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WILL DANICA PATRICK BE
CROWNED THE FIRST QUEEN OF INDY 500?
Source: Yahoo News
May 25, 2006 |
Sportsbook.com posts odds on 'The Greatest Spectacle
in Racing'
INDIANAPOLIS, IN, May 24 /PRNewswire/ - According to
odds makers at sportsbook.com, two-time Indy winner
Helio Castroneves will be chugging milk in victory
lane at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this Sunday.
Castroneves posts 7-2 odds to win the legendary
race, but Danica Patrick (10-1) - the 2005 Indy
fourth place finisher - could easily drive her way
into the history books as the first woman to win in
Indianapolis.
Castroneves' team-mate and 2006 Indy 500 pole-sitter
Sam Hornish Jr., along with Dan Wheldon, the
defending Indy 500 champion, are both listed at 4-
1. Tony Kanaan, listed at 7-1, rounds out the top
five favorites.
"Everybody bets on auto racing, especially the Indy
500," said Alex Czajkowski, Sportsbook.com. "This
year's race looks like it's going to pack a lot of
punch with Team Penske and Chip Ganassi Racing going
head to head. And don't rule out Danica Patrick -
she brings a lot of attention to the race and is a
solid contender."
Odds to win the Indianapolis 500:
Helio Castroneves 7-2
Sam Hornish Jr. 4-1
Dan Wheldon 4-1
Tony Kaanan 7-1
Danica Patrick 10-1
Michael Andretti 12-1
Scott Dixon 12-1
Dario Franchitti 12-1
Bryan Herta 18-1
Kosuke Matsuura 20-1
Vitor Meira 20-1
Buddy Rice 20-1
Tomas Scheckter 20-1
Scott Sharp 25-1
Al Unser Jr 35-1
Marco Andretti 40-1
Buddy Lazier 60-1
Jeff Simmons 60-1
Ed Carpenter 100-1
Field (all other drivers) 12-1
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DANICA PATRICK STILL
SEEKING INDY SPEED
Source: Yahoo News
May 12, 2006 |
NDIANAPOLIS - On the eve of pole qualifying a year
ago at Indy, surprising rookie Danica Patrick was
the fastest driver at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway.
Through the first week of practice, the sensational
youngster, then 23, was a pacesetter. Only a bobble
in one turn of one of her four laps of qualifying on
the historic 2.5-mile oval kept Patrick from winning
the pole for the 89th Indy 500. But even qualifying
fourth — the best by a woman at Indy — was enough to
create a sensation.
Then, with "Danicamania" in full bloom, the
diminutive Patrick became the first woman to lead
the big race, winning top rookie honors with her
fourth-place finish, the best by a woman.
She's still a sensation with the fans, drawing
crowds wherever she goes. But Patrick hasn't been
able to keep up the pace on the track. So far, she
is 13th fastest for the week, with a fast lap of
223.084 mph.
"I look back and think, `That was nice and easy
(last year).' But that's not always the case,"
Patrick said Friday, 24 hours before the scheduled
start of qualifying for the May 28 race.
This week, with rain shortening or canceling every
session since practice began on Tuesday, Patrick and
the rest of her Rahal Letterman Racing team have
struggled to keep up with the other top teams.
"We're struggling for sure," Patrick said. "We're
doing the best we can. We just can't seem to get the
car to grip up. We can't really trim (the car) out
and go fast right now and we're trying to work
around it."
The big difference for the Rahal team is the fact
that all the entries at Indy are powered by Honda
engines this year. Last year, with some of the other
top teams using Toyota and Chevrolet engines, the
Honda teams, including Rahal, had a definite
horsepower advantage.
"That's another thing that's not working to our
advantage now that we are among all Hondas," Patrick
said. "Some of the other teams learned how to go
fast last year without all the horsepower and now
everybody has it and they're out front."
With their problems, track time is key for Patrick
and teammates Buddy Rice, the 2004 Indy winner, and
newcomer Jeff Simmons, but they and the rest of the
Indy entries have been mostly stymied by the wet
conditions.
Rice, who missed last year's race after being
injured in a crash during the first week of
practice, bruised his knees in another crash
Thursday. He was cleared to drive Friday by track
doctors, but his backup car remained in the garage
as the rain fell.
"The weather has been tough on our team," Rice said.
"But there's still the possibility of making
everything come together. It's just going to take a
little bit of work right now."
But the question remains: When are they going to do
that work?
