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Patrick arrives in Daytona for 1st stop of ‘Danica Double’

Domingo 11 de Febrero del 2018

Patrick arrives in Daytona for 1st stop of ‘Danica Double’

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Danica Patrick watched drivers turn laps out of the corner of her eye. In her whirlwind preparation for the "Danica Double," getting a car ready for the first event of the NASCAR season had not been a priority. But with practice running for Sunday's exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway - an event Patrick would have been eligible to enter if she had a car - the highest-finishing woman in Daytona 500 history could only follow along on a TV monitor. "It all came t

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Danica Patrick watched drivers turn laps out of the corner of her eye. In her whirlwind preparation for the "Danica Double," getting a car ready for the first event of the NASCAR season had not been a priority. But with practice running for Sunday's exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway - an event Patrick would have been eligible to enter if she had a car - the highest-finishing woman in Daytona 500 history could only follow along on a TV monitor. "It all came t

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Danica Patrick watched drivers turn laps out of the corner of her eye. In her whirlwind preparation for the “Danica Double,” getting a car ready for the first event of the NASCAR season had not been a priority.

But with practice running for Sunday’s exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway — an event Patrick would have been eligible to enter if she had a car — the highest-finishing woman in Daytona 500 history could only follow along on a TV monitor.

“It all came together too late,” she said Saturday. “A couple of days ago I was thinking to myself that we should have run the backup car in the (exhibition). ... I was like, ‘Man, where was I on that one?’ I didn’t think of it soon enough. It would have been good practice.”

Patrick is retiring after she races in both NASCAR’s Feb. 18 season-opening Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 in May.