Danica Patrick was captured in a Facebook live video pleading with a group of fans that were booing her Friday at Pocono Raceway to be more supportive and telling them, “I’m a (expletive) person, you know. I’m a person, too. I have feelings, too.”
Danica Patrick asks fans to stop booing her
Danica Patrick confronted a group of fans who were booing her Friday at Pocono Raceway.
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The video shows Patrick walking back to the garage from pit road after having just completed qualifying when a man seemingly tried to get the Stewart-Haas Racing driver to autograph something. Security prevented the man from reaching Patrick, who acknowledged him but continued walking away unimpeded. This caused some fans on the other side of the walkway to begin booing Patrick, who then turned and walked over to the group of fans and confronted them.
“Since I’m old, instead of taking the booing, I want to tell you, I’m doing the very best I can,” Patrick said. “If you’re a real fan, you know that I’m not just like … my job is not to sign autographs, right? My job is to drive a car and to tell the crew chief what’s going on. I don’t appreciate the booing. It hurts my feelings.
“I’m a (expletive) person, you know what I mean? I’m a person, too. I have feelings. When you boo me, it hurts my feelings. Please just be supportive fans. I’ll do everything I can. When I came from over here, my car was over there. I can only do so much. I have to get in the car. So please understand that. I have feelings, too.”
Patrick starts 24th in Sunday’s Pocono 400. She is coming off a 10th-place finish last week at Dover International Speedway, her first top 10 since a ninth at Bristol Motor Speedway in April 2015.
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