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Danica was gridded 26th
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Speedway 
and finished 11th. Next race Infineon
Raceway
About
Danica
Danica in the News: 2008,
2007,
2006,
2005
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2007,
2006
Danica
Patrick's autobiography
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Features in
FHM
(4/03)
,
Hot
Rod
magazine and the newspaper supplement version of
Life
magazine (8/19/05), a revisit to
FHM
(9/05), and covers on ESPN
(10/10/05), TV Guide
(7/31/05), and SI
(6/6/05). The Wall Street Journal where Jeff
Gordon and Danica were mentioned in a story about
reaction times. Secret
Deodorant
Danica's Photo
Gallery 1
2
3
4
,
Wrigley
and MIS Photo
Gallery
Patrick appears in
Jay-Z video
Peak
TV Commercial
TV Guide
Tunes in with
Patrick
Great
Buddy Rice, Dan Wheldon,Vitora Meria
Photo
Patrick
honored among top 100
women
Dear
Diary (Updated
9/20/06.)
Our
Favorite
Quotes
Danica Sue Patrick
Sport: IndyCar Driver
Birthday: March 25, 1982
Residence: Phoenix, Arizona
Height: 5-2
Weight: 100 lbs
Parents: TJ and Bev Patrick,,
Sister: Brooke
Birthplace: Beloit, WI
Residence: Phoenix, AZ
Career Hightlights:
IRL's rookie of the year (2005)
Fourth-place finish at the Indianapolis 500
(2005)
12th in points standings
Danica Patrick epitomizes the life of fast cars
and hot women. In 2005, she was the first woman to
lead the Indy 500 and finished fourth after dueling
winner Dan Wheldon in the final laps. Her rise to
prominence helped increase IndyCar ratings by 40
percent in the past year.
Patrick is the jewel of the racetrack and was
honored with several female athlete of the year
recognitions. She is constantly being sought out by
the media -- appearing on late shows (Letterman is
part-owner of her racing team) and making
"SportsCenter" ads, for example -- and she also has
posed for FHM and the cover of ESPN The Magazine's
Hot & Cool issue. The black-haired bombshell
keeps her toned figure by doing extreme yoga
sessions in a 100-degree room.
With all the attention, she proves that she
definitely can take on the heat -- on and off the
racecourse.
Source: sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/features/hottestWomen?num=8
Danica Patrick drove for Rahal-Letterman
Racing 2005-2006 where she is shattering records,
becoming the first women in history to win a pole
position in the Toyota Atlantic Championship.
At the age of ten, Danica exploded onto the
karting scene, placing second in points against 20
other drivers. In her second year she began to
climb, racing in the WKA Midwest Sprint Series in
Yamaha Sportsman and US 820 Sportsman, placing
second and breaking two track records in a single
day.
By Danica’s third year, she had seized her
first national points championship in WKA
Manufacturer’s Cup in the Yamaha Sportsman
class. By the age of thirteen, she had won the WKA
Great Lakes Sprint Series title in the Yamaha
Restricted Junior and US 820 Junior classes.
Danica solidified her reputation the following
year in the Yamaha Jr. and Yamaha Restricted Jr.
classes winning a knock-out 39 of 49 feature races.
In her last year of karting she won the Grand
National championship in the Yamaha Lite and HPV
Lite classes.
By the age of sixteen Danica was racing in the
Formula Vauxhall Winter Series in England, placing
in the top ten of the 14 races.
2000 was a record year for 18 year old Danica
when she finished second in the England Formula
Ford Festival, the highest finishing American
driver since 1998, stunning the critical British
racing community. This success brought her to the
attention of three-time Champ Cat titleholder and
1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal, who believes that
Danica is the next female sports star in North
America.
Danica became a household name when she entered
the Toyota Atlantic Series and became the first
full-time female driver in the history of the
series.
2003 has been a key year for this young and
talented driver as she shows that she’s got
what it takes to win. With a choice of the Indy or
Champ Car series next year, this could be the time
that she climbs into the racing limelight.
Favorite Quotes
"I don't feel insecure about
BEING GIRLIE,"
says Patrick. "I do as much media as I can because
I want this IRL series to be so kick-butt that
NASCAR goes, 'Huh?'"
