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In a long article about the Indiana Democratic Primary, there's a picture of Hillary Clinton getting the endorsement of IRL racer and team-owner Sarah Fisher, with the caption "Hillary Rodham Clinton paid an election-day visit to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday to appear with race car driver Sarah Fisher, a top woman on the Indy car circuit, who endorsed her this week." This is true in the same way that Hillary Clinton is the top performer in the Democratic race for the White House in that "top" here means "supreme but for those other people with superior records." Technicalities.
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Although she was consistently a fan favorite in the IRL and holds the highest podium finish for any woman in the series, 24 year-old Sarah Fisher had trouble attracting the top-flight teams and big-bucks sponsors necessary to be consistently competitive. Just as Danica Patrick has become the story of the year in open-wheel racing, Fisher's taken her show to NASCAR. But not to the top-flight NEXTEL Cup Series, or even the Busch Series; rather, Fisher's running the Grand National West Series; short-track races in less-sophisticated cars.
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Jalopnik
Sarah Fisher is down and out — and yup, it was in the first turn. Who knew? Oh wait...we did. We're totally winning fifty bucks or whatever.
