Patrick's Groundbreaking Driving Career Ends With Indy Crash
Anees Ahmed (@Aneesah05582539) Published May 28, 2018 | 10:40 AM
Danica Patrick's 20-year auto racing career came to an abrupt end Sunday when she crashed out of the 102nd Indianapolis 500.
Chicago, May 28(APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th May, 2018 ) :Danica Patrick's 20-year auto racing career came to an abrupt end Sunday when she crashed out of the 102nd Indianapolis 500. Patrick, the only woman to win an IndyCar race and start from pole at the Daytona 500 NASCAR stock car race, escaped injury after losing control and hitting the wall on the 68th of 200 laps on the famed 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval, where Will Power became the first Australian to win "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing".
"Today was really disappointing, for what we were hoping for and what you want for your last race," said the 36-year-old American, who slid back across the track and came to rest in the infield.
She climbed out of the neon-green car and was examined and released from the on-site medical facility. "But I'm grateful for all of it. I wish I could have finished stronger." Patrick had said she would be turning her attention to her varied business interests after completing what she dubbed the "Danica Double" of the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500.
She finished 35th at Daytona after being involved in a six-car crash. Patrick, returning to Indianapolis for the first time since 2011, qualified seventh-fastest in a car owned by Ed Carpenter, the hometown hero who qualified for his third Indy 500 pole and happily backed Patrick's bid for one last ride.
Patrick acknowledged it wasn an emotional day -- as she said goodbye not only to the Brickyard but to her whole career. "It's an entire career. But what really launched it was this, so it's both of them," she said.
"I'm pretty sad," she added. "I will say, though, for sure I'm very grateful for everybody and for being able to finish it up (at Indianapolis) like I wanted to." Patrick was at a loss to explain the cause of her crash.
"The first thing I said was 'I'm not really sure what happened,'" she said. "It just seemed to come around, it seemed pretty late off the corner, so I don't know." Patrick had been pointed at a professional racing career since becoming a national champion go-kart racer.
Her parents approved her dropping out of high school in 1998 and moving to England, where she competed for three years before returning to America and driving in development circuits for three years until landing an IndyCar ride in 2005.
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