"I'm just another driver out there trying to
kick butt. The car doesn't know or care that I'm a
chick."
Patrick would relish a proper
F1 test opportunity
Every driver would love to drive a Formula One car
at some point in their life, so yeah.
Danica Patrick, who made history when she
claimed her first IndyCar race win two weeks ago,
has confessed to wanting a Formula One test.
Patrick made her IndyCar debut in 2005, however,
it was not until three years later, driving for
Andretti Green Racing, that she claimed her first
victory, winning the Indy Japan 300 and thereby
becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar
race.
The American is now hoping to test her skills in
Formula One, admitting that she would relish a
'proper' test with one of the teams.
"Every driver would love to drive a Formula One
car at some point in their life, so yeah," she told
Autosport.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with a
real, proper test.
"I was asked to do a demonstration lap at Indy
in 2005, and I said, 'No way. You're making me a
show. That's embarrassing.' But I would say that a
real test is absolutely something I would do."
And one team who would welcome her testing with
them is Honda. "We haven't instigated anything, but
if Danica wanted to be a test driver then we'd be
more than happy to talk about it," Honda CEO Nick
Fry said.
Patrick appears in Jay-Z
video
Was that Danica Patrick driving a sports car at
breakneck speed on the treacherous roads above
Monaco?
The IndyCar Series driver makes an appearance in
a video for the new Jay-Z single "Show Me What You
Got." The opening scene of the four-minute James
Bond-inspired video shows Patrick racing against
Jay-Z. The video, directed by F. Gary Gray,
premiered Oct. 16 on MTV and is also featured in a
new ad campaign for Budweiser Select.
"Show Me What You Got" marks Jay-Z's first
single from "Kingdom Come," his comeback CD
scheduled to be available Nov. 23.
"Getting a chance to appear in the new Jay-Z
video was a pretty cool opportunity," Patrick said.
"I have been a big Jay-Z fan for a long time and to
be part of his comeback video is a thrill."
Source: www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=236381&FS=IRL
World's Most Beautiful
People 2006
World's Most Beautiful People From Angelina Jolie
to Eva Longoria, see what makes the most
captivating stars so utterly gorgeous in People's
special issue, on newsstands April 28. Danica
Patrick, the 2005 5'2" IndyCar Rookie of the Year,
24, led the Indianapolis 500 for 19 laps – a
first for a female driver. And there's buzz about
an even better showing at Indy this month. Still,
racing can get bumpy. "You sweat so much," Patrick
says. "We have a helmet and this head sock; the
sun's on you. The skin takes a beating. I do
MicroDermabrasion every month. And facials –
they hurt so good."
IndyCar Series driver Danica
Patrick is in the GQ spotlight for November
In an 18-page feature “The Originals: 16
of the coolest sports heroes of all time,” the
magazine looks at the 2005 Bombardier Rookie of the
Year’s flair on and off the racetrack. The
Patrick package, including a full-page photo,
highlights her drive toward perfection that
“makes her one of the most unbridled –
and entertaining – competitors out
there.”
Other featured athletes include Willie Mays, Joe
Namath, Kevin Garnett, Michael Vick, and Kelly
Slater. The magazine is available on
newsstands.
Source: www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=7726
TV Guide tunes
in with Patrick
Danica Patrick is coming to a checkout line near
you. Her rise to prominence this season in the
IndyCar Series are detailed in the July 31-August 6
issue, just in time for ABC's broadcast of the Indy
400 at 3pm, July 31 from Michigan International
Speedway. Patrick also has been featured on the
cover of the June 6 issue of Sports
Illustrated, becoming the first Indianapolis
500 driver to be a cover photo subject since A.J.
Foyt in the pre-race story in the May 25, 1981
issue. She was photographed last weekend for an
upcoming issue of Life magazine.
Source: www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=5139
Patrick
honored among top 100 women
Automotive News’ 100 Leading Women in the
North American Auto Industry 2005 honorees include
seven CEOs, three COOs, 13 presidents, 52 vice
presidents, four assembly plant managers and one
race car driver. One guess allowed for that
person’s identity. 
* * *
Never underestimate the
power of stupid people in large groups.
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