Danica Patrick has admitted that she faces a double-edged sword as she plies her trade in the IndyCar Series, with the negative side of her character as likely to attract as much publicity as the positive.
While her maiden IndyCar success at Motegi captured the attention of the wider world, the Andretti Green Racing driver is as well known for her outbursts at others she feels might have wronged her on track. Labelled petulant, spoilt and beginning to believe the hype that has been built up around her by those eager for the positive publicity that she brings, Patrick's latest 'moment' saw her involved in a war of words with fellow female driver Milka Duno at Mid-Ohio.
Although Patrick claims that she merely went to ask the Venezuelan whether she had been aware of the AGR car's presence as it attempted to pass, video footage shot by a friend of Duno's suggests otherwise.
“As a driver, I am not afraid to have conversations with other drivers," Patrick admitted when asked about the incident on the eve of this weekend's Edmonton event, "But I think, in my life, I'm definitely under a close eye and there are always cameras and TVs and things around, so I just have to watch what I'm doing and where I'm doing it.
"That's probably the lesson that I have learned over the past few years, people are always watching. What can I say? It's a double-edged sword. People are always watching, but people are always watching. You do good things and that's fantastic, and then you do other things that are good or bad or just indifferent or can be something that people can draw their own opinions about. Those are the fine lines that you walk. I just have to be aware of that.”
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