The re-emergence of Danica Mania.

Let the Danica-mania ensue!  Or not.  


Twitter-sphere was alive and well since, of course, it is race day.  Great comments all around from bloggers and fans.  


Important news items:
1.  Milka was true to form; she managed to race full speed into a smoke cloud, crash, and finish last.  
2.  Nelson Piquet Jr. will now know the wrath of Nascar nation; he got into Danica.  
3.  Danica finishes 6th.  
4.  DW is swooning over Danica.  


So, what does all this mean?  One thing that surprised me was the feistiness that Danica displayed while racing.  I was also surprised by her car control.  Do not glean from these comments that I thought poorly of her driving ability previously.  You're wrong.  Danica has displayed talent before, but never this aggressive style.  She did seem to lack a little discipline, but that will be learned.  


Steph (@99forever) from planet-IRL.com tweeted this, "Okay, kids.. the end of that was actually pretty good. And you gotta hand it to Danica. She looked good at the end. But what does that mean?"  She has a point and a good one at that.  There are a couple ways to interpret this.  First, indycar skeptics can claim that she hasn't made a display like this in indycars.  Point taken.  The other point is more relevant, though.  Danica achieved a top-10 finish in her first ARCA start.  That, readers, is good work.  The best thing I see is that she won't be the latest laughing-stock in the string of crossovers.  Sure, she hasn't run a Busch, err, Nationwide Series race yet, but this result should shut up the Nascar skeptics for the first few races.  Now, if we could get the over-zealous commentators to mention more IICS statistics.  


The commentators annoyed the crap out of me.  If you didn't know better, you'd think Danica had never driven a car before the way they talked.  WRONG!  That would be yet another reason I was glad to see that save of hers; DW freaked out because she controlled her car like an indycar driver.  Hmm, that's probably because she is one.  Who knew?  


Recall the Piquet Jr. reference?  I have a theory on this one.  One indycar fan, Brandon (@bmnehls) had this to say, "Poor Piquet is going to be hated forever now..." He's got it right, you know.  Danica is driving for JR, the beloved of Nascar Nation.  Combine that with her popularity and plenty of fans will get on the Danica bandwagon.  I pity the driver who wrecks her and arouses the wrath of Nascar Nation.  Hey look, that former F1 driver, Piquet Jr, wrecked her.  That should inspire a bit of fear.  If not, just remember that Nascar Nation is much bigger than IndyCar Nation, tends to be much less illogical in its arguments and is just as unforgiving.  I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole.  Note to Piquet: Quit now before you piss off anyone else.  Just do it.   


That's all I've got for now.  It hasn't been a surprising day for IndyCar Nation.  The way I see it, we got some good publicity today.  Thanks, Danica.  


Oh wait, one last question:  how long do we have to wait for an IndyCar race?