Patrick finishes sixth in stock car debut
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By Kyle Ocker
Sprint Cup Series beat reporter
Her well anticipated stock car debut finally happened on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway; however it didn’t necessarily go without a hitch. Danica Patrick’s first race in a stock car went quite smoothly throughout the first half of the race, mostly because of the lack of green flag racing. However, it began to heat up halfway through the 80-lap event when Patrick took her first spin through the grass, causing only minimal damage.
From there, she was a girl on a mission, crawling her way from last to her final finishing position of sixth place making her the best finishing female since Shawna Robinson in 1999 at Daytona.
Patrick led no laps during the event, which was won by Bobby Gerhart, but was as high as fifth during the Lucas Oil 200.
The next decision on Patrick’s plate is whether or not to move her NASCAR debut up one weekend and start at Daytona next week. Currently, her scheduled debut is slated for Auto Club Speedway in two weeks. However, whether or not she runs in next week’s Nationwide Series race at Daytona was to be based on tonight’s Arca Series race.
Patrick ran the race in a No. 7 GoDaddy.com sponsored JR Motorsports Chevrolet in tonight’s race.
