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Danica Patrick: I Want To Be “The Best Driver And Not The Best Girl” Driver

Racecar driver Danica Patrick broke records this weekend by becoming the fastest female and second woman in Nascar history to get a pole position in the three major touring series. Don’t know what that means? Here’s what you need to know: it’s a big, important deal. But Patrick doesn’t want attention for being a record-breaking woman — she wants attention for being a record-breaking driver.

“I really don’t think about it from a girl perspective,” she tells USA Today. “I’ve been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver. My dad’s here, so he can attest to the fact that when we’d go out go-karting, and I’d be a half-second quicker than everyone, and he was still ticked off and not happy and we kept working.

She adds: “It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.”

And best driver indeed. She said all this after getting out of a car that she’d been driving at 182.7 miles per hour. Next time you get stopped for speeding, just think of that.

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