Sex Clearly Sells

It’s no secret that sex sells.  I put up a blog post about “Girls and Boys Gone Wild” and I set a Grant’s Rant record for blog traffic.  It’s the same reason Texas Motor Speedway came up with these brilliant billboards advertising the Bombardier Learjet 550 at TMS on June 7th.

Danica Patrick is hot.  Not just on the race track, not just in her racing suit, not just in the media but also in a bikini.  She is single handedly luring in race fans who were not always race fans.  Before Tiger Woods inner city minorities would never have been caught dead playing golf.  Tiger transformed the game of golf, where it’s now more about Tiger then it is about the sport itself.

Danica is doing the same thing.  Young women are idolizing her for succeeding in what was traditionally a mans game.  Men are worshipping her for just being sexy Danica.  When was the last time you saw an Andretti or an Earnhardt or an Unser or a Foyt posing in a Speedo.  Thank God the answer is never.  Instead Danica gets an entire spread in the Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Edition.

What makes this all so great is that unlike Annika Sorenstam on the PGA Tour, Danica Patrick is a contender and almost always has a chance to win.

And since sex sells, I couldn’t resist putting up a picture of her billboard!  In fact, I’ll even show it again.

The Knockout Get’s Knocked Out – Danica Wants to Fight

Danica Patrick hasn’t been knocked out of a race in 4 years.  Yesterday, it happened. (See post below where I said it would)  The old saying is there is nothing worse then a woman’s scorn.  Patrick was so angry about getting blind sided while trying to pull out of her pit stall she actually got out of the car and stormed towards Ryan Briscoe, the driver who hit her.

Patrick, all 100 pounds of her looked like she was ready to throw punches.  Briscoe blamed the crash on Patrick insisting, “These cars have brakes too!”  Some how I think that comment is only going to infuriate Patrick even more.

Lets face it, Patrick is good for racing.  She wins we love it, she gets knocked out, I write about it.  Without Danica Patrick there is no way I am writing about the Indy 500!  Two days in a row, no less!  

Danica Patrick Pics Here

You probably clicked here for the Danica Patrick Pictures, so I won’t disappoint you.  But what this post is really about is the Danica Patrick Pick for today’s Indy 500.  Car Racing’s resident glamour girl, Danica Patrick is good, but today she won’t be good enough to win the Indy 500.

Vegas odds makers put her at 8-1 to win and 3-1 to finish in the top three.  My gut tells me, she won’t even do that, for some strange reason I have a feeling she won’t even finish the race today.  But if she does win, I’ll be happy to eat my words.   It will just give me an excuse to post more pictures of Danica, that I know drives lots of traffic to this blog. (No pun intended)

My pick to you win the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” Marco Andretti.  Vegas has him at 8-1.