Two Indy drivers 60 years apart: Danica Patrick never met Ed Elisian

A pre-season lull in the high school sports action provides a little space to revive topics which went rolling past without time or space when they were on the table. One of those topics was the retirement of Danica Patrick who raced in the Indianapolis 500 for the last time.

The news scribes again cranked up about Patrick’s career at Indianapolis, and later in Nascar. More than one of the writers took her to task for never really getting the job done.

Patrick has been criticized for making millions off self promotion and endorsements as a woman race car driver, but never bringing home the tro...