Danica Patrick will carry 35 pounds of ballast in her car in this weekend's Indianapolis 500 to make up for her tiny, 100-pound body. But even those who agree that ballasting is the fair way to account for differences in racers' body sizes aren't sure the IndyCar system is entirely fair, the Indianapolis Star reports.
"All we did was reduce the percentage between the lightest and the heaviest to a point we're comfortable with," says the president of the IRL, who won't specify the weight classes used to calculate required ballast. But fair or not, Patrick isn't worried about lugging around some lead: "It's not going to be an issue." (More Indy 500 stories.)