She had some funny moments such as fighting Denny Hamlin and being the only Nascar driver in history to take herself out instead of the driver she was trying to wreck, but she was largely an irrelevant, mediocre driver whose career was only kept afloat for so long due to corporate astroturfing- in a sense, the proto-Bubba Wallace.
Danica didn't so much as "Fight" Virginia's Finest Crybaby (Hamlin was a notorious on-track bully who went full pussybitch when Joey Logano had enough of his shit and pitted him into a wall, concussing him) as it was more like an awkward dispute between some guy and his ex-wife (especially when you hear the audio). Oh, there was that time when
Danica allegedly threatened to kick Alex Bowman in the balls, and that time when
she created an entire clothing line solely because she discovered "Native American" Lore in Arizona, replete with fake totem eagles and all. Plus, the temper tantrums she spewed on her team radio are the stuff of legend.
And yes despite all of this, I consider racing drivers "athletes". To not do so is a No True Scotsman, especially considering the actual harm they face on the track, namely the risk of death despite years of advancements in safety tech. Especially considering that drivers, crew, marshals and even spectators are still killed on the track to this day, and in the case of Rallying, on the roads as well.
What's not "the stuff of legend" is this dopey slob of a "guy":
Say hello to Jon Allen Herb (born 1st of June 1970 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America), slow-as-shit Indycar and ARCA driver and Convicted Paedophile.
Herb's career was pathetic and slow, his only "notable" highlight as a driver was willing the essence of a thousand creepy gym teachers and finished 9th at Texas Motor Speedway in October 2001, nearly a full month after 9/11 happened. It was his only top-ten finish and soon after, he would barely finish in any of the subsequent seasons in Indycar, even failing to qualify for the Indy 500 twice. The only "other" highlight? Winning an Indy Lights (now known as "Indy NXT") race in Phoenix, Arizona, contributing to a 7th place table finish by the end of the 2005 season with 364 points, in a mediocre field that had drivers 10-15 years his junior (including one Scott Mansell, now known as "Driver 61" on YouTube) and yes, "his junior" would prove to be an aspect of foreshadowing as on the 4th of October 2013, his wife would make a horrorcow-level discovery: It turns out that after Herb sold his cars to former CART/Champ-Car teams in the aftermath of Champ-Car's memetic implosion, he used tons of that money to not only store gigabytes of Child Porn on his Laptop and other computers but also produce child porn of himself engaging in sexual activity with a four-year-old girl in his hometown of North Naples, Collier County, Florida.
Naturally, the police vanned this faggot hard and swift, tagging him on 246 charges of child pornography production, possession and solicitation before the subsequent trial. It was reduced to 13 at the end of the trial and on the 4th of January 2016, (after pleading "no contest" LOL) Jon Allen Herb was sentenced to 25 years in Prison and a Lifetime Probation for those 13 counts of possessing child porn and is currently incarcerated in some prison in Florida where he is presumably getting the shit kicked out of him/raped/potentially having someone plotting his inevitable death because, under Florida Law, Herby the Pervy is expected to serve 85% of his sentence, though considering how the State of Florida and most Floridians (including Null) despise pedo-wiggers like Herby here, not only is he going to serve all 25 years, he's also going to be likely forced by both economical circumstances and by social ostracism to live in a commune dedicated to housing sex offenders in the Sunshine State for the rest of his life when he gets out in 2041, by that point, Herb will be 70/71-years-old and poor, so if you do find yourself in Miracle Village, FL 17 years from now (at the time of this post's writing) you may find a balding Herby in the wild, don't post his ugly geriatric face here, but you CAN write to us about seeing him in the wild for the lulz.
Herby's not the only pedo-cunt in Motorsports either, the land of fast cars, ovals, desolate road courses that rednecks, middle-aged anoraks and 20-30 something autistic fantards on the Internet like EmpLemon, Josh Rivell and their teenaged, terminally on Discord, Twitter and Reddit ilk sperg over online also has another vile man on most prisoners' kill lists:
This is Gary Thomas Brabham (born 29th of March 1961 in Wimbledon, Surrey (now in the London Borough of Merton), United Kingdom) Middle son of Three-time Formula One Champion Sir Jack Brabham. Comically sluggish driver for Life in 1990 and an all-around cancerous blob of a human being who is "absolutely not" on anyone's kill list, allegedly.
For reasons that are mostly linked to daddy Jack's name, Gary's career, like his more successful elder brother (and multiple times endurance racing champion at IMSA in addition to winning Le Mans in 1993)
Geoff and Younger Brother (also a Le Mans winner, this time in 2009 for the same marque as Geoff, Peugeot)
David initially began in single-seaters. The general public didn't give a shit about him so Jack had to use his clout and riches to build a team for him to even compete in British Formula Three for the 1986 season. The only positive thing I can rationally say about Gary is that unlike Herby who was memetically slow, retarded and erratic to the point where he often couldn't turn left on an Oval at any speed is that some of that fast driver gene was passed down to him and he was often able to show what he COULD do in a car (such as challenging Australian Touring Car veteran and
Orgone Energy Advocate Peter Brock at 1987 Bathurst 1000, defeating Eddie Jordan's legendary feeder series (and in later years, F1 efforts) in the inaugural British F3000 Championship in 1989 (which included a driver field that contained Damon Hill, Roland Ratzenberger, Perry McCarthy, and winning the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1991 alongside his elder brother Geoff and absolute mad lad and completely engorged man of culture, in addition to one of Ireland's favourite sons who
isn't a terrorist,
Derek Daly for Nissan. Gary would also mentor Comedian and Actor
Rowan Atkinson CBE (or "Mr Bean" and "Blackadder" in the minds of non-car fans) and Olympic Equestrian medalist (Gold at Munich 1972, yes, the one where the Israelis got gunned down and Mossad agents got detained by the Norwegians for killing one of the gunmen there, and Silver at Seoul 1988 )
Captain Mark Phillips, first husband of Princess Anne, the sister of current (at time of writing) Limeystan Monarch and Cancer Patient, Charles III.
