Examining Danica Patrick's legacy in motorsport 

😂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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

@@_SpamMe 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.

@@_SpamMe 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/

@@_SpamMe 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.

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

Good comment...

Trails are blazed by the chosen.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

True

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@@lordkinbote74 no, rush the movie abot hunt and lauda not the musical group

@@headxplosion he was joking

@@ADTR945 I think not

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

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.

I’m a NASCAR and F1 fan, I’m starting to get into Indy because of Jimmie, but Indycar is good

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

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.

Danica Patrick never driven the DW-12 Chevrolet IndyCar

@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.

There aren't enough male gymnasts are you going to force your son to do that?

Im from argentina, and surprise me when i see it. lol

BTCC early 90's was the best ever.

Maspin, Crashtor and Daddys cash confirmed Mario Kart Nintendo 69

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?

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).

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 risked 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

When was Danica promising?

@@patrickanderson9023 why do you always speak truth?

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, that came out of nowhere!

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?

i got the DE its sick

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.

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

Pole Position in the Daytona 500.....

Like watching a teenage couple arguing.

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.

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A good driver does NOT let himself or herself get taken out by other drivers.

@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

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.

He's going to run in Le Mans with Kevin

@@mrpalaces yes i Saw that but Im thinking of his time in f1

10% results is being generous ...

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.

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/

One lucky win is decent? Really?

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.

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.

Lol!

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.