Danica Patrick is out to prove she is more than just a pretty face as she rolls through the remaining eight races she is scheduled to run in NASCAR's Nationwide Series this year.
Patrick has won over a great many fans, with not a few being women. There are still the staunch naysayers who doubt she will ever be a threat to win a race in NASCAR, but the petite firecracker is out to prove them wrong.
The driver of the No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet for JR Motorsports ran a baker's dozen worth of races in 2010. This year she is running one less race with her next one in NASCAR being shortly after she attempts to fulfill her dream of winning the Indy 500 with the IndyCar series.
Her first year with stock cars was a bit chaotic as she attempted to learn the new lingo, the feel of a heavy fendered car and how to handle the fender-benders that came her way while racing with the boys.
Patrick found herself having to refocus each time she flipped from one series to the other with her open-wheel car being so much different from the cars of NASCAR.
This season she once again finds herself going back and forth between the series, but this year she isn't dogged by the newness of racing in a stock car series.
Time will wind down this year and Patrick will need to choose the direction she wants to take her racing career.
Let's take a stroll through 11 predictions, in no particular order, regarding Patrick's performance during the balance of the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
Some will give credence to these statements, and others will find them nearing the status of comical because of their beliefs about the diminutive driver.
See what you think!
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