Who Is Danica Patrick Engaged To?

I don’t care WHY they broke up! All I care about is seeing him get his head out of his ass and start earning the money he was paid because he is an elite qb! He’s played inconsistently the last few years and is nothing like he was in 2010. Don’t know if it’s women problems or what, but he needs to either shit or get off the pot. Jordan Love is waiting on the sidelines! GO PACK GO! 💛💚💛💚🏈🏈🏈.

Danica is a FABULOUS person, and professional athlete! Met her at the Toronto Indy few years back, and she was awesome with my daughter from the start! A true professional! She takes a lot of undeserved hits for her racing career. She was never fortunate enough to drive for a true number 1 team, yet she did very well, in 2 series on occasions. Dont know AR, but believe everyone is entitled to some degree of privacy in their personal life, and think now would be a good time for us to grant this couple some, right now!

Danica is almost 40 and he was probably playing the we will get married and have kids someday just not now routine and she probably bounced. Danica is obviously an independent woman give how she conducted her career and how she conducts herself she probably just wants to have start a family and not play the girlfriend role at 38. He will probably knock up some 22 year old instagram model and she will marry some billionaire oil tycoon or middle eastern prince

Lot of culture Clashing . Look she is no Spring Chicken… he is a spoiled Brat, that is not Humble … she wants things a certain way decorating YOU never know where you Stand with an Introvert . .. he blames others when he loses.. He will be out of Football soon, as there is a New Upstart QB in GB.. If I was him I would trade Down . as I do now

Would be nice to see a article 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.

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.

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.

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.

I always liked her, and have enjoyed perusal some of the interviews she’s uploaded on her Youtube website. 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.

So… Funny story – just last week, someone replied to a comment I left regarding Danica on a article 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.

Nascar was my first love and still am a huge fan, as an F1 fanatic I’m waiting for a women that can compete with the guys in Motorsport. As a fan she was great to watch for her “ballsy” attitude. But as a pure racer she wasn’t very impressive. She wasn’t awful, but she wasn’t great. She set a route for young women so that’s good, but at the end of the day, your judged as a racer regardless of sex, as a racer she wasn’t anything special.

I think it’s cool they got into it as a family activity and she made a successful career about it. I also had to laugh when she reached above her head to grab that guy’s chest and was all “wHaT aRe YoU dOiNg?!” Like, you’re face to face with his belly button and he’d beat the brakes off you, but you know he can’t/won’t do anything about it so you can act like that.

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?

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.

Fully agree, Danica was superb in Indycar. Dont forget she was 5th in the championship in 2009, & had a podium at Indy as well. A Formula car, suited her so much more than a stockcar. Just a shame that she went the Nascar route, for that long. But that was partly because of Go DADDY wanting her to move for the 2012 season….

There is the concept that after winning your first race, the next wins come sooner and more plentiful. Like a mental block has been released inside you and you can now drive more confidently. Danica had the best car in Montreal that one year and she should’ve won that race until she ran over that shoe. If she won in the Nationwide Series, people would’ve looked at her career differently, perhaps she would’ve driven more confidently, etc. Its a shame she left the sport because the NASCAR circuit is more “road course” based which is more up her wheelhouse.

Danica was an above average oval racer who got a lucky win (but that’s happened many times in Indycar, a series that combines frequent refueling pitstops with frequent safety cars/full course cautions), but a below average road course racer. As the series pivoted away from oval racing, she was never going to do particularly well overall. I think there are certainly more talented women than her perhaps deserving of more media spotlight but really, that’s not her fault. She also of course courted the media spotlight with her antics but overall, I don’t think the hype around her is particularly her own fault.

You guys in the comments are the best. I came in, thinking I had something unique to say, and it turns out most of you have already said what I wanted to say… If NASCAR wasn’t, at the time, the pinnacle of American motorsports that everyone strived to get to, even Indycar drivers, then she would have stayed in Indycar, and she would have had a more stable and respectable career. Instead, with NASCAR being NASCAR, where anyone who isn’t a white, American male, she was always destined to have a spotlight on them in a mostly unflattering fashion (not to mention her move to NASCAR was viewed as a marketing cash grab from the very beginning). People even gave JP Montoya shit for a long time because he was “only good on road courses”. Whereas Indycar has been known for a racing scene that embraces drivers from all different backgrounds, and she could have been a part of the current resurgence. the series has been going through. Unfortunately, even though she has a win and a few podiums in Indycar, she will be mostly remembered as a hot-head in NASCAR and some good laps at the Indy 500.

I’d hit it. The outside wall at Indy that is. In believe that Danica Patrick could have achieved a lot more in Indycar if she didn’t go to NASCAR. The Andretti team was, and is pretty deep. I am surprised that she didn’t achieve more in her time in the team. Maybe if she had a dedicated driver mentor such as a Mears, or Unser she could have improved dramatically. I wish The Swiss Miss would have had the same opportunity for that duration that Danica did.

