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With a handshake as firm as a wrench, Danica Patrick greets a guest, then quickly takes a seat on the couch in her 18th-floor hotel suite.
The windows look south upon the ocean meeting a sun-splashed beach, but Patrick doesn’t give a glance. Now that she has reached the pinnacle of her sport in popularity, she’s often too busy to enjoy the view.
Patrick’s always going 200 mph, and it’s by choice. This year she added 13 Nationwide dates to her IndyCar schedule, and … Details
As one motorsports executive said in a casual conversation, if Travis Pastrana wants an example of how not to break into NASCAR, the X Games star should take the opposite approach to Danica Patrick.
Let me explain.
Patrick, minus a few ARCA races, made the leap from the IndyCar Series to NASCAR by jumping right into the Nationwide Series. She didn’t get the benefits of working her way up through the late models or the K&N Pro East Series, or even enough ARCA races …Â Details
Travis Pastrana has signed a deal with Michael Waltrip Racing that could put him in NASCAR’s second-tier Nationwide series as early as next year.
The action sports star has formed a team called Pastrana-Waltrip Racing, with Waltrip and Gary and Blake Bechtel. Pending NASCAR approval, he will run seven Nationwide races next season and 20 in 2012.
“I’ve been following NASCAR closely for years as a fan of the sport with competing in the sport a lifelong dream,†Pastrana said in a statement released Thursday.
“I decided it was … Details