Here's a great article from Jalopnic.com titled "Why Danica Patrick Can't Win At Racing".
http://jalopnik.com/5627886/why-dani...-win-at-racing
"She has not even bothered to learn the most basic facts about the design of the cars, and only learned at the last race about the "truck bars," a standard feature of a stocker and one way of altering the handling. Drivers do not have to be mechanics, but they need to know what can be altered and what effect it will have. Every driver I ever worked with understood the basics of set ups, some far more than others."