Does Danica Patrick really understand what NASCAR racing is all about?
(Photo: Danica Patrick Go Daddy) Now that there is a deal – of some sort – can Danica Patrick deliver? The number of cross-over Indy-to-NASCAR drivers who have been successful is quite small – like Tony Stewart, Robby Gordon, Juan Pablo Montoya, and John Andretti. Last week she announced a new two-year Indy Racing League deal with car owner Michael Andretti, and she says she’ll be focusing on that tour’s 16-race season, which opens in March and ends in early October. She says she’ll sandwich her stock car racing around that. She finished third in this May’s Indianapolis 500, and she finished fifth in the IRL standings. Patrick, who says she ran in NASCAR Busch cars at Greenville-Pickens seven or eight years ago briefly, is an unknown on NASCAR’s Sprint Cup tracks. So her first big race will apparently be Daytona’s ARCA 200 Saturday Feb. 6th. That’s the day before the NFL Super Bowl – in which she is expected to have a few spicy commercials, undoubtedly partly tied to her new NASCAR ven
