In our opinion, this is just lazy swimsuit issuing.
Danica Patrick is the least attractive ‘hot’ female athlete (are racecar drivers even athletes?) of all time, and posing her on a car is completely schlocky and unimaginative. Plus, let’s face it…we have all seen the video of her bitching out the infinitely hotter Milka Duno. Patrick is well-known to be a harpy shrew in an embarrassingly unpopular sport, and above all, she isn’t even any good.
Which leads us to believe one of her desperate sponsors probably demanded her inclusion in exchange for some guaranteed ad buys.
Isn’t the notion of the swimsuit issue kinda antiquated by now anyway? Doesn’t SI have the temerity to showcase female athletes on the way up their respective career ladders? Seriously. Danica Patrick? If they were gonna bore the hell outta us, they should have just trotted out Kournikova and moved on.
(as a 29 year subscriber, we feel obliged to make this comment, so suck it.)
