Danica Patrick thinks she has the talent to drive in NASCAR full time and wants to do it the Nationwide series. She may also try some Sprint races as well.
From ESPN: Danica Patrick and her management team are working on a plan that would bring her full-time to NASCAR in 2012, sources said Tuesday.
Patrick hopes to finalize a deal soon that would have her race full-time in the NASCAR Nationwide Series next season. She would also race a few Sprint Cup events in 2012 before going full-time to Cup in 2013.
The plan includes Patrick continuing to compete in the Indianapolis 500 next year. Patrick is the only woman ever to lead a lap in the Indy 500. She will compete in her seventh Indy 500 on Sunday.
Which team she will race for, and other details, still are being finalized, sources said.
Go-Daddy.com, which sponsors her Indy car and the car she drives in the Nationwide Series, is expected to stay with her if she moves to NASCAR full-time. Go-Daddy also sponsors the No. 5 Cup car that Mark Martin drives for Hendrick Motorsports, but Kasey Kahne is replacing Martin next season.
Patrick, 29, has raced full-time in the IndyCar Series since 2005. She became the first woman to win a major open-wheel racing event when she went to Victory Lane in Motegi, Japan, in 2008.
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/news/story?id=6584012
I may be wrong, but I don't think NASCAR needs another whiney driver with little NASCAR talent.
Patrick has not come close to winning a Nationwide race yet and the only times she has had a top ten finish is because of fuel strategy, not driving talent.
She never takes the blame for anything that goes wrong, which is often and she rally doesn't have the talent. She runs for an excellent team with very good cars and she can barely finish in the top half of the field.
She is a pretty good Indy car driver, but those cars are lighter and handle much easier.
If Danica Patrick didn't look good and perform in sexy commercials for Go Daddy, she wouldn't even be considered for a NASCAR job.
Danica Patrick will be to NASCAR as Michelle Wie was to the PGA tour. Young, pretty and no good.
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