Danica Patrick’s 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Rookie Season: Is It Still Salvageable?

On the surface, you might say Danica Patrick's season to date has been mediocre bordering on miserable. In her first full-time season on the Sprint Cup Series, Patrick is currently ranked 27th in the standings, has led just five of 8,412 laps in the races she's been a part of, has just seven lead-lap finishes, and, perhaps most telling, has just one top-10 finish in the first 19 races. That one top-10 finish being, of course, her eighth-place showing in the season-opening Daytona 500, where she also won the pole (and the only one thus far in 2013). As we march forward into the second half of the season, it's going to be difficult for Patrick to appreciably move up in the standings. Where some fans thought she might be able to finish the sea...

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