Thread: Danica katku kell NASCAR sinine riband rassi, Daytona 500

Chevrolet's Danica Patrick on esimene naissoost juht Daytona 500 pole saada, ja ta peaks olema televisiooni reitingud võitja USAWhile Vormel 1 fännid on watching katsetamine tegevus sel nädalal Barcelona, üle USAs NASCAR laos auto maailmas on kõik a-Twitter Üritused saamise Daytona 500 pühapäeval tänu.
500 on esimese vooru NASCAR Sprint Cup ja on traditsiooniliselt NASCAR aasta, kus auhinna fondi top 20 miljonit dollarit esmakordselt tõenäoliselt suurim sündmus ja TV publik peaks olema vähemalt 30 miljonit ja ilmselt rohkem antud põnevust mis ümbritseb käesoleva aasta üritus.
Vaatamise arvud võivad minna läbi katuse tulemusena Danica Patrick soveldus kahe ja poole meetri superspeedway 45. 817 sekundit 196 keskmise kiirusega. tema Stewart Haas Racing Mine issi 434mph Chevrolet. Ta oli isegi koputama oma meeskonna boss Tony Stewart masti maha temerity.
Kui 30-aastane Wisconsin oli kaheksas 45 juhtide püüda saada ja siis pidi ootama ligi kaks tundi, kui teised püüdis koputama ta välja poolakas. Peavoolu meedia rõõmu tema väljakutsujad lisada hiljuti näitas uus poiss Ricky Stenhouse Jr, kes sattus 12., just enne endine Vormel 1 täht Juan Pablo Montoya.
See oli pinges ootama mitu hetki, kui see tundus nagu ta oleks unistus purunes, kui mitu NASCAR meister Jeff Gordon sai ainult teiste juhi süles üle 196 mph speedway, kuid tema Keskmine oli ainult 196. 292mph.
Hilja menetluses oli teine hirmutada kui 2011 Daytona 500 võitja Trevor Bayne panna ootamatu 195. 976mph haarata kolmas kiireim aeg.
Lõpuks Patrick oli võitmatu ja sai esimese emased juht nõuda NASCAR Sprint Cup Paalupaikka. See oli rohkem muljetavaldavad, kui sellest saab Patricks kogu hooaja esimene karikas.

Ainult Patrick ja Gordon on tagatud nende alates 500, samal ajal kui teiste võrgustiku seisukohad otsustatakse kaks 150-miil Budweiser duelli olulise võistlused mis toimub neljapäeval. Esimene neist on autojuhid, kes kvalifitseeritud paaritutel kohtadel (esimene, kolmas, viies, seitsmes jne) ja teine neile, kes sattus paarisarvuliste kohtade loetelu täpsustus (teises, neljandas, kuuendas, kaheksas jne).
Kaks võistlussõitu tulemus siis otsustab koordinaatvõrgu positsioone 3-32, koos teiste täpsustus on neli kiireim juhid, kes ei lõpetanud olulise võistlused ja segu neist põhineb esinemisi mullu automaatne alates teenindusaegade ja viimase NASCAR meister, kes ei ole kõlblikud võistluse. Kokku on 43 autod Daytona 500 55 töötab pühapäeval stardis.
Ei ole nii palju lõbu Katherine
Samas Danica Patrick jääb meist racing darling, Britains Katherine Legge, kes lootis, et olla konkurentsivõimeline IndyCar sarja tänavu, on leitud ise autoga pärast Dragon Racing ja tema sponsor TrueCar otsustas dump Guildford juht Kolumbia Sebastián Saavedra kasuks.
Legge allkirjastanud kaheaastase tegelema TrueCar oma Mõjukad naised kampaania, mille eesmärk on aidata naistel olla edukas motorsport. See kõik läks valesti, kui lohe Racing boss Jay Penske (poeg miljardär rassi meeskonna omanik Roger) otsustas kasutada ebaõnnestunud Lotus mootorid. Ta sai läbi seda pakkumist, kuid võib ainult saada kätte ühe Chevrolet mootori ja nii Legge oli jagada tema auto Sebastien Bourdais ülejäänud aasta.
Legge ütleb, et asjad olid aidanud kui Penske ja tema vend Mark arreteeriti swish Nantucket Jahtklubi suvel pärast kaks naist vaidlustanud nende jaoks klubi parkla urineerimisel ja väitis, et on rünnatud.
See oli äärmiselt piinlik, eriti sõnumiga, mida me üritasid kujutada seoses naiste Motorsport, ütles Legge.
Penske vennad pääses aasta tingimisi juhiseid, et vältida alkoholi- ja 50 tundi üldkasulikku tööd.

