Danica Patrick has meltdown?
Gilbert Sam, Jr.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Danica Patrick finds her �comfort zone� back in an IndyCar: Danica
Patrick didn�t need an entourage on Tuesday to manage a crush of
onlookers. At Barber Motorsports Park, IndyCar�s most popular driver
didn�t need much in the way of security or PR assistants. There was no
sea of media people to part like she faced at Daytona as the newest
star of NASCAR. At Barber, where the IZOD IndyCar series is holding
its only preseason test session starting today, she could just pull up
a chair and have a chat with a handful of reporters. It illustrates
the two very different worlds she now travels between. �I didn�t
expect it to be quite so intense of a focus and following,� Patrick
said of the crush of media that followed her in her NASCAR debut, �but
that�s part of what makes NASCAR exciting is that it is a big
platform.� The relatively intimate setting at Barber on Tuesday, she
said, is just a sign that �we have a long way to go to make this sport
more popular.�� �It�s definitely my comfort zone right now being in an
Indy Car,� she said. �I know the technical side of the car and all the
different changes that we can make to make it better.� In a stock car,
she said, �I didn�t understand what it meant to drop the rear track
bar,� referring to how a car is made tighter or looser. �I didn�t know
what that means,� she said. �I do now. Those are things that didn�t
make any sense to me.� (Birmingham News)
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Earnhardt Jr. on Vegas: �Just give me a good car and I can run real
good.�: Lance McGrew replaced Tony Eury, and team owner Rick Hendrick
made improving Dale Earnhardt�s car a priority coming into this
season. �We built a lot of new cars. We did a lot of hard work, Lance
especially, during the offseason to put us in a position to bring
better cars to this race and to Vegas,� Earnhardt said. �Just give me
a good car and I can run real good.� He proved that at Daytona, a
performance that he hopes to repeat or improve on in Sunday�s Shelby
American at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he was runner-up in 2003
and 2008. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Danica Patrick has meltdown? NASCAR newcomer Danica Patrick collapsed
in tears after being made the target of racing�s Good Ole Boy network.
Veteran stock car drivers are convinced she�ll never cut it in the no-
holds-barred sport - and insiders bare all the details of Danica�s
surprising meltdown. (Globe Magazine)
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