Sign up to our NASCAR newsletter here.<\/a><\/p>\nPatrick was even more pointed in her criticism of Martin Truex Jr., saying her issues with him extended well beyond racing etiquette.<\/p>\n
“You know, I just felt like on track, he was such a dick when he didn’t need to be,” she said. “He’d drive way too close when he was lapping me, get me loose – just stupid stuff like that. It seemed very disrespectful and unnecessarily aggressive.”<\/p>\n
She also touched on her disapproval of Truex’s relationship with longtime partner Sherry Pollex. “I always thought he could have done a better job with her. I know I caught a lot of flack for saying that not long ago.”<\/p>\n
Still, Patrick stood by her remarks, saying, “People texted me and said, ‘You said what we wanted to say.’ Plenty of people were like, ‘Go, girl – you’ve got more balls than I do.'”<\/p>\n
As for Hamlin, while Patrick called him “a total ass on the track,” she offered a more nuanced take, acknowledging his strategic approach to racing.<\/p>\n
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“I don’t think he’s as bad as some, but he’s definitely aggressive. I think he waits for his moment a little later. He’s not just doing it from the beginning just to do it-he waits until later in the race. He’s a ‘lay a fender’ kind of guy,” she said.<\/p>\n
Still, she hasn’t forgotten their on-track run-ins. “He took me out in practice – got so close to me and spun me. That kind of stuff was totally unnecessary,” she recalled of an incident at Daytona.<\/p>\n
Patrick emphasized that her opinions were shaped by firsthand experience and that others in the garage might see things differently.<\/p>\n
“This is my truth, my experience-also my opinions. Everyone’s going to have different ones.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR and IndyCar driver Danica Patrick didn’t hold back during an appearance on Kenny Wallace’s podcast in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-46076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}