who graces the cover of the shape magazine?
“It’s my first real girl cover!” Danica Patrick excitedly told a reporter from the Versus cable channel about her cover photo on the June, 2009 Shape magazine, before the start of today’s Road Runner Turbo Indy 300 race at Kansas Speedway, a high-speed 1 ½-mile oval track. Patrick started the race in third position and finished fifth. Patrick secured her place in history by being the first woman ever to win a major open-wheel racing series event, the Honda 300, held April, 2008, at Twin Ring Motegi, Japan. She’s appeared in what seems like innumerable ads and on TV shows, magazine covers and websites, but like most race car drivers used in advertising, she’s almost always wearing her head-to-toe and very baggy Nomex fire-proof driving suit. On the Shape cover, she’s traded fire safety for heat-generation, in a tight and taut gold bikini. The advertising theory is that racers are recognized much more quickly by their fans if they’re shown in those suits, which many agree aren’t exactly
