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| Your newest Sprint Cup racer |
Well, that didn't take long. Shortly after the end of this years troubled Indy Car season, the circuits most popular...or at least best known driver has all but made her jump to NASCAR permanent.
Stewart-Haas racing announced today that Danica Patrick will pilot their #10 car in the Super Bowl of Auto Racing in February...the Daytona 500. She will compete in at least 8 more Sprint Cup races along with a full 33 race season on the Nationwide circuit.
Read the entire story from NASCAR.com RIGHT HERE
This isn't much of a surprise. Everyone knew it would just be a matter of time before Patrick made the full jump to Stock-Car racing. She had a somewhat difficult season this past year racing for Andretti Motorsports Indy Car team and expressed a lot of anxiety over the recent fatal crash involving Dan Wheldon.
We don't know if...or how successful Patrick will be running with the bigger cars. She had a modest amount of success in early 2011 running a few Nationwide events. She didn't win any, but showed according to observers, the ability to handle it.
Undoubtedly, this will be a big, big story leading into next years NASCAR season and considering the egos involved, it should be really, really interesting to watch and see how it plays out.
Here's some video of your newest Sprint Cup contender:
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