have plenty of time for good pop on Monday . . . which is when the normal display would have been had the race been held anywhere else.

So Danica gets a potential two days of coverage . . . vs. one had she won the race at 6 p.m. on Sunday EDT.

Although there likely will be people who are hesitant to give it good play Monday "because it's 24 hours old."

Just hope I do not have to argue its importance when I come in this afternoon.

 

AP eventually moved an 13"er on it. Not sure how late they moved it, though. In plenty of time for me.

 

1. For a driver in any form of motor racing, a win in Japan is maybe commercially more useful than one in the U.S. that isn't Indy, Daytona, Brickyard, Miami, etc. I'd be willing to bet Patrick's win makes a YourTelecommunicationFirmHere Cup NASCAR race in Tokyo a cinch within three years.

2. I always rated her a good driver a rung below the top. Maybe she's ready to move up.

3. Nobody, I hope, in sports journalism is so dumb as to discount a fuel management win. Wins count when the winning run is walked in, don't they?

 

Fixed.

 

Guess I know who the guest will be on Letterman on Monday. ;D

We got it in, but we had to put it inside. We waited 40 minutes for the five-incher as well. Getting art to use took a little digging, too. She'll get B1 play today from us, but Stars-Ducks Game 6 will be our lead story.

For attention from the racing community, it helps that the Sprint Cup is taking the week off, although a lot of Nationwide-whackers will be racing in Mexico.

 

Miami a big race? Maybe back in the 80s in downtown, but these days no way.

 

I note that one of the ESPN channels is showing the race now at lunchtime EDT. So I think the people who said this will get major follow-up coverage are correct.

 

We got in on the cover for final. It was amazing that by the time the race ended there were NO pictures from the race. For a while, the only Danica picture was from two days ago. When they finally moved a "celebration" picture, it sucked.