Unfortunately, this is fairly typical of female sportswriters who are given a national forum. Rather than wonder why members of "minority" groups aren't striving to rise to the top of some of these sports, the question they ask is why the SPORTS aren't doing more to reach out. Let's expand on this. Why hasn't Major League Baseball done a better job of "reaching out" to me and getting me a starting gig on a big-league club? Why isn't the NBA "reaching out" to little people? Why isn't the NFL "reaching out" to promote the hiring of more Chinese head coaches? Journalists with sports backgrounds believe things are simple and are settled on the field. Journalists without strong competitive sports backgrounds are used to success being determined by the subjective standards of judges or educators. They do not understand the survival of the fittest mentality, or that some people are where they are because of their own work. To them, there must have been some sort of leg-up program that helped every successful person. Danica Patrick won a mileage race against a weakened field of 18 (Every race has had 18 car fieldss before the IRL/Champcar unification - Andy), but she won it on the track. If she hadn't, the would have likely disappeared in the next few seasons. She still may. But rather than cry about there being not enough female and black drivers in the various NASCAR series, find out how many are even trying to compete (I have, and they're aplenty - Andy). Instead of implying that the racing teams, sponsors and the "league" are conspiring to keep people down, ask Oprah and Robert Johnson why they're not investing their OWN money in "their people," just to show us all how those drivers are just as good as the Jimmie Johnsons of the world. Unfortunately, Lee Spencer is apparently yet another female "journalist" who believes that sports is her personal platform from which she is entitled to spout a personal social agenda that - to be honest - no one cares to listen to. I'd rather just read about the event.
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because Danica won the race. How many races did she lose to fuel mileage strategy? 
