Did Danicas IndyCar win put NASCAR behind the curve?
While NASCAR had the week off, IndyCar stole all the national headlines thanks to Danica Patrick winning her first race and becoming the first woman to win in open-wheel history — a major story NASCAR only dreams it could have. It was a great moment for open-wheel and Patrick, but again NASCAR is in a bad light, as casual fans around the country wonder if something special like that could ever happen in a stock car. And the answer is, if it does — it won’t be for quite a while. We have a woman running for President of the United States, the Speaker of the House is a woman, Patrick has won an open-wheel race — all around us, women are breaking down barriers, except NASCAR, which is still 43 white guys driving around a track. And the scary thing is, nothing is going to change. It will be years — decades even — before a woman is close to winning a Cup Series race. A team will not, and should not, just put a woman behind the wheel to appease a demographic, which means she will need to
