GoDaddy.com Racing Team Report

Round 1 of 36 - 54th Daytona 500 - Daytona
Car No.: 10 - GoDaddy.com Chevrolet Impala
Teammates: Dave Blaney - No. 36 Chevrolet Impala

Primary Team Members:

Driver: Danica Patrick
Hometown: Roscoe, Ill.
Race Strategist: Greg Zipadelli
Hometown: Berlin, Conn.
Spotter: Mark Robertson
Headquarters: Richmond, Va.
Owner: Tommy Baldwin
Hometown: Bellport, N.Y.

Daytona 500 - Chassis No. 333:

This is a brand new chassis that will make its debut during Daytona (Fla.) Speedweeks in preparation for the 54th Daytona 500 on Feb. 26.

Notes of Interest:

• The 54th Daytona 500 will mark Patrick's first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start.

• Patrick has career totals of one top-five, three top-10s and 18 laps led in 25 career NASCAR Nationwide Series races.
• In three Nationwide Series starts at Daytona, Patrick has improved with each start. She has finished 35th (February 2010), 14th (February 2011) and 10th (July 2011).
• The Roscoe, Ill., native led 13 of 100 laps and drafted with Tony Stewart en route to her 10th-place finish in the Nationwide Series race in July 2011 at Daytona.
• In her lone Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) start at Daytona in February 2010, Patrick started 12th and finished an impressive sixth.
• Been There Before: Patrick has competed in two GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Rolex 24 At Daytona events on the road course at Daytona. She finished eighth in 2009, driving a Pontiac Crawford for Childress-Howard Motorsports with co-drivers Casey Mears, Andy Wallace and Rob Finlay. In 2006, she co-drove a Porsche Crawford with Rusty Wallace, Allan McNish and Jan Lammers for Howard-Boss Motorsports. The team finished 24th after a mechanical failure just past the nine-hour mark.
• Big Improvement: In the 2011 Nationwide Series season, Patrick's average finish in her first seven races was 31.1, while her average finishing position in the last six events improved to 24.3. For 2012, her average finishing position in the 12 races she competed in was 17.4.
• Four Score: In March 2011, Patrick finished fourth in the Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the best-ever finish by a woman in a NASCAR national stock-car series, topping a fifth-place run by Sarah Christian in a Sprint Cup race in 1949 at Heidelberg (Pa.) Raceway.
• History Maker: Patrick became the first woman to win a major-league open-wheel race in a North American series in April 2009 by winning the IZOD IndyCar Series Indy Japan 300 at the Twin Ring Motegi oval in Japan.
• Point Taken: In 2009, Patrick finished fifth in IZOD IndyCar Series points, the best finish ever for a woman in the series.
• Big Stage: In seven Indianapolis 500 starts, Patrick finished in the top-10 six times, including a third-place result in 2009, the best finish ever for a woman in the historic race.