Go Daddy and Danica

Auto racing is more business than sport. For top driving talents being a "marketable product" is a lesser issue beacuse they can perform on the track but for those who are not or have to pay for a drive it is a different game.

Ana Kournikova is another example. I have no problem with Danica doing the Go Daddy ads and I don't even like her.

 

I don't always talk down about women in motorsports. I think Danica has a serious attitude problem, but I could say that about a lot of male drivers, too. Milka has no business in an Indycar but that is generally accepted fact (and can also be said about a lot of other drivers, male or female). Otherwise, I have no problem with women in racing.

I'm wondering where you got the idea that I do; care to cite proof?

 

1. sex sells
2. danica is not sexy
3. female driver = wider appeal to female audience

She does not win, she is purely a novelty act, how hard is that to figure out?

You know if you sit in jail for 5 years, every woman is ****able when you get out. Being the only woman in the sport, well, there ya go.

 

Danica just plain sucks (and not in the "good way") --- on and off the track.

I met her, and had a lengthy conversation with her, at PIR (Portland) when she was just starting out. She was about 18 back then; and, she was average on talent and looks, but she was an outstanding brat --- I don't see that much has changed today.

 

ROFLMAO!

 

I forgot I posted that last night. I don't think I should have been posting. My bad.

I guess it put that in since you generally do not like Danica or Milka. The only two women consistently running in IRL. I made a bad generalization about all motorsports when I should have been specific about IRL only.

I do agree thta Milka has zero business out there. But hey, wasn't she inducted into the Venezula Motorsports Hall of Fame? LOL!

As for Danica's attitude, how long can you hold her initial actions against her? She has made great strides to being more approachable in the last two years. Dan Wheldon is another that had a pissy attitude and he's changed that around.

What I'm really interested in when it comes to Danica is what happened to her team during the off season. Marco poached her team. Now he is doing better and she is not. I want the back story on that, but that's probably for another thread.

 

Correction, Danica's mother Bev handles some of her business
and PR. Perhaps explains the "granny" Go Daddy ad.

She's represented by IMG. *Has a handler named Haley Moore who is her personal PR,
but really more of a security/personal manager.

Team PR handles her in both IRL and NASCAR, but IMG has final say on what she does
when it's something important.

Danica's husband is her physio.

BHW

 

drunk posting strikes again!

My issue isn't so much with Danica's "fan friendliness", it's how she conducts herself overall...treating teammates and competitors like crap, always blaming everyone else, sense of entitlement, etc. And that isn't a pattern of behavior isolated to her, Wheldon among others are spoiled brats.

 

Not sure if this thread is about Danica in the video or getting criticizing Danica on/off driving abilities, anyway--
I thought the video was humorous, it's supposed to be over the top.
I think it made it's point.

 

Yep!!! I want her to call me daddy.

 

That's funny. The first time I went to Hooters was in Greensboro NC. The food was bad. The girls at that one were pretty good looking though. When I moved to Boise I worked at a shop close to the local one. A couple of the guys I worked with would go there a lot and always come back complaining about having the prego waitress. I found it hard to believe until we had a BS meeting there. I would think they can't fire a girl who already works there if she gets pregnant. That trip did confirm that 1. The food really sucks and 2. Sex sells becauce Hooters has no redeaming value beyond that. I do however love women with big "hooters" in good push-up bras. Is it lunch time? Lol

 

I think at the end of the day everything is about looks in terms of getting noticed (I'am not counting racing just for being noticed in the media and by the general public). If you say to some guy that knows nothing about motor racing the words "Dancia Patrick" and he sees this... He'll probably say "Isn't she that chick who did that video for Go Daddy?" Immediately he knows the company, what they do and who she is. Thats what they want, no one is going to remember a company if it has a random guy/girl on it who isn't good looking, you can say she's good looking or not thats just personal opinion but if it helps people remember a company and know what they do or sell or whatever then they will get that person. For example the Armani shoots have Megan Fox and Cristiano Ronaldo for this year and had the Beckham's last year, all good looking people and they make the public want to buy Armani clothes and underwear.

All it is, is propaganda and it's not like Dancia is going to turn it down if it does anything for her career.

