Up and down day leads to a sixth place finish for Danica
February 7th 2010 18:10
Danica Patrick who made her first ever start in a stock car at the ARCA 200 in Daytona on Saturday had an up and down day but she finished sixth with a late charge.
"That was fun -- that was a good time," Patrick radioed to crew chief Tony Eury Jr. "I definitely learned a lot. But I felt what it was like to have the tires go off. That was a handful."
Patrick over shadowed Bobby Gerhart’s sixth win in the race but today was all about Patrick.
She didn’t look that great earlier not really doing anything to make you think she could make it in NASCAR. She spun out on Lap 54 after contact with another car which dropped here to 24th with only 26 laps left but she turned it on in the last 17 laps and breezed back into contention getting as high as fifth before falling to sixth.
"You drove the wheels off that thing, girl," radioed co-owner Rick Hendrick. "We're proud of you."
Patrick replied, "Thank you very much."
"I was pretty excited to go from last back to the top five again," she said. "It was really fun. I was going side-by-side with people. The GoDaddy car doesn't look very pretty, but it was fun."
"I bumped from the side. I bumped from the front. I got bumped from the back. I learned a lot, and I had so much fun in a race car [Saturday]. So I can't wait to do it again," Patrick said.
Patrick will announce on Monday whether she will race in the Nationwide race in Daytona on Saturday or wait till California.
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