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In her first full season in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series, Danica Patrick has unquestionably been snake bitten at times with a variety of bad luck and misfortune.
She’s left a race early five times due to crashes and another time due to engine failure. That’s one-fourth of her 24 starts thus far this season.
She’s finished all laps in a race just 11 times – although, to be fair  … More
Much to the delight of this fan, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has won nine NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Most Popular Driver Awards in a row. This year he is the odds-on favorite to win the award again, but there is another driver who is coming up to the Sprint Cup Series in 2013 who might actually challenge Dale Jr. for the title. This driver is none other than Danica Patrick. Does she have what it takes to be crowned the next big thing in NASCAR popularity?
The Case for Patrick
Danica Patrick has had limited success at the NASCAR level to say the least. In her highly anticipated first full season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series she has been  … More
Who throws a shoe? Apparently, someone at Montreal.
While Danica Patrick was leading Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a spectator threw a shoe onto the track, and the shoe landed in the racing groove. As Patrick led the field back to the spot where the shoe was, she ran it over squarely and its remains shot out from underneath her car.
It looked innocuous enough — it’s just a sneaker, right? Well  … More