 

No, it's just that if you are good looking, or have the right connections, you have the ability to raise money and can race "above your natural ability level". So what? (And I'm not saying Danica is over her head.) That trait (the sole ability to raise money putting you in a racecar) has existed forever in racing. Women are obviously not as good at road racing as men. That is why we don't see a lot of them on the grid, not because as a woman you also have to be attractive.

So you're saying that the indycar field should be down to 4 drivers? (Danica finished 5th overall last year.)

I don't see the connection. Her ads with Go Daddy are certainly above and beyond a base sponsorship; ie she is using her fame to leverage the sponsorship deal and earn some additional money. What's wrong with that?

I have more problems with her Peak ads. What the hell does she know about coolant?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4r4xLXJI9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqf9LhQ4LxY&feature=related

 

"I have more problems with her Peak ads. What the hell does she know about coolant? "

"when you peak...you perform"

what the hell does she know about performance either?

 

LOL --- Her personal tag line should be, "When I peak... I'm mediocre."

 

Katherine Legge is better than Danica too.

 

Been watching in 2010? Simona di Silvestro did pretty well in the early road courses.
(She was even leading in Brazil, for a while.)

In that pre-race show segment where they have a driver describe the course while tracing the track map blindfolded she did way better than any of the guys they had before.

I was a bit disappointed at her performance on the oval track, though.
But then, it was her first ever oval race.

So far, not a bad rookie season.


At Indy, there might be *five* women in the field.
(The three "regulars" plus Sarah Fisher plus another one -- if they make it through the abbreviated qualifying.)

---
(I just wish the pre-race interviewer would get taller chair arms, do some arm exercises, or get a lighter mic. The way she leans way over to rest her elbow on the chair arm just looks weird. And it looks like it'd give her a sore lower back.)

 

Lindy Thackston? She can lean any way she wants as far as I'm concerned...

And Simona does seem to be quite good on road courses

 

Milka was sponsored by CITGO.

CITGO is the venezuelan national oil company.

Hugo Chavez runs venezuela hence CITGO.

hmm, the plot thickens..

 

ok i hate to now become a Danica supporter but 5th place overall is pretty damn outstanding.

 

that was last year. her race package was very, very good...as long as she was able to stay out of trouble, a result like that would be expected. there are other circumstances including weight, helping her cause.

maybe she will win it this year?

as far as her performance this year...she has shown the nascar fans (and drivers) nothing! in the irl series where she is "use to running up front", she has shown...nothing!

again, maybe she will win @ indy thus keeping the media darling alive!!

pcb

 

Agreed. I definitely follow IRL. I was speaking in general over the last few seasons. We are just into 2010, so I didn't think it was yet applicable. Simona is on the learning curve right now. I hope she accelerates that curve and does well.

Yea...that's where I was going with that. Thought the whole ting was pretty stupid when I heard about her "Hall of Shame" induction.

That's what I've been saying all along, yet people constantly trash here ability. She has out driven the majority of the field over the past couple seasons. Give her credit for that.

There were shifts in personnel at Andretti. I don't know all the details, but it is my understanding that part of Marco's new contract was he was able to poach personnel from the other internal teams. Danica lost key people that had been helping give her the equipment she needed to be running up front.

So we move forward to 2010 season and low and behold...Marco is now running up front with better equipment and Danica is having trouble. The reverse of what had been happening over the past couple of seasons.

Yes, you have to have driver ability, but in a spec series as IRL has become, if you don't have top equipment and people making sound decisions behind you, you as a driver will not do well.



Now back on topic...GoDaddy ads are made to grab your attention whether you like it or not. They obviously are working because you are reading/posting in a thread about it.

 

back on topic yes...

...i have no problem w/ the go daddy ads short of danica not being hot! i actually think the real problem w/ danica is really compounded when she opens her mouth!!!

 

agreed! i don't see how anyone can complain about sexploitation when we're talking about Danica!! the common complaint is that she wouldn't be in a race car if she weren't hot, but actually she wouldn't be in a commercial/SI/whatever if she weren't a racer! otherwise she wouldn't get a second look.