Throwback Thursday: Danica Patrick, Before She Was Famous, Did A Very Racy Photo Shoot For ‘FHM’

For some reason this week, Sports Illustrated decided to release a video of NASCAR star Danica Patrick from one of her photo shoots with them back in either 2008 or 2009. So since it is Throwback Thursday and all I saw a golden opportunity to get a little nostalgic. Here’s the video they shared…

I still say that, along with this year’s pics of Caroline Wozniacki and Genie Bouchard, Danica Patrick’s SI Swimsuit shoots were the best ever done by an athlete. I mean, there were some really terrific pics that came out of her two photo shoots.

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Then, as I was watching that video I got to thinking about Patrick’s career and I remembered that way back in 2003, before anyone had ever heard of her, she did a very racy photo shoot for FHM in which they introduced her to the world as arguably the sexiest race car driver on the planet. So, naturally, I went a-lookin’ for some of those pics. Here’s what I found…

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Hard to believe that was 14 years ago already. (And she still has only one freaking win combined in IndyCar and NASCAR. No booing though, please.)

Oh well, at least she has her yoga