Saturday, November 13, 2010
Danica finishes 32nd at PIR.
Danica's 2010 season has been all about learning what it takes to race a stock car. That even includes how to retaliate on other drivers to show you won't be taken advantage of during a long season. On lap 130, Danica was running 24th when the #35 car of Tony Raines nipped Danica's left front and tore up her fender making the tire rub and smoke up. While she was trying to drive the incident off, the #27 car of Alex Kennedy tries to take advantage of a slow #7 and uses her as a right-side bumper. Tony Eury, Jr. gives her the blessing to "express her dismay" at Kennedy's lack of respect and she gives Kennedy a shove into the wall. As she does that, her pit crew started celebrating her revenge. With 43 laps to go, Danica was trying to pass the #15 car of Michael Annet for 23rd spot when she got loose and hit the wall after turn 2. Unfortunately, the hit really damaged the rear track bar and she had to call it a race. If there is anything for her to take away from this race, it would definitely be that sometimes, in stock car racing, you will have to be quite malevolent to other drivers if they keep disrespecting you out on the track. That's what fenders are for...right?
Danica qualifies 28th for NNS race at Phoenix International Raceway.
Danica will start 28th for the Wypall 200 at Phoenix today at 4pm EST. Considering all the PR she has done all week, I'm surprised she remembers how weird the set up is at this track.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Chevy back to Indycar?
The IZOD IndyCar Series has scheduled a press conference for Friday morning in Indianapolis. The news conference, which is scheduled for 10:00am EST, will be held at the Hall of Fame Museum at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. There has been a report that appeared online claiming that GM will announce this Friday a return to IndyCar with its Chevrolet brand, to coincide with the new engine and chassis rules due to come into effect in 2012. The report claimed that Chevy will employ a twin-turbo V6 configuration for its new engine, although it did not specify whether the engine would be produced in house or by an independent race engine manufacturer and then be badged as a Chevrolet.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Danica to appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" tonight.
Danica will make a guest appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" tonight. Other guests include Chris Pine and Blake Shelton.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Danica finishes 22nd after starting 28th at Texas Motor Speedway.
After qualifying 28th for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at the Texas Motor Speedway, Danica finishes 22nd. During the 12th lap, she got some right front damage from avoiding a crash. Danica pitted and got back into the field in 42nd spot. As the race progressed, her car seemed to be getting faster running really good lap times halfway into the race. Unfortunately due to the lap12 incident, she fell 2 laps back and really didn't have any chance to make them up.
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