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IndyCar driver Danica Patrick will run a dozen stock car races in 2010 - beginning with the Feb. 6 ARCA season-opener at Daytona International Speedway - and may add a 13th event depending on how comfortable she feels in the car, her team, JR Motorsports, announced Thursday.As expected Patrick's stock car calendar will primarily book-end her IZOD IndyCar Series schedule, which runs March through October. The only question that remains is whether she will compete in the Feb. 13 NASCAR Nationwide opener at Daytona or put off her NASCAR debut until the Feb. 20 Nationwide race at California's Auto Club Speedway, located just outside Los Angeles.
"We want to give Danica the best opportunity to compete at Daytona and that includes making sure she is 100 percent comfortable in that driver's seat,'' JR Motorsports co-owner Kelley Earnhardt said. "The Nationwide race there is perhaps the most competitive race of the year.
"Once the ARCA race is complete, we will get with Danica and make a decision based on the best interests of her, the team and our sponsor, Go Daddy.''
Patrick is confirmed to compete Feb. 27 at Las Vegas and then will take four months off to concentrate her efforts on her ride with Andretti Autosport in the IndyCar Series.
She will enter a pair of summer Nationwide races - June 26 at New Hampshire and Aug. 14 at Michigan - before filling up fall dates in Dover, Del. (Sept. 25), California (Oct. 9 ), Charlotte (Oct. 15) and St. Louis (Oct. 23). She also plans to run the final three races of the season at Texas (Nov. 6), Phoenix (Nov. 13) and Homestead-Miami (Nov. 20).
"Like I've said before, we just want to be smart and calculative about this process,'' said Patrick, who will drive the No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevy for JR Motorsports
"The tracks we've selected not only compliment the IndyCar schedule, but will give me quality seat time at a variety of facilities.''
Team founder Dale Earnhardt Jr. will drive the team's second car (No. 88) in the Daytona Nationwide race and if Patrick does not enter, Kelly Bires will drive her No. 7 Chevy. Bires is slated to drive the No. 88 in all but one of the remaining Nationwide races.
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