A week after Danica Patrick won an IndyCar race, Ashley Force became the first woman to win an NHRA Funny Car race. Congratulations to Ashley Force! Exciting stuff going on in auto racing.
In the meantime, stripped studs on her right wheel knocked Danica Patrick out of the Road Runner Turbo Indy 300 at Kansas Speedway. Her car had significant issues all day and while she had remained on the lead lap until the car was pulled, it seems like she would have been hard-pressed to win, especially given how well the Target/Chip Ganassi cars were racing that day. And, by the way, fuel was a factor once again, as Scott Dixon led most of the race and went into the pit about 2-3 laps before eventual winner Dan Wheldon. A crash put the race on yellow flag just as Dixon was coming out of the pit. Wheldon (along with others) was able to pit under yellow, lose less track time while pitting, and win the race. I have seen some acknowledgement of this vis-a-vis Danica Patrick, but there hasn't seemed to have been quite the amount of discourse about it being "only a fuel win, not a skill win" that appeared when Patrick won.
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