Bitterness against Danica begins in NASCAR paddock

When the male NASCAR drivers begin to resent all the media coverage Danica Patrick is getting, look for them to stuff her in the wall each and every race.

The male drivers in NASCAR are already beginning to resent how the NASCAR media is ga-ga over Danica Patrick because she is sexy and good looking. When your biggest star isn't your best athlete, your race series is just a circus.

Her following was most evident in the press room at Daytona. After Patrick crashed, 90 percent of the media there to cover the race, barreled out of the media center in pursuit of a sound bite from Patrick. The crash itself was nothing spectacular. By NASCAR standards, it was pretty boring.

A short time later, when Dale Earnhardt Jr. flipped his car and slid down the front straight on his roof, nary a single media member left to immediately check on his condition or get a quote.

“The only thing I will say is that TV has been doing a horrible job because they’ve been covering her way too much …," Kyle Busch told SpeedTV. “You’ve got all these people watching TV and they want to hear about Danica. Well then take advantage of that and show the less-funded team, the underprivileged people that want to have funding so they can race the rest of the year. Danica is only going to be here for 12 races or whatever it is this year. It would help the rest of those teams that want to try to make a full run at it get the coverage that they need and the exposure that they deserve to try to race the full season. Just my opinion."