Danica Patrick

Danica Sue Patrick (born the March 25th 1982 with Beloit, in the Wisconsin) is a racing driver American. It returned in 2005 in the history of the automobile sport while becoming the first woman to carry out the 500 Miles of Indianapolis.

Biography

Danica Patrick began his sporting course in 1992 by the Karting. After several national successes, it leaves in England in 1998, where it starts its automobile career itself. It is pointed out in 2000 by finishing 2nd prestigious Formula Ford Festival Brands Hatch.

Danica goes back then to the United States where the old driver Bobby Rahal, reconverted as a director of stable, takes it under his wing. After having disputed the championship To bore Dodge Pro Series in 2002, it passes in 2003 in the championship of Formule Atlantic, the anteroom of the Champ Because. Within the stable of Bobby Rahal and David Letterman, Danica is highlighted this year by its beautiful services in track, but also by a series of photographs for one stores male which contribute to its incipient notoriety. Always Atlantic in 2004 Formulates some, it finishes third of the championship, but without the least victory with the meter.

In 2005, the career of Danica Patrick always passes to high speed when it integrates the championship IndyCar, on behalf of the Rahal-Letterman stable. After a discrete beginning of the season, Danica makes at the beginning of May speak about it as of the first free tests of the 500 Miles of Indianapolis. Cash among fastest in track, it quickly becomes the major attraction of the public and the media, including media general practitioners. It offers thus to its stable but also to the whole of the discipline an unhoped-for media exposure. One speaks then in the United States about Danica-handled . Qualified in fourth place on the grid (the best performance of a pilot woman in Indianapolis), Danica does not disappoint during the race, since in spite of some errors, it finishes in the fourth final place, after having carried out the exploit to carry out the test (a historical first for a pilot woman in Indy 500) to some turns of the arrival. The shortly after the test, she is logically elected better beginner of the year ( Rookie off the year ), and continuous to do the one of the national publications most prestigious (in particular Sports Illustrated ), eclipsing completely daN Wheldon, the winner of the test. Reverses of notoriety, its performances are also criticized: the pilot Robby Gordon thus reproaches him for being favoured by the technical payment of the IRL in which the cars are weighed in the absence of the pilot. Danica would thus profit from the advantage of being lighter than its main competitors

The championship continues in a brilliant way for Danica, which carries out the pole-position of the test of Texas in July (another woman, Sarah Fisher, had already carried out similar performance) and multiplies the blows of glare, but without never managing to impose itself. It finishes finally the championship in the 12th place of general classification, which makes of it the best beginner of the year.

In 2006, always within the Rahal-Letterman stable in the IndyCar championship, Danica Patrick knows a delicate beginning of the season, marked by the fatal accident of its fellow-member Paul Dana at the time of the sleeve of opening of Miami, like by the weak performances of its frame Panoz. Very waited Indianapolis 500 one year after being itself revealed there, it signs only one disappointing 8th place, without never to have been in the rate/rhythm of best. At the conclusion of this race, its team decides to give up the Panoz frame for a frame Dallara, which shows performances with the rise. But in spite of this progress, Danica Patrick announces at the end of the month of July 2006 its departure for the stable Andretti-Green Racing as from the season 2007.

Prize list

Better beginner of the IndyCar championship in 2005
Better beginner of the 500 Miles Indianapolis 2005

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