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Danica Patrick Just misses Pole at Montegi

23 year-old rookie race driver Danica Patrick just missed getting the pole position for the Indy Racing League race in Montegi Japan. Sam Hornish beat her by a nose. This is a good omen for Ms. Patrick who has to hold up the honor of the whole female gender in open-wheeled racing now that Sarah Fisher has made a "lateral" move to the Nascar minor leagues.

Good luck Danica. The racing world can be cruel to nontraditional drivers. One driver was nicknamed "Toonces" after the cat who could drive a car "but not very well." Still, Hiro Matsushita would have loved to have the nickname "Toonces". In the 1990's, he was known as the "moving chicane". a nickname that Emerson Fittipaldi gave him when Emmo had a hard time getting around Hiro in a race in Phoenix.


Hornish, Patrick on front row in Japan