Danica to make Sprint debut at Daytona
FORT WORTH, Texas — The decision for Danica Patrick to make her Sprint Cup debut at next year's Daytona 500 was announced Friday — but it was all but decided in July.
That's when Patrick showed her mettle at the Subway Jalapeno 250 aty Daytona, racing with her future team owner Tony Stewart on a day in which she finished 10th at NASCAR's most storied track.
"I got a chance to run with her at July in Daytona at the Nationwide race," Stewart said. "She did a great job, and I think that was part of the reason we felt more comfortable taking her down there. Obviously it's our biggest race of the year. She's ready for that."
She better be, because that's where Patrick and the No. 10 Godaddy.com Chevrolet start her Sprint Cup career on Feb. 26. Patrick and Stewart unveiled her 2012 Sprint Cup schedule and her new car Friday at Texas Motor Speedway.
Patrick plans to run 10 races next season, eight of which were revealed Friday. Following Daytona, Patrick plans to race at Darlington in May before taking some time off from the Sprint Cup schedule.
Patrick, who also is racing full-time in the Nationwide Series next year for JR Motorsports, plans to pick up her Cup schedule again in August at Bristol and follow that with races at Atlanta, Chicagoland, Dover, Texas and Phoenix.
Stewart said the final two races on Patrick's Sprint Cup schedule would be determined later. The eight races selected were done to help Patrick better prepare for a full-time run in the series in 2013, and were picked because of how challenging each track was.
Patrick said she is ready for that challenge.
"The expectation levels sometimes are not as high," she said.
"You have the ability to make mistakes. That's the plan. There are going to be mistakes. There are going to be learning curves. It's big to get that out of the way before we try to do this full-time and really try and put it together.
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