I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

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She had an 11th place finish at Watkins Glen before running in the top 5 all day and finishing 3rd at Nashville. Patrick won one pole position and was a consistent podium finiDanica Patrickr (top three); however Danica Patrick never won a race. She responded by wagging her finger at Smith as he drove by under caution.

With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race. Patrick holds the IRL record for most consecutive races running at the finish. On February 17 2013 Patrick became the first woman to win a pole position in Sprint Cup history doing so for the 2013 Daytona 500.