By Administrator on August 31, 2010Add Comments
Courtesy of MilkaDuno.com
JOLIET, IL (August 28, 2010) – Milka Duno finished 19th out of 29 entries in tonight’s 200-lap Indy 300 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, IL.
In her first practice session on Friday morning her on-track time was seriously reduced due to a mechanical issue which caused her to have only 13 laps in the 60-minute session, but it was enough for her to deliver a best lap time only 7 tenths of a second off the practice’s leader.
The mechanical issue fixed, but with no opportunity for a shake-down, Duno qualified 26th for the start of tonight’s race – with a differential of 8 tenths of a second from the pole sitter’s time.
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By Administrator on August 30, 20101 Comment
Older image of Patrick, before the media frenzy...
Danica-mania as it is being called in the media, the phenomenon that drives most fans crazy. Danica making the decision to drive in two series, full time in Indy and part time in the NASCAR Nationwide and ARCA series’ has grouped her into several categories. Her media attention has become tiresome to most, “Who cares if she’s running 30th!?” I’ve heard many times during a Nationwide Series race..
I came across this article and it really made me want the options of my readers. Like most I have tons of respect for Danica and by any standards it’s not her fault what the media has done with her image. Read the article below from DelawareOnline.com by Mike Finney. Leave us a comment and tell us what you think. We have to agree with him on some points, does Danica need to get used to the ways of NASCAR, bumping and banging is the way of Stock Cars.. Or should she stick with Indy? Let us know below!
Courtesy of DelawareOnline.com
For better or for worse, Danica-mania is heading to Dover International Speedway next month.
The track is taking full advantage of Danica Patrick’s upcoming Nationwide Series race at Dover on Sept. 25, prominently featuring her on billboards and hosting a free question-and-answer session with her prior to her first race at the speedway. Read More
By Administrator on July 24, 20101 Comment
Courtesy of ESPN
EDMONTON, Alberta — On the first few laps of the first practice Friday, with fresh tires and almost no other drivers around her, IndyCar racer Milka Duno lost control of her car, smashed into the tire barrier and shredded her rear wing.
It gave fellow drivers more reasons to call for the Venezuelan racer to be expelled for a driving style they say is dangerous.
“She’s obviously not up to speed,” Danica Patrick said before Duno’s crash during practice for Sunday’s Honda Indy Edmonton.
Patrick said the problem is not so much Duno’s speed as the fact she doesn’t follow accepted practice and move over when she’s a lap down to let faster drivers get by.
“I’m not against having some different speeds up there, but she’s not as gracious about her position as maybe somebody else might be,” Patrick said.
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By Administrator on July 23, 20102 Comments
Courtesy of NASCAR.com
By Raygan Swan, NASCAR.COM
Known for her breakthrough accomplishments on the race track, Lyn St. James is becoming just as popular and accomplished for the inroads she’s making off the track.
Whether she’s hired to be a motivational speaker or recruiting and developing young female talent through her foundation, St. James is just as busy today as she was when the racing pioneer was turning laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Read More
By Administrator on July 23, 2010Add Comments
Courtesy of AutomobileMag.com
Decades from now, when some clever doctoral candidate writes his or, more likely, her dissertation about the history of women in sports, the 2010 Indianapolis 500 may be cited as a watershed moment.
The scene was Pole Day, a week before the race. Shortly after a disappointing qualifying effort, Danica Patrick complained about her ill-handling car during an interview broadcast over the trackside P.A. system. Patrick is racing’s It Girl, the most recognized face and best-known body in IndyCar racing, thanks to her exposure in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. Yet the crowd responded by booing her lustily, with all the bitterness of a jilted lover.
But that wasn’t the watershed moment. No, that came a few minutes later when a twenty-one-year-old Swiss rookie by the name of Simona De Silvestro outqualified Patrick for the fifth time in six IndyCar races this season despite making her run in the heat of the afternoon-the most diabolical conditions she’d ever experienced at racing’s most daunting circuit-and taking to the track immediately after the previous driver had crashed during his run. Read More
By Administrator on July 21, 2010Add Comments
Courtesy of TheAutoChannel.com
MILLVILLE, July 20, 2010: Ashley Freiberg made some more racing history Sunday in the Skip Barber competition at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
Freiberg (pronounced FRY-BERG) became the first female driver to win a BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Series powered by Mazda main event with an exciting victory on the 2.17-mile Thunderbolt circuit during the Grand-Am weekend at the southern New Jersey racing facility.
The 18-year-old driver from Homer Glen, Ill., earlier in the year made Barber Series history when she was the first women to capture a series championship, winning the Southern Regional title this winter.
Freiberg had been close to taking her first Barber national race win this year when she took second at Virginia International Raceway in May. But a female had yet to win a Barber national event until Sunday. Read More
By Administrator on July 14, 2010Add Comments
Featured in Experience Life Magazine, courtsey of ExperienceLifeMag.com
By Laine Bergeson
Leilani Münter is a passionate environmentalist — and a rising star in the motorsports world. It may seem like a paradoxical pairing. But in Münter’s mind, that’s a good thing. She believes that the faster she drives, the easier it will be to sell her environmental message to the sport’s 100 million U.S. fans — a group not widely associated with overt ecological concern.
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By Administrator on July 11, 2010Add Comments
Courtsey of Alice-Powell.com
Alice, yesterday, closed the gap to the Championship Lead in the Formula Renault BARC Championship to just 5 points, after taking two solid second place finished at the North Yorkshire circuit of Croft.
After qualifying 5th and 4th on the grid for the races, Alice knew it was all to play for: “We did have a struggle with brake problems in qualifying, but we managed to get it sorted for the race, and I knew I had to get a good start and get ahead of my championship rivals”.
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By Administrator on July 6, 2010Add Comments
Courtesy of Wilson Security Racing..
Touring Car Masters presented by Autobarn driver, Leanne Tander has been nominated as a CAMS representative to the newly created FIA Women & Motor Sport Commission (WMC).
Australia’s most recognisable female racer, Tander was the first woman in the world to win a race in Formula 3, and the first female competitor to stand on a V8 Supercar podium.
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By Administrator on July 5, 20101 Comment
Courtsey of MilkaDuno.com..
WATKINS GLEN, NY (July 4, 2010) – IZOD IndyCar driver Milka Duno finished 23rd in today’s Camping World Grand Prix At The Glen at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, NY.
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