Danica Patrick: How Driving Stock Cars Could Help Her in the Indy 500

The tough and expedited schooling Danica Patrick has undergone in NASCAR may easily give her the advantage she needs for the Indy 500. NASCAR may be the new pinnacle of motorsports, with drivers coming over from Formula One, open-wheel and other series. For Patrick, there is one goal she wants to achieve before plotting her future racing course, and that is to win the Indianapolis 500. The sporadic appearances the GoDaddy.com driver makes in the NASCAR Nationwide Series have shown steady improvement. Her last appearance was at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 19, and her next race will be June 4 at Chicagoland Speedway. Patrick has been forced to learn how to control a heavy stock car in close packs of cars. She needed to learn a new li...

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