Danica Patrick got off to a nice start in today’s Nationwide series race at Daytona. She led the first two laps. Then lap 49 of the 120-lap race hit her hard. She found herself in the Turn 3 wall and knocked off-track by her very own JR Motorsports teammate Cole Whitt.
Patrick’s #7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet (not her main car, the #10 Impala) spent a half hour in the garage while the team made massive repairs to the front end. She returned to the track with 25 laps left and collected points toward the Nationwide championship in her first Nascar season.
You can watch the video of the wreck and hear the censored version of Patrick’s f-bomb tirade after the jump.
Her 38th-place result won’t reflect her effort on the day. She started from the pole position, only the second female to do so in one of NASCAR’s three major touring series. And she had been running among the top eight for much of the early race, but had just been shuffled back in the pack when the accident occurred.
“The (expletive) 88 hit me while were in a big pack,’’ a frustrated Patrick exclaimed on the team radio as her car was coming to rest. “What the (expletive) was he thinking?’’
Her crew chief Tony Eury Jr., who is also a part owner in JR Motorsports, was equally upset, replying to Patrick, “He just crashed the (expletive) out of you.’’
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