Danica Patrick

DAYTONA BEACH - There have been a laundry listing of theories and solutions about how NASCAR can regain its popularity, rekindle its TV rankings and recapture its fan base.

The concepts have ranged from a brand new points system to shorter races to uniform start times to drivers reconnecting with fans and exhibiting extra coloration and candidness.

These are all advantageous ideas, but I have a better one that is way more foolproof and far much less complex:

Danica.

t's it.

Simply Danica.

Thank you very much, NASCAR.

Just ship that $10 million you had been going to spend on consultants to my mailing tackle at the Orlando Sentinel.

Identical to that, I've saved the sport. I've given Brian France and his fellow NASCAR fits the concept, but now it is as much as them to do everything of their huge power to implement it and make Danica Patrick a relevant.

The movers and shakers of NASCAR have been accused by previous conspiracists of scripting race outcomes like Richard Petty winning No. 200 on the Fourth of July in Daytona with President Ronald Reagan in attendance or Dale Earnhardt Jr. winning the Pepsi four hundred in the first race again at Daytona only some months after his father perished within the Daytona 500. I don't essentially consider it, but when there's a shred of truth to what the conspiracy theorists say then NASCAR may need to contemplate choreographing a situation that that might turn Danica Patrick into a champion.

Better but, how about a script that might have Danica barreling past Dale Earnhardt Jr. and knocking him and Jimmie Johnson into the wall as she wins the Daytona 500?

"That would get everybody's blood pumping, wouldn't it?" said veteran driver Mark Martin when asked how much it will elevate the game if Danica ever turned a factor.

She's acquired everything NASCAR could presumably want apart from the fact that her identify is not Danica Earnhardt Jr. She's acquired the character, the pizzazz, the zeal, the intercourse attraction, the media adoration and fan adulation. And he or she certainly has the fire and desire.

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