Tastybooze’s favorite Indy Racer, Danica Patrick, is going to have an even tougher time getting that first career victory (after 47 try’s) going forward. The IRL has instituted a rule that minimum weight of an IRL car must now include the driver, which means that Danica’s car will have to be heavier in other places in order to make up for her 100-pound frame. And of course, a lighter car means more speed. In fact, rival teams guesstimate that Danica gains an edge of up to 1 mph because of her tiny waist. The only two other women in the circuit are comparable fatties at 120+ pounds each. And most of the male drivers are in the 150’s range.
I don’t really have an opinion on the rule change. If it makes it more fair for everyone, I suppose its fine. But if it purposefully ostracizes one individual, then we have a problem (it’s like saying you can’t be above 7′5″ in basketball because it isn’t fair to the others - sorry Yao). Especially if that individual is hot and someone I want to continue to look for another decade or so during my 3x daily Sportcenter moments (breakfast, dinner, before bed).
Source: Yahoo! Sports
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This is nothing new, as horce racing has done this for years. From Wikipedia: Graded stakes races in the United States and Canada, or conditions races as they are referred to in England and France, are higher-class races for bigger prizes. They often involve competitors that belong to the same gender, age and class. These races may, though, be “weight-for-age”, with weights adjusted only according to age, and also there are “set weights” where all horses carry the same weight. Furthermore, there are “conditions” races, in which horses carry weights that are set by conditions, such as having won a certain number of races, or races of a certain value.