What was Robby Gordon thinking?

Apparently not much. Robby Gordon tries to backtrack after saying that Danica Patrick had an unfair advantage because she only weighs 100 pounds. Less weight, faster car.

Idiot.

While this is true, he made a couple of mistakes. First, never comment on a woman’s weight. Second, the weight difference didn’t keep Dan Wheldon from winning the race did it?

Think before you speak boys.

And maybe you should drop a couple of pounds before the next race.

In addition, I found this great commentary about Gordon’s Whine of the Week:

Such a person is race NASCAR driver Robby Gordon, who decided that Danica Patrick, the first woman ever to lead an Indy 500 and the eventual fourth-place finisher Sunday, has an unfair advantage over the men in the field: At 100 pounds, she’s too light.

“The lighter the car, the faster it goes,” Gordon said. “Do the math. Put her in the car at her weight, then put me or Tony Stewart in the car at 200 pounds and our car is at least 100 pounds heavier.

“I won’t race against her until the IRL does something to take that advantage away.”

Funny, but Gordon never complained about male drivers who are 40 or 50 pounds lighter than he is. And we don’t remember him complaining about previous female drivers who entered the race but didn’t have the equipment or perhaps the talent to win.

But along comes a woman who can flat-out drive with a team that’s won the race before and a great car, and suddenly Gordon has a problem.

We’ll leave it to our readers, some of whom wrote as soon as they read Gordon’s comments, to put him in his place — which, some think, is in a Weight Watchers meeting.

Casey in Dallas wrote: This is undoubtedly one of the most puerile comments from a sports figure that I've ever read. It's like a football team saying "it's not fair" that the opposing team's front line weighs more than theirs, or a basketball player whining that someone is taller than he. Is it an advantage? Probably. An unfair advantage? No way.

And, from Josh: As far as “Flesh Gordon” and his childish whimpering — if he lost his pot belly and the meat between his ears, he, too, would be faster on the track and on all the intelligence tests he surely must have flunked....

Thanks, Josh and Casey. All we can add is that we expect Gordon to issue a statement saying the reason Patrick lost is because she had to stop six times during the race to ask for directions.