Danica Patrick is doing quite well in the Indycar series for your info:
After 8 races, she has 5 top 5 finishes, 7 top 10 finishes, and is currently 5th in points, 60 points behind first place driver Dario Franchitti.
You need one of those "sarcasm" thingies they use at the DUmp! Danica is in the Tony George Joke League. Most of the IRL cars don't have enough sponsorship to pay for their fuel. Only five or six have any chance to win. Now that Tony has been thrown out of the family business, it's hard to see how his league, or IMS for that matter, will survive. Danica has brought in big money with her bikini spreads and commercials, but even with the lion's share of the money and a pitiful league for competition, she's won only once and has not threatened to win a second.
I hope I'm wrong, and Sarah Palin does not become the Danica Patrick of politics, but I think she's fighting long odds after this move.
But, hey, a couple of years ago, who would have thought a muslim from Kenya could be elected president?