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Just a little something I found on the web.


One guy rates Danica based on his own criteria for what is hot.

Another installment in my series "Once in a Lifetime", featuring articles from the past about Danica.

Female driver Danica Patrick, at 20, is that good.

COPYRIGHT 2002 The Orlando Sentinel

Byline: Ed Hinton

INDIANAPOLIS _ Probably the best female driver in the world _ and certainly the woman most likely to set world motor racing on its ear _ isn't competing here, or at Monaco or Charlotte, this month.

Danica Patrick is sitting home in Rockford, Ill., in a sort of trans-Atlanti… Continue

(Part of an ongoing collection of historic articles about Danica.)

May 23, 2005

Danica plans to deliver at Indy

By Tom Weir, USA TODAY

INDIANAPOLIS — Although she's only 5-1 and three-quarters and 105 pounds, Danica Patrick has an iron-grip handshake that instantly conveys the intensity that helps make her the first woman with a genuine chance to win the Indianapolis 500.

"That's her trademark," says Lyn St. James, the seven-time Indy 500 driver who mentored Patrick as… Continue

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...news from the pits

by DanicaFans, syndicated columnist

Indianapolis - Mattel, Inc., whose Hot Wheels miniature cars have been collected by auto enthusiasts since 1968, has hit its first snag in the company's storied history. It was recently announced that a new series of cars based on the open wheel rockets of the Indy Racing League (IRL) were being introduced, and the first production model off the line has a problem, leading the Department of Consumer Affairs… Continue

Byline: Ed Hinton, The Orlando Sentinel May 12, 2005

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ That a 23-year-old woman was the fastest _ by far _ in this week's rookie orientation for the May 29 Indianapolis 500 may astonish some people. But it doesn't surprise me a bit that Danica Patrick has, as my wife says, "given a whole new meaning to `You go, girl.''

In 1997, with the 500 dropping in international esteem because of the split with CART, I sat in Lyn St. James' garage in Gasoline Alley and mused to… Continue