Boys, move over! The Lady is coming through!
I remember watching the Indianapolis 500 years back (2005), when Danica Patrick was still kind of a rookie. On that day, she took the lead in the race near the end and everybody was on their feet to watch the first woman to lead a Indy race in history. What a rush of adrenaline! She ended up finishing in fourth, but nobody ever forgot to watch out for her on the tracks!
Finally, this Sunday, with only 3 laps to go, Danica took the lead and won Indy Japan 300, making history being the first woman to win an Indycar race.
The thing is, it doesn’t really matter if you are into car races or not (I am totally into that having been in one in my home country), seeing a woman’s victory for the first time in a sport that the only thing you see around is men, men, men and more men, is a big deal. You can notice that by reading some commentaries in the press today and by the way the ESPN narrated her victory:
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