[Jeff Higgins]

The best race car driver in the world is out pulling nets on the North Sea, or bagging groceries at your local Safeway.

Racing is quite unlike any other sport, in that even at a low level it takes more money than most have to spend. It's not like the "stick and ball" sports where we have achieved near saturation of opportunity from grade school on up, and the talent gets recognized.

As such, Danica merely represents what racing has always been all about - access through money. She brings it in. No talent required, at least not on the racetrack. I'll have to disagree with legion - I would bet an awful lot of the "armchair racers" on this forum would out driver her, given the same opportunities.