5. Danica Patrick
The notion of one of the most beautiful females in NASCAR gracing the pages of Playboy seems like a marriage made in heaven, but for some reason it never came to pass. Maybe NASCAR has some rule against its drivers appearing nude, a policy we would have supported 100 percent (even suggested it be made a federal law) before Danica Patrick appeared on the scene.
Maybe GoDaddy, the web hosting company who signed her to be their spokesperson, put in a contract clause where she couldn’t go full monty while working for them. After appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2005, Playboy did ask her to pose, but she declined. This was when the world still wondered if she’d be a world class race car driver.
She’s good, but she’s never been great, having only won one minor race in Japan and has never seen anything higher than fifth place in the IndyCar Series. Knowing what we know about her career trajectory now, we wonder if she’d give Playboy more consideration if they had come calling a decade later.
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