At some point, it stops being bad luck and just becomes “you’re not very good at this thing.”
In the same way that the all-time greats make their own good luck with extremely high levels of composure and skill, the mediocre make their own bad luck with average levels of those same traits.

If she wasn’t running in 20th+ place all the time she wouldn’t be getting caught in bad wrecks. Not only that, every time someone wrecks in front of her she seems to plow right into it, I don’t know if its that she goes into freakout mode or what, but she is the worst at avoiding wrecks. Both of these speak to the…

....huh?

doesn’t happen to good racers with nearly as much frequency. Like... the two people directly ahead of her.

counterpoint: the “It’s never Danica’s fault” circlejerk is even bigger crap

A more skilled driver would be more likely to avoid it.

Better Headline: Wreck saves Danica Patrick time by placing her where she would have finished anyway.

You might think that getting caught in a wreck is bad luck and sometimes it is. But, there is a skill to avoiding wrecks which involves a sixth sense of where the other cars are going to go. Danica has never had that ability.

Hot take: she’s not a good driver

With Danica nothing is ever her fault. The wreck was the result of:

unfortunately for everyone else she rarely put a decent race together and ended up causing the wrecks herself most of the time

water is wet

Ooo no! A driver that’s raced for over a decade and has failed to deliver any results crashed out of final race. Hardly important news IMO.

I’m from Iowa. We like to brag about how good we are with winter driving, and laugh at the dummies on the East Coast who go sliding into the ditch the moment there’s a slight dusting of snow.

NASCAR is waaaaaaaay down from where it was. I went to Dover a couple of years back and it was less than half full. But I don’t think it’s really their fault. They rode a wave of popularity that was simply not going to last. At the end of the day it is no longer the latest thing and they are seeing what is a new…

“”NASCAR stopped giving attendance estimates in its race reports around 2013, USA Today reported at the time, and said race tracks would still have the option of providing them. It seems only natural to provide the estimates when they’re as good as the Daytona 500 ones are this year—on the surface, at least.””

And at age 31, I now officially feel old seeing those names in the stages of Hall candidacy.

<Truck commercials have misled me to believe these vehicles should be able to cross this terrain.> 

It is pedantry and unfortunately you’re wrong: