Danica Patrick 'pretty' well prepared for Daytona 500 debut


By Doug Halberstadt Sports Columnist NASCAR jump-starts its 2012 season this weekend with the 54th annual Daytona 500. “The Great American Race”

Danica Patrick knows what it feels like to turn 30. The racer is jettisoning her Lamborghini Gallardo she bought in 2007. "I don't drive it much at all really," Patrick told Dan Wetzel of Yahoo about the first car she ever bought.

After a successful career on the Indy circuit, Danica Patrick is switching her full-time attention to NASCAR. At a National Press Club luncheon in Washington DC, she said she would race with the same “will and energy” she always has.

Danica Patrick will run a full Nationwide Series schedule for the first time in 2012. (AP Photo) And yet the two drivers for the team have a combined 71 stock-car starts between them. Danica Patrick has started 25 Nationwide Series races, one ARCA race

Danica Patrick knows what it feels like to turn 30. The racer is jettisoning her Lamborghini Gallardo she bought in 2007. "I don't drive it much at all really," Patrick told Dan Wetzel of Yahoo about the first car she ever bought.