Chevrolet's Danica Patrick is the first female driver to qualify on pole for the Daytona 500, and she's expected to be a television ratings winner in the USAWhile Formula 1 fans will be watching the testing action this week in Barcelona, over in the United States the NASCAR stock car world is all a-Twitter thanks to the events in qualifying for the Daytona 500 on Sunday.
The 500 is the first round of the NASCAR Sprint Cup and is traditionally the biggest event of the NASCAR year, with a prize fund likely to top $20 million for the first time and a TV audience expected to be at least 30 million and probably more given the excitement that surrounds this years event.
The viewing figures are likely to go through the roof as a result of Danica Patrick lapping the two and a half mile superspeedway in 45. 817 seconds, at an average speed of 196. 434mph in her Stewart Haas Racing Go Daddy Chevrolet. She even had the temerity to knock her team boss Tony Stewart off pole.
The 30-year-old from Wisconsin was the eighth of the 45 drivers to attempt to qualify and then had to wait for nearly two hours as the others tried to knock her off pole. To the delight of the mainstream media her challengers included her recently revealed new boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr, who ended up 12th, just ahead of former Formula 1 star Juan Pablo Montoya.
It was a tense wait with several moments when it looked as though the dream would be shattered, notably when multiple NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon became the only other driver to lap the speedway at over 196mph, but his average was only 196. 292mph.
Late in proceedings there was another scare when 2011 Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne put in an unexpected 195. 976mph to grab the third fastest time.
In the end Patrick was unbeatable and became the first female driver to claim a NASCAR Sprint Cup pole position. It was all the more impressive as this will be Patricks first full season in the Cup.
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Only Patrick and Gordon are assured of their starting for the 500, while the other grid positions will be decided by the two 150-mile Budweiser Duel qualifying races that will take place on Thursday. The first of these will be for the drivers who qualified in odd-numbered positions (first, third, fifth, seventh etc) and the second for those who ended up in even-numbered places in the list of qualifiers (second, fourth, sixth, eighth etc).
The result of the two races will then decide grid positions from three to 32, with the other qualifiers being the four fastest drivers who did not finish the qualifying races and a mixture of those with automatic starting slots based on performances last year, and the last NASCAR champion who did not qualify for the race. In total there will be 43 cars at the start of the 55th running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday.
Not so much fun for Katherine
While Danica Patrick remains the darling of US racing, Britains Katherine Legge, who hoped to be competitive in the IndyCar Series this year, has found herself without a drive after Dragon Racing and her sponsor TrueCar decided to dump the Guildford driver in favour of Colombian Sebastián Saavedra.
Legge signed a two-year deal with TrueCar as part of its 'Women Empowered' campaign, designed to assist women to be successful in motorsport. This all went wrong when Dragon Racing boss Jay Penske (son of billionaire race team owner Roger) decided to use the unsuccessful Lotus engines. He got out of that deal but could only get hold of one Chevrolet engine and so Legge had to share her car with Sebastien Bourdais for the rest of the year.
Legge says that things were not helped when Penske and his brother Mark were arrested at the swish Nantucket Yacht Club in the summer after two women challenged them for urinating in the Club parking lot and claimed to have been assaulted.
This was highly embarrassing, especially with the message that we were trying to portray regarding the empowerment of women in motorsport, said Legge.
The Penske brothers got away with a year on probation, with instructions to avoid alcohol – and 50 hours of community service.