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Danica Patrick took sixth place in her first stock-car race Saturday in ARCA competition at Daytona.
| Danica Patrick sixth in stock-car debut; ARCA veteran Gerhart wins
By Steven Cole Smith | 02/06/10, 9:46 pm et
It's unfortunate the sixth win for 51-year-old ARCA veteran Bobby Gerhart at Daytona International Speedway will be mostly an afterthought, with the central question surrounding Saturday's Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 being, “So, how did Danica do?”
Pretty well, all things considered. The Indy Racing League driver, making her stock-car racing debut ahead of a 12 or 13-race schedule in NASCAR's Nationwide series, finished a solid sixth after being shuffled back as far as 24th in the caution-plagued 80-lap race. Patrick was running well up in the pack when, on lap 48, she was shuffled up the track in turn two--possibly, Patrick said, by a bump from a car behind her--and she lost the lead-pack draft.
As she was working her way back up, she tried to pass former Formula One... |
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