[The Champ]

Originally Posted by ho428

No one has claimed she is a Champion, she's a mid level racer as was Tony Stewart and many others in their first few years.

Here you are, again, trying to compare Wanica to Tony....

Tony had 5 top five finishes in Busch (Nationwide) in 1998 running a part time schedule 22 race NASCAR ride and a full time Indy car schedule.

Let me repeat that - 5 Top Five's!

Tony had already won MULTIPLE CHAMPIONSHIPS.

As a rookie in Cup, he finished 4th in the points.

That is not a "midlevel racer by any credible standard.

Wanica has 1 top five finish in 3 years and 58 Nationwide races. She's won a single race in her entire automobile racing career and has never won an automobile racing championship at any level.

And her "midlevel racer" performance in both Indy Car and NASCAR has been accomplished only because of her TOP LEVEL equipment and crews.

Last year in the Nationwide series, Wanica finished in 10th place with 838 points for the season, running the best equipment money could buy and every race.

Contrast that to Joe Nemechek who finished 11th with 816 points running a bargain basement team and only making 32 races.

There were only 13 drivers in Nationwide that ran all 33 races. So that 10th place finish might look good until you realize that she was in 10th place out of 13 competitors.

She isn't a mid level racer - she's a bottom feeder. She only finished ahead of low budget teams that don't have the equipment or crews to be competitive.

Her current main squeeze, Ricky Stenhouse, won the title with 1251 points. The top 6 in points were all over 1,000 points. The top 8 in points all had over 900 points. The worst point total for those that ran all 33 races was still over 700 points.

A "mid level" racer should have had at least 1,000 points in last year's Nationwide series.

Wanica wasn't even close...