Trailblazer: Danica Patrick at the Brickyard
There will be plenty of media attention on Danica Patrick at Indianapolis, but as Matt Beer writes, the woman herself just hopes that it is for the right reasons
Danica Patrick's breakthrough victory at Motegi was a momentous occasion for the IRL IndyCar Series and the wider motorsport world.
But for this historic event to happen at a flyaway race that was already delayed by a day due to rain and finally finished just before 1:00am Indianapolis time was perhaps less than ideal from a marketing perspective.
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