The final full day of practice before the opening of
qualifying, known as "Fast Friday," turned out to be
"Frustrating Friday" as the entire day's action was
washed away by a steady cold rain.
And the forecast for the weekend isn't optimistic,
either, with a 70 percent chance of rain and
temperatures hovering around 50 both Saturday and
Sunday.
The current format at Indy calls for four days of
time trials — this weekend and next weekend — with
11 of the 33 starters qualifying each of the first
three days and the final day reserved for faster
drivers to bump out the slowest qualifiers.
Last year was the first year for the 11 qualifiers
per day and Saturday was rained out, eliminating
much of the drama as 22 drivers were able to qualify
on Sunday.
When qualifying does take place, the list of
favorites for the pole certainly will begin with
two-time IRL IndyCar Series champion Sam Hornish
Jr., the fastest driver here since practice began.
Hornish shrugged off gusty winds Thursday to post a
speed of 226.789 mph — the fastest of the week. That
came during a four-lap simulated qualifying run.
Among the other fast drivers this week have been
Hornish's Marlboro Team Penske teammate Helio
Castroneves, a two-time Indy winner; Target Chip
Ganassi drivers Dan Wheldon, the defending Indy
champ, and Scott Dixon, and Andretti Green Racing
entries Tony Kanaan, Dario Franchitti, Bryan Herta,
rookie Marco Andretti and his father and team
co-owner, Michael Andretti, making a comeback after
being out of the cockpit since 2003. |
PATRICK DEFENDS DECISION
NOT TO RACE
Source: Newsday
March 29, 2006 |
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Danica Patrick said Tuesday the
Rahal Letterman Racing team made the right decision
in keeping both her and teammate Buddy Rice out of
Sunday's season-opening race at Homestead-Miami
Speedway after the death of rookie Paul Dana.
"I don't think you can ever question the decision
that your boss makes," she said during a break in
testing on Homestead's road course.
Referring to team co-owner Bobby Rahal, she added,
"If he would have said 'race' or 'don't race,'
that's what I would have done. I race for him. I
think he did a very, very good thing. This is life.
We drive race cars, and it's what we love, and it's
our job, but we don't walk out there a couple
minutes afterward and say, 'I've forgotten already.'
"I don't think that anybody can critique the fact
that he said `don't race.' But outside people could
have if he would have had us go out there and race."
Patrick and Rice both plan to race on Sunday at St.
Petersburg in the second IRL IndyCar Series race of
the season.
Dana, a 32-year-old rookie, joined the team this
season and was scheduled to make his first start of
Rahal Letterman last Sunday. Instead, he was
pronounced dead two hours after crashing into the
nearly stopped car of Ed Carpenter, who had hit the
wall several seconds earlier.
Carpenter spent a night in the hospital, but was
released Monday, suffering from a bruised lung.
Patrick, last year's rookie phenom who led and
finished fourth in the Indianapolis 500, said she
didn't know Dana very well.
"I tend to keep a little bit to myself," she said.
"I don't talk to very many people. I pretty much go
from my motorcoach to my truck and to the track. I
really didn't get to know him very well.
"I told him to move over a couple of times when he
was sitting in my seat right next to my engineer,"
she said, smiling. "But he was a very nice guy. And,
gosh, did he want it."
Patrick pointed out that Dana got his ride with
Rahal by getting Team Ethanol to sponsor his No. 17
race car.
"Either you get a free ride or you bring a sponsor
along," she said. "You can write your own checks,
and you write your own ticket. He did the hardest
thing; he got a sponsor to stand behind and give him
a ride.
"They said, 'All right, Paul Dana, we believe in
you.' I remember at the Christmas party, and I was
sitting in a meeting with the team and I thought,
'What's going on here, is he going to drive for the
team? I was surprised, but he made it happen. Good
for him. And you know what, he was proving he was
driving the thing. I was a little scared because he
was keeping up with us. I think he did better than I
expected."
Rice, the 2004 Indy 500 winner, remembered Dana as a
driver with a lot of heart.
"That guy put everything he had into becoming a race
car driver," Rice said Tuesday. "Obviously he got a
little bit of later start than some of us; that's
just the way of the course. I think he had a lot of
drive, he had a lot of heart and he put everything
he had into becoming a race car driver.
"Obviously, it was short but he got to do what he
wanted to do and he made it to the top level."
Patrick said race car drivers understand that it is
their job to race, even under difficult
circumstances. She said there was no hesitation
about getting back in the cockpit this week.
