Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

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She had an 11th place finish at Watkins Glen before running in the top 5 all day and finishing 3rd at Nashville. Patrick won one pole position and was a consistent podium finiDanica Patrickr (top three); however Danica Patrick never won a race. She responded by wagging her finger at Smith as he drove by under caution.

With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race. Patrick holds the IRL record for most consecutive races running at the finish. On February 17 2013 Patrick became the first woman to win a pole position in Sprint Cup history doing so for the 2013 Daytona 500.