Easier to be a female racing driver in US than UK says IndyCar's Danica
Cover girl, swimsuit model, a woman in what is very much a man’s world – oh, and IndyCar Series race-winner too – Danica Patrick has revealed in an engaging interview that she has no intention of moving across the Pond to join the F1 circus , reasoning that ‘something that’s very important to me is having fun’. For all that she is now a leading name on the US scene, Patrick actually learned the majority of her craft in the UK alongside a group of fellow drivers she refers to as the F1 ‘brat pack’, after relocating from Illinois to Milton Keynes at the age of only 16 as a hugely promising karting ace.
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| One factor that she appreciated rather less in Britain, however, was what she perceived as the ingrained sexism in motor racing, worse than in her homeland even with the likes of former NASCAR hero Kyle Petty cruelly describing her on air as ‘just a marketing machine’ more interested in looking good than racing well. |
Source: Easier to be a female racing driver in US than UK says IndyCar's Danica