"Things are a lot more somber, and rightfully so,"
she said. "Somebody died. It sounds a little bit
cold, but it is the job. We do have to keep racing,
but we will give him the best tribute and the best
thoughts and prayers that we can." |
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QUICK STATISTICS |
| Name: |
Danica Patrick |
| Birthdate: |
March 25, 1982 |
| Birth Place: |
Beloit, Wisconsin, USA |
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Columbus, Ohio |
| Height: |
5'2" |
| Birth Name: |
Danica Sue Patrick |
| Age: |
24 |
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Running, Weight Training, Yoga |
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DANICA PATRICK BIO |
Danica Sue Patrick (born March 25, 1982) is
a professional race car driver in the Indy
Racing League. She was born in Beloit,
Wisconsin, USA, and was raised in Roscoe,
Illinois. Patrick began karting in 1992. She
focused primarily on road racing with
seasons in Europe, the Toyota Atlantic
Championship and finally to the Indy Racing
League. In 2004, Patrick finished third in
the Toyota Atlantic Championship for Rahal
Letterman Racing.
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You know, it's
always good to have seen a track
before, just to kind of know where
the little bumps are here and there,
and just the general feel for the
size.
- DANICA PATRICK
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STANDINGS |
Texas Motor Speedway
Texas Motor Speedway 2005-06-11,
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PTS |
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Vitor Meira |
136 |
5 |
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Danica Patrick |
112 |
9 |
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Buddy Rice |
85 |
12 |
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2005 IRL IndyCar Series
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IRL |
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Driver |
Points |
Wins |
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1 |
Dan Wheldon |
600 |
6 |
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2 |
Tony Kanaan |
508 |
2 |
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3 |
Sam Hornish Jr |
482 |
2 |
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4 |
Dario Franchitti |
448 |
1 |
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5 |
Helio Castroneves |
418 |
1 |
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6 |
Scott Sharp |
412 |
1 |
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7 |
Vitor Meira |
387 |
0 |
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8 |
Bryan Herta |
378 |
1 |
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9 |
Patrick Carpentier |
361 |
0 |
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9 |
Tomas Scheckter |
361 |
1 |
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11 |
Alex Barron |
313 |
0 |
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12 |
Danica Patrick |
313 |
0 |
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13 |
Kosuke Matsuura |
308 |
0 |
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14 |
Scott Dixon |
301 |
1 |
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15 |
Buddy Rice |
277 |
0 |
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16 |
Tomas Enge |
237 |
0 |
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17 |
Ed Carpenter |
232 |
0 |
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17 |
Ryan Briscoe |
232 |
0 |
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17 |
Roger Yasukawa |
232 |
0 |
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20 |
A.J. Foyt IV |
219 |
0 |
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21 |
Darren Manning |
186 |
0 |
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22 |
Jimmy Kite |
146 |
0 |
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23 |
Buddy Lazier |
140 |
0 |
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24 |
Jaques Lazier |
68 |
0 |
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25 |
Jeff Bucknum |
63 |
0 |
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26 |
Giorgio Pantano |
48 |
0 |
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27 |
Paul Dana |
44 |
0 |
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28 |
Sebastien Bourdais |
18 |
0 |
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29 |
Adrian Fernandez |
16 |
0 |
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30 |
Townsend Bell |
15 |
0 |
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30 |
Felipe Giaffone |
15 |
0 |
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32 |
Kenny Brack |
10 |
0 |
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32 |
Larry Foyt |
10 |
0 |
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32 |
Jeff Ward |
10 |
0 |
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32 |
Richie Hearn |
10 |
0 |
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32 |
Marty Roth |
10 |
0 |
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32 |
Bruno Junqueira |
10 |
0 |
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Points System
Points system award: 50 points to the
winner, 40 points to second-place, and 35
points to third-place finisher. Pole
position also receives three points, and a
two points bonus is available for the most
laps led. |
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WHEEL RACING SCHEDULES |
Indy Racing League Indycar Series
Schedule 2006
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DANICA TIDBITS |
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Could Danica
Patrick, the breakout star of the
Indy Racing League, be hitting the
home of NASCAR in Concord?
We should have an answer in the next
few days.
The Cabarrus Regional Chamber of
Commerce is courting Patrick to
appear at its "Up to Speed:
Diversity in Motorsports" event, the
chamber's annual motorsports
gathering that focuses on changes in
the industry and the sport.
Racer Danica Patrick is speeding to
a grocery aisle near you. And she's
traveling with NASCAR driver Leilani
Munter and pro dragster Melanie
Troxel to be featured as "Race
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