New track, same answer: Patrick offers no update on next year's plan
The answer, she says, also hasn’t changed.
“I’m fortunate that people keep asking. I’m really fortunate that it seems like people care and they want to know and hoping that each time it’s asked that they’ll be the one that gets the breaking news,” Patrick said Thursday. “There’s just nothing to report right now. I’m sorry. I feel like a broken record. I feel like really boring. Am I really boring you guys? I feel like that.”
Patrick and the other IndyCar drivers were preparing for Sunday’s 225-mile race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the circuit’s first stop here since 1998.
While Patrick would prefer to talk about racing on the small oval about 75 miles north of Boston, she inevitably ran into another round of questions about her future. Patrick is a draw no matter what kind of car she’s driving.
With six races left in this season, the Andretti Autosport driver is 15th in the standings with 207 points.
The season ends Oct. 16 at Las Vegas, just a little more than two months after Sunday’s run in New Hampshire.
“There’s no timeline. I think everyone is just of the mind-frame we’ll get through it piece by piece, but as I’ve been told, ‘You just go do your job and drive the car and do well,’” Patrick said. “When I do well, everything else takes care of itself. That’s kind of the best thing that I can do and I can focus on.”
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GOOD COMPANY: Patrick isn’t the only woman driving in Sunday’s race. There have been other female drivers in the circuit for some time now.
The biggest difference between her and women such as Simona de Silvestro and Ana Beatriz is that Patrick has won a race and has a much higher profile, with her many endorsements making her the most recognizable face, male or female, in IndyCar.
As far as getting more young women interested in the sport, Patrick said that’s been happening for a while.
“I think that’s kind of been happening for a while now. We’ve had a few girls in IndyCar throughout the last few years,” she said. “I know that when I get the attention it’s when I’m doing well. Just like anybody. But I think that being a girl it’s a little more interesting and different and unique.”
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WELCOME BACK: The last time IndyCars ran here was 13 years ago, when Tony Stewart won the 1998 IRL stop at NHMS.
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year or will she jump to NASCAR and run a full-time schedule? ( Jim Cole / Associated Press ) - Driver Danica Patrick gets ready for practice at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 in Loudon, NH, for Sunday's IndyCar auto race.
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Lee Spencer is the senior NASCAR writer for . She also is a correspondent for "Around the Track" on FOX Sports Net. As NASCAR's most popular driver — and son of the late Dale Earnhardt — some level of pressure is always present.
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With the diehard NASCAR fans, we understand the sounds and roar from the engines plus the air as these cars race by is a thing you cannot get at home, despite having a substantial screen plasma HDTV. The vibrational energy in a NASCAR event is unbelievable and we should employ this energy to light up the Race Track utilizing this energy. How which means you ask?
By lining the race track walls with special sheets and placing these large 4′ X 8′ sandwich sheets having a taunt film within the vibrational side and small copper lined tubes; many these tubes running perpendicular towards sheets, with magnets inside bouncing forwards and backwards. These magnets charge you a capacitor and turn into hooked up to an LED lighting system using fiber optics or reflectors, each hooked up to a .2 to .5 watt light. With hundreds of thousands of lights installed in the composite format it’ll glow the racetrack without the light pollution associated with streetlights, stadium lights or perhaps in large cities.
Currently this technology has found in those little flashlights the truth is advertised in the news which you shake and so they light, nevertheless, you will never need batteries. This idea of lighting up the racetrack is applying that technology using a larger scale with miniaturized parts getting together again the guts between your sandwich sheets. Let there be light, thru vibrational energy and there was. Think into it.
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