Danica, Danica, Danica

Finally, Danica Patrick has signed an agreement with Andretti-Green Racing! I’m not a DP or AGR fan so the speculation and self-generated hype was irritating to say the least. One time I did get upset—when it was reported that Tony Stewart was going to field a team for her.

Following the same routine of other drivers nearing the end of their contract, Danica went investigated a jump to another team or NASCAR. The media as usual jumped on it. According to Robin Miller on Speed Channel’s Wind Tunnel, she asked Tony Stewart a “laundry list” of questions. That became Stewart-Haas Racing fielding an ARCA car, NASCAR truck and Nationwide car for her—with the help of Jr. Earnhardt and Kevin Harvick! That was the report that upset me.

When asked earlier in the summer about Danica going to NASCAR, I had remarked that Tony Stewart would put her right in the wall. I believed she would go through the same indoctrination that Earnhardt, Sr., served on him.