However, Gary is best known for driving at
Life, one of the slowest racing teams of all time, he lasted for
two races in the 1990 Formula One season, failing to pre-qualify at both Phoenix, Arizona and Interlagos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. At Pheonix, Brabham set a time of
2:07.147, this was
35.855 seconds slower than the Pole Time set by Gerhard Berger (
1:28.664, which was the Q1 time, because the later sessions were called off due to rain, qualifying was also notable for Ken Tyrrell signing for Pirelli over Goodyear two days before the race, after 18 years and multiple titles won with Goodyear-clad rubber, due to the US brand's inability to deal with wet weather, in
Arizona, a state known for having occasional monsoon-level rains). At Brazil, Brabham's Life threw a connecting rod, 400 meters in, on his first lap. Gary left Life in disgust. Poetically ironic, considering his later actions.
An image containing several articles detailing Gary's woeful time at Life Racing Engines, a 9-man team of Italian Privateers who thought it was a good idea to race around the world with a heavy, slow W12 Engine. Of note for Gary's future, of course, are the "
Brabham gets two two-year Life sentence" and "
Gary's Life expectancy" article titles. Sourced via the hive of motorsport Autism that is the Formula One Subreddit.
After retiring in 1995 due to complications relating to being too slow and irrelevant to race anymore.
Eight years later, Gary Brabham would rape a 6-year-old girl in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He also molested the girl again in 2007. The victim, who can't be named because Australia loves censorship, described to police that Gary the Groper would digitally insert his fingers "...inside her vagina as she sat on his lap, wearing shorts, while he drove a car". Because Australia is a
shithole former-Limey Penal Colony, they allowed this creepy cunt to censor his name during the hearings in 2009, which sent him to a high-security jail in Wacol, a Brisbane suburb for the charges of "
Indecent dealing with a minor under 12 years". They also allowed him to serve a light sentence. He was convicted again in 2016 under separate charges of one count of Rape and one count of "Indecent treatment of a Child, then aged six". Of note are two things 1) The minor only told her mother of her ordeal in 2013 due to fear and passive intimidation of Gary's family name and 2)
Gary's defence attorney and greater defence team pleaded with the judge (one Brad Farr SC) to have the victim's families leave separately because they were worried that a fight of Scottish Wedding proportions might arise. Though Justice Farr reminded them that he already requested extra security inside the courtroom for the case specifically for the hypothetical scenario where a fight MIGHT happen, he did, however, order (under strict recommendation) both families (the minor's family and the Brabham family) to depart the courtroom separately and silently, which the victim's family and the then-19-year-old victim herself (at the time of the court trial in March 2016) complied, without encountering any member of the Brabham family.
Unfortunately, the sentencing was equally lax and pathetic, as Geoff was only convicted to 18 months of prison time and despite
his appeal in September 2016 deservedly failing, was released early on
"compassionate grounds" after six months.
YES, you've heard that right motherfuckers, SIX MONTHS!
Of course, you're not the only ones pissed off by this verdict. The people of the State of Queensland were also infuriated, sickened and angered by such laxness demonstrated by the State's woeful court system. To the point where they drafted a petition on Change dot org to protest the decision AND other related decisions of leniency towards sex offenders and other paedophiles. It contains such gems as "Queensland’s child sex offender sentences are weak and offensive – they need urgent review. These dangerous laws sicken me", and "The judge reported that Gary showed ‘no remorse’. He even tried to appeal this lenient sentence. He’s now out, free to abuse innocent victims again." and my personal favourite, which sums up the level of failure that Queensland's legal system has demonstrated "Yet the Queensland justice system is allowing this behaviour, continuing to fail abused children, knowingly letting a child sex offender walk our streets." Need I say more?
Currently, the petition is still active. Why am I telling you this? And why am I even linking the Change dot org petition? Because right now as I am typing this post, it's at 185,297 signatures, and they need 200,000 for the public inquiry to even reach the State level in Queensland. If you're as upset about pedophiles as the people who created the petition, I am going to break the rules both on Kiwi Farms and Encyclopaedia Dramatica and recommend to all users here and elsewhere that YOU SIGN THE PETITION AND PROMOTE IT ONLINE! As Australia doesn't have a public sex offender registry, who knows what Gary is doing now? Unlike Jon Herb (who is eating a Florida Prison Delicacy with extra Semen and fists, face first, courtesy of his fellow inmates) and many lolcows listed on this forum, we do not know where Gary Brabham is, nor do we know if he isn't molesting children as we speak. Gary is currently 62, going on 63-years-old as of February 2024. There is no doubt in my mind that Gary WILL offend again, or is still molesting children right now. The bastard is a habitual sexual deviant and is more than willing to spend several years molesting a single child and use his clout to silence her for many years. This man is unfit to roam the outside world, he is too depraved to touch the same grass as any of us here or anywhere on this fucked up planet we call Planet Earth.
It's your choice to make a change after all.