| Danica Patrick has agreed to run 13 races this year | | | | will continue to drive in Danica Patrick's place this |
| with NASCAR's Nationwide Series, but during her | | | | entire spring, but the only thing for certain at this |
| mid-season absence from stock car racing to resume | | | | point is that the leading lady of motorsports won't |
| her celebrated role in the IRL, who will fill her seat in | | | | return to her car with JRM until June 5, when she |
| JR Motorsports' No. 7 vehicle? That's the question of | | | | resumes her NASCAR role in the Federated Auto |
| the month for those on the NASCAR circuit, and it's | | | | Parts 300 at Nashville. |
| one crew chief/JRM co-owner Tony Eury Jr. hopes | | | | Danica Patrick's three Nationwide Series starts in the |
| to have the answer to soon. | | | | 2010 season have been highly disappointing for fans |
| Announced in late March, Eury Jr. spoke to ESPN | | | | waiting on the grand entrance of No. 7 onto the |
| about JR Motorsports' intentions with Patrick's No. 7 | | | | NASCAR circuit, but the GoDaddy spokeswoman has |
| car this spring while she's racing her IndyCar vehicle, | | | | sure been a leading force behind the huge sales of |
| saying, "The bottom line is the No. 7 car is too good | | | | <a rel="nofollow" |
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| Nationwide Series teams competing every week." | | | | to races this season, anyway. Patrick has been given |
| While Patrick is busy racing her GoDaddy open-wheel | | | | the chance to take the NASCAR plunge this year, |
| car in IRL races this spring, another NASCAR driver | | | | and even though she's coming around to stock car |
| will step up to her Nationwide No. 7. Just who this | | | | racing slower than expected, the future looks |
| fill-in driver is remains to be a stable pick, though | | | | promising for the queen of the racetrack. |
| Scott Wimmer has taken the reins for Nationwide | | | | Patrick's 2010 season so far has consisted of three |
| races at Bristol (March 20) and Nashville (April 3). | | | | Nationwide starts, beginning with her Feb. 13 debut at |
| Wimmer will perhaps bring some good fortune to the | | | | Daytona, where a 12-car pileup took her out of the |
| yet-unlucky No. 7 stock car, especially as he notched | | | | race early. She finished the next race at Fontana |
| a respectable No. 10 place in the Bristol race in March | | | | – albeit in 31st place – but in Las Vegas on |
| – a race that was stacked with Cup Series | | | | Feb. 27 she was once again ousted with no luck, |
| drivers including Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Carl | | | | colliding with Michael McDowell (who took full blame |
| Edwards, Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle and Reed | | | | for the incident) on lap 83 and thus ending her start |
| Sorenson. | | | | to a not-so-dazzling 2010 in the Nationwide Series. |
| It's yet to be determined whether or not Wimmer | | | | |