Thursday, February 15, 2007

Move Over Danica

Although Danica Patrick is the media darling of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the IRL’s first lady racer has just been announced as part of a two car effort for Dreyer & Reinbold.

Sarah Fisher will return to the cockpit full-time in 2007 with beleaguered ex-Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice. Rice was released from Rahal/Letterman Racing at the end of last year, while Fisher struggled to regain a ride in the IRL…

Meanwhile speculation suggests that if Larry Cahill can get his hoped for IRL team up and running it will feature another female driver, Milka Duno. This would give the IRL three bonafied females on the track…

And while Patrick was busy gussying herself up for a Playboy “shin-dig” in Miami the night before the Super Bowl, her arch nemesis Katherine Legge was busy accepting her Speed TV award for best “wall-smack…”