Danica Patrick usually draws attention at whatever track she is racing at, but when the Sprint Cup heads to Bristol on Sunday, she will draw eyes for a different reason, as he No. 10 Go Daddy car will be sporting a brand new paint scheme for the race in honor of St. Patrick's Day.
According to Motorsport.com, Patrick will be running with a special green paint scheme on Sunday for the Food City 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Her Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet will be designed with shamrocks and a green color in honor of the holiday and the picture of the car was revealed on Twitter on Thursday.
Patrick will be racing in the Sprint Cup at Bristol for the second time after making her debut last year and finished 29th. At one point she was in the top 20 and was on the lead lap, but she got into an accident after hitting another car and fell behind. At the same event she finished ninth in the Nationwide race.
Last year Patrick finished in the top 10 in the Nationwide standings and is moving over the Sprint Cup full time along with her boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who took home the past two titles on that circuit. Patrick has had an up and down start to the season, as she won the pole at Daytona and led laps in the Daytona 500, but she had a rough race at Phoenix and now has a chance to rebound in Bristol.
Patrick has made headlines for her relationship with Stenhouse and she also was in the news last week leading up the Las Vegas race, as she was hit in the head with a rock while attending a dirt track race at the motor speedway. She later said she felt fine and it did not delay her from running in the race on Sunday.
She also got some praise from Formula One boss Bernie Eccelstone, who said that he would love to bring her to his sport, as she could help bring fans and attention to the racing circuit after she broke barriers in NASCAR and the IndyCar series.
Ecclestone told the F1 website on Wednesday that "she will hardly want to give up the exposure she has in the U.S. to come here and maybe not make it. All the things that people worry about - whether a woman can cope with the G-forces and all that - she has proven that she can."