IMHO, Danica was not elite level, but was clearly a mid-tier IndyCar talent who was able to occasionally run up front, got wins in CART Atlantics, got a strategy IRL win at Motegi and even lead the Indy 500 albeit IRL. STILL, you dont do that without skill. No, she was not a championship level driver or even a consistent winner, but clearly she had skill and was a marketing dream. She was also abrassive at times and that made her a polarizing figure. All that said, I also think she does a great job being a guest analyst for SkySports F1!

The Holy Grail for any professional motor sport series is to find a female driver who can be a consistent winner. The publicity value (and thus commercial value) if such a find is easy to imagine. The traditional way to develop talent in motor sport has been to allow talent to “self identify” at the karting level. This works well for male talent as the numbers in the potential talent pool are so large. The numbers in the female karting talent pool are minuscule. An alternative approach would be to do what a number of Olympic sports did with huge success, identify potential talent with the right physical and mental skills and then expose them to entry level motor sport with top level coaching and training. What are the skills you are looking for? Laser like focus and dedication and the ability to control every single muscle in their body. Olympic level gymnasts have these attributes as well as physical strength and physical bravery all wrapped in a tiny package that car designers would love. Considering how much F1 teams spend on talent development through their Academy systems a lower level program designed to identify and develop female talent would cost chicken feed in terms of their overall talent identification and development budgets. Any suitable candidates identified could then be fed into the existing Academy system and then sink or swim on their merits like male talent. As a final piece of evidence I would like you to consider the case of one S. Loeb, 9 times in a row WRC Champion who even managed to win a WRC Rally on return to the sport 6 years after retirement.

Being born and raised in Indy, I loved seeing her do well (underdog, an underrepresented portion of drivers, etc) and vouched for her when most guys wouldn’t because ‘derr herr pwetty woman is lighter’ and other lame excuses. When she went to NASCAR and didn’t come back or improve there I couldn’t say anything smh. Felt bad for her. Then coming back for one more ride in a new Indy car spec that relies on undertray downforce that caught a few people wrecking out that year? Sad bruh..

She was a fast oval racer but was lucky to face a weak indycar field where only 4-5 cars were competitive. Her move to NASCAR was a marketing ploy but she was going to be a midfield driver in Indycar forever had she stayed there, as competition only got better over the years following the merge with ChampCar. So I kinda get the point, being a bottom feeder in NASCAR was a more attractive proposal.

God I know you’re an F1 guy but every time you mention NASCAR it’s one of my favorite memes you have. Now lets see if you can have something for Dirt Racing. Also I can agree with your final thoughts, The problem is that her stint in NASCAR was so awful for most of it that it just killed what ever she had gained in Indycar. Probably one of the worst career moves I can think of because she was chasing money and noteriety. That’s where it all went wrong.

i wouln’t say that her last race was something to be ashamed, was the 1st year of UAK-18, the car was and still wild on certain conditions, even veterans like Hélio and TK(if i’m not mistaken) got out of the race on that same turn, but overall was a prettydecent carrer, but being honest imo Simona de Silvestro was more promissing to have even best results, but…

She was decently good in Indy, especially on ovals, bad in NASCAR. It’s just a different style of racing and she never adapted to driving in the pack. That plus GoDaddy’s stupid advertising campaigns left a sour taste in people’s mouths, but I think if she stayed in Indy she would have won the 500 at some point. The 2005 Indy 500 is one of my earliest motorsport memories and is what got me into indycar, albeit briefly, as a kid.

In my opinion, the best race Danica ran was the Texas IndyCar race in 2010. She ran near the front and even challenged for the lead at one point, and eventually finished second. The move to NASCAR was a big mistake. Everything about the cars is different, and what you grew up learning in open-wheel cars does not translate to stock cars. The few Indy car drivers who were also successful in stock cars (A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Tony Stewart, etc) had started out in front-engine cars, racing on ovals. Sam Hornish and Dario Franchitti (for half a season) made the switch, but unlike Danica, they had accomplishments to fall back on. Danica had a single win on the other side of the planet. Hornish and Franchitti had both won championships and the Indy 500. No matter what happened in NASCAR, you couldn’t take that away. Of course Dario’s NASCAR experiment (probably encouraged by then-wife Ashley Judd after he went airborne two weeks in a row, and also to get him off the same race track as Milka Duno) didn’t last long and soon he was back in IndyCar. Hornish has had moderate success in NASCAR, winning a number of XFinity races and finishing second in points in 2013. The list of NASCAR drivers driving Indy cars is shorter, but not much more impressive. Cale Yarborough gave it a shot in the early ’70s before going back to NASCAR, and of course Kurt Busch ran the 500 in 2014 (finished 6th…which was kinda helped when a bunch of leaders took each other out in the closing laps). Jimmie Johnson has run a few races so far, and has admitted that he pretty much has to “un-learn” a lot of what he’s done in the past.

