Indy Car catfight
Racecar drivers have a tendency to lose their tempers. It's not rare to see them hurling their helmets at passing cars, T-boning someone during a caution lap, or extending their middle fingers at a race official. If we're lucky, these moments are caught by television cameras, and replayed incessantly. I can't think of a hilite I enjoy more than watching 2 burly, sweaty men in jumpsuits a size-too-small chase each other around a garage.
But the advent of women . . . excuse me, the advent of Danica Patrick in motorsports has changed the dynamic a little bit. She has quite the temper, that one, and has confronted other drivers on a few, well-publicized occasions. But here's the difference between Danica and most of the other drivers- when they become enraged, there's a good chance someone might get kicked; when Danica becomes enraged, there's a good chance she might get choked up.
That's not funny. It's kind of annoying.
And don't read into this as a man vs. woman stereotype. When I was a kid, I got into plenty of arguments with my mother, and believe me, she was never the one left near tears. Or how about my female colleagues? Not exactly the crying types.
Neither is Milka Dunno- the other female driver in the Indy Car circuit. She's no less emotional than Danica, but she expresses it like most of the male drivers out there- with borderline violence. Here's a look at a confrontation between the two over the weekend in Ohio.