Exhaust Notes for April 21, 2008

Danica Patrick Finally Wins – A few hours and 4,500 miles (flying “AirTranica”) after becoming the first female to win a major closed-course auto race, Danica Patrick was recalling to a media horde at the Long Beach street race a conversation with her Andretti Green Racing teammate last July at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course as being particularly insightful. Now, it’s also relevant.

“I was on the front row for the first time on a road course, which was great, and he said, ‘You know, when you win your first race you’re going to go, ‘I wasn’t doing anything different that day, it just happened.’ I wasn’t doing anything that different (at Twin Ring Motegi), it just happened. He was right.”

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