i think everyone forgets Danica was successful in literally the worst era of IndyCar. All ovals, cars that were the easiest to drive in the history of the series, and half the field made up of guys that were the equivalent of Lord Mahaveer. She was an average driver who looked like a star amongst those dregs. This was the era of IndyCar that left them with a bad stigma that European race fans still think of to this day. let’s not forget her one win was Roger Penske pulling an ultimate oopsie and telling Helio to let her by cuz he thought she was a lap down and Helio was in fuel conserve…oh and half the field was on anlther continent in a different race…that race was won by Will Power. An actual legend. She would not be competitive at all in this era of IndyCar. Not with the level of competition out there. Hell, James Hinchcliffe immediately won in her car when she left…and he’s an average at best driver himself. if Simona de Silvestro had Danica’s level of equipment shed have been way more successful. She routinely outran Danica in fucking Conquest and HVM junk cars.

I dont get why she get so much hate. She can clearly handle a race car, which is hard enough, trust me. And she also won a few trophies. She might not be the best, but she has done good in her carreer, and if you drive yourself in competitive events, you know how hard it is. Its not like it was a present to her. She had to work for this.

Danica Patrick was an average professional driver, no more, no less. I used to watch her race when she was racing in England in the 1990’s. She was in the middle of the pack, just like she was later on. You know who I was impressed with at the time? Patrick Long. He was pretty competitive but never had the opportunities that Patrick had.

Just like the great many aspiring basketball players who never find the limelight in the pros, so too did Danica in her sport but that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Once she joined NASCAR, I really expected Madison Ave to jump in and put her in a Betty Crocker Tampax ride in order to increase viewership but I guess she resisted the obvious sexism. In some ways, Danica is like the Tim Tebow of auto racing, she was more headline-grabber than her results supported but she did it her way and you have to respect that. She attracted a lot of negativity just by being who she was and that seems quite unfair even though she sometimes egged on her detractors. She’s still a fine driver in my book.

She was a mid-carder at best in Indy and NASCAR, wasn’t good on road courses but got the hype and attention of a top 5 driver mostly because of her gender and looks. That’s why she got the hate. There isn’t anything wrong with that, a mid-pack driver is a solid career. Just, the attention was skewed. (Also…her only win was the week the field was split between Japan and Long Beach. Darn Champ Car finale) I always said that Sarah Fisher would have done better if she had the same equipment. But she never had the same opportunity or marketability.

Every racing woman article, there is a list of names like Mouton, or Patrick, or you get something about the trail blazers like Maria De Fillips the first woman in F1 or even Betty Haig the last person to win an Olympic medal for Motor racing. It’s always about how these women are inspirations, how we need women like these, and there’s this or that legacy blah blah…….. and I guess fair enough. However, I just want to say, as much as all those women matter…. what motor racing needs is for women to want to be be like Lela Lombardi, to be able to race men at the top, and beat many of them. I do not care about a woman winning WRC, or WEC, or Indy or NASCAR or anything else… I mean, I do, but they are treated like some kind of benchmark…… what I want is a woman who can score in F1, will go toe to toe… or wheel to wheel with, and finish ahead of, some of the men regularly. Sure, it was not much, her career relatively short, but Lombardi DID IT…. THAT should be the benchmark and inspiration for all women drivers. Those other woman, all good role models…. Lombardi scored points in F1… so BETTER role model.

as a nascar fan that has not missed perusal a race in years i cant imagine how much of my life was wasted during each broadcast talking about someone running 30th in a top 10 car. friends of mine think im being sexist for hating her when i looked at her as a ‘race car’ driver when she was awful at remember everyone kevin harvick one a championship at the same time he was his teammate

From ’99 – ’09 I lived within walking distance of IMS. My favorite personal memory of Danica was of her walking out of the garage area to pit lane. Her “usual” norm was to ignore all the people behind the barriers begging for autographs, but one time a bunch of young girls were calling out to her & she obliged them all. I thought; “She gets it: She understands that she can be a role model”. 🙂

I have a feeling Danica’s career in motorsport was pretty lonely and frustrating, which probably explains some of her outbursts. Imagine having the talent to make podiums and get a win in IndyCar, only to find that most people are only interested in judging you by your physical appearance or by the branding behind you. Instead of getting to stand on your own laurels as a driver, you’re forced into commercials and glamour shoots, because “OMG FEMALE RACING DRIVER”, while fans perusal at home used that exposure to deride the perceived lack of requisite success on the track. In reality, I don’t think any person could live up to the expectations she was saddled with through PR mismanagement. She deserved better.