Jun03
Danica Patrick's SI Swimsuit Shoot! “bad remarks about doping”
In an interview with Dan Patrick published in Sports Illustrated, Danica Patrick was asked, if she could take a performance-enhancing drug and not get caught, would she do it if it allowed her to win the Indianapolis 500. "Well, then it's not cheating, is it? If nobody finds out?'' she said. Dan Patrick responded: "So you would do it?'' Danica's answer: "Yeah, it would be like finding a gray area. In motorsports, we work in the gray areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.'' Danica Patrick later said her answers were a joke and she apologized if they came across differently. "It was a bad joke,'' she said in an interview published on the USA Today Web site. "There is a lot of sensitivity in our culture about (performance-enhancing drugs). With all the baseball stuff, I've followed it and this is a real problem. It's a shame kids think they have to do this to get ahead. It's very dangerous.'' Patrick's agent, Lewis Kay, told The Associated Press that Patrick felt she had "addressed the matter thoroughly with her comments to USA Today.'' Patrick finished third at Indy last month. Her contract with Andretti Green Racing expires after this year and there's speculation about her possibly moving to NASCAR or Formula One. NASCAR, meanwhile, is taking a much more active approach against drugs in the garage. Six crew members and driver Jeremy Mayfield have been suspended since NASCAR began random testing this year. Tygart said he was glad Patrick apologized for her comments.
[Source: Fan House | Images: SI.com]
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