After 10 races, let's put Danica's season into perspective.
She has the same quality of equipment as Denny Hamlin and Mark Martin.
Mark is a part time driver and in 2 less races has 207 points.
Denny has missed 4 races and has 155 points.
Danica has made all 10 races and has 180 points.
There is a reason that Danica is in 27th placie in the point standings.
There are only 7 drivers that have less points than her that have competed in all 10 races. Bobby Labonte is 3 points back, David Gilliland and Dave Blaney are 7 behind - all with underfunded teams. Further behind are JJ Yeley, David Reutimann, Travis Kvapil and Josh Wise - also underfunded teams.
27th may sound "fair" when you consider that 43 cars start each race.
But when you realize that it's not always the same 43 drivers in the same 43 cars, one realizes that 27th place sucks.
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