Danica Patrick Takes Abundant Accident At Darlington, Questions What Happened, Heading into Sunday's Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, Stewart-Haas Racing's Danica Patrick was optimistic but had her plan cut out for her.
Wearing a atramentous firesuit for Sunday's race, Patrick tweeted out a account of herself adage she was the adult in atramentous for the night. Unfortunately, the accurate 'Lady in Black' had the endure beam as Patrick hit the bank harder to accompany out the ninth absorption of the night on Lap 188 of 367.
With abundant right-side accident to the No. 10 SHR Chevrolet Patrick brought the car to the absorption of her aggregation on pit road, but they were affected to advance it abaft the bank with abeyance damage.
"Everything seemed appealing in ascendancy out there," said Patrick, continuing in the garage. "I was accepting a appealing appropriate rhythm. It airtight appealing harder in (Turn) 4. I don't know."
As her aggregation formed feverishly to accomplish repairs, Patrick said she may accept had a annoy traveling down afore hitting the wall, but could not say for certain.
"It's absolutely accessible that it just got loose," she said. "For a few laps afore that I acquainted like I could cull the yaw appealing calmly through (Turns) 3 and 4. The one affair about Darlington is that you absolutely run a lot of curve about here. I acquainted bigger lower than higher, so at times I was a lane or two beneath the dotted line.
Debris is just something that happens actuality because you're application so abundant track. I'm not 100 percent abiding (of a collapsed tire). I could accept just got loose, but it could accept been a cut tire, too. Just a bummer."
Patrick took two tires in the aboriginal traveling of Sunday night's race, falling a lap down at one point. The aggregation was able to action aback assimilate the advance lap, but it all came to an end with her acquaintance with the bank just accomplished halfway.
"It's unfortunate," she said. "I adulation this car and this suit. The 'Lady in Black' affair was a air-conditioned thing, but abominably it's appear to an end."
Wearing a atramentous firesuit for Sunday's race, Patrick tweeted out a account of herself adage she was the adult in atramentous for the night. Unfortunately, the accurate 'Lady in Black' had the endure beam as Patrick hit the bank harder to accompany out the ninth absorption of the night on Lap 188 of 367.
"Everything seemed appealing in ascendancy out there," said Patrick, continuing in the garage. "I was accepting a appealing appropriate rhythm. It airtight appealing harder in (Turn) 4. I don't know."
As her aggregation formed feverishly to accomplish repairs, Patrick said she may accept had a annoy traveling down afore hitting the wall, but could not say for certain.
"It's absolutely accessible that it just got loose," she said. "For a few laps afore that I acquainted like I could cull the yaw appealing calmly through (Turns) 3 and 4. The one affair about Darlington is that you absolutely run a lot of curve about here. I acquainted bigger lower than higher, so at times I was a lane or two beneath the dotted line.
Debris is just something that happens actuality because you're application so abundant track. I'm not 100 percent abiding (of a collapsed tire). I could accept just got loose, but it could accept been a cut tire, too. Just a bummer."
Patrick took two tires in the aboriginal traveling of Sunday night's race, falling a lap down at one point. The aggregation was able to action aback assimilate the advance lap, but it all came to an end with her acquaintance with the bank just accomplished halfway.
"It's unfortunate," she said. "I adulation this car and this suit. The 'Lady in Black' affair was a air-conditioned thing, but abominably it's appear to an end."
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