Racecar driver Danica Patrick knows she’s often referred to as that “girl” driver, but she’s OK with that.
Patrick visited the National Press Club in downtown D.C. on Tuesday in advance of Sunday’s Daytona 500 to talk about her racing career, explaining that when she began racing and winning on Go-Karts as a kid, she had no idea that being a “she” was a big deal. “I felt pretty cool, but at no point did I really think that it was because I was a girl,” she said of the early media attention her racing career caught. “I was always taught to just strive to be the best, it wasn’t about being the best girl.”
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That being said, the GoDaddy.com spokesmodel also said she was comfortable using her sex appeal to boost her profile. “I am going to use the package, I am going to use it for all that I am and all that I can,” she explained, saying she would never do anything outside her comfort zone. “It takes the team at least two hours, but I would rather you see me in photoshop rather than right here, right now, in real life, but it’s something that I like to do,” she said of her many commercials for the domain name and web hosting company.
Patrick also talked about her future, if any, in the entertainment industry seeing herself as a director before ever being an actor. “Well I’m not really very funny, and I’m not super duper pretty so I think, I don’t know, I think I’d rather be on the other side of the camera,” she said. “I almost feel like it’s a little bit more artistic.”
