Danica finishes 32nd at PIR.

 Danica's 2010 season has been all about learning what it takes to race a stock car. That even includes how to retaliate on other drivers to show you won't be taken advantage of during a long season. On lap 130, Danica was running 24th when the #35 car of Tony Raines nipped Danica's left front and tore up her fender making the tire rub and smoke up. While she was trying to drive the incident off, the #27 car of Alex Kennedy tries to take advantage of a slow #7 and uses her as a right-side bumper. Tony Eury, Jr. gives her the blessing to "express her dismay" at Kennedy's lack of respect and she gives Kennedy a shove into the wall. As she does that, her pit crew started celebrating her revenge. With 43 laps to go, Danica was trying to pass the #15 car of Michael Annet for 23rd spot when she got loose and hit the wall after turn 2. Unfortunately, the hit really damaged the rear track bar and she had to call it a race. If there is anything for her to take away from this race, it would definitely be that sometimes, in stock car racing, you will have to be quite malevolent to other drivers if they keep disrespecting you out on the track. That's what fenders are for...right?

Danica qualifies 28th for NNS race at Phoenix International Raceway.

Danica will start 28th for the Wypall 200 at Phoenix today at 4pm EST. Considering all the PR she has done all week, I'm surprised she remembers how weird the set up is at this track.

Chevy back to Indycar?

The IZOD IndyCar Series has scheduled a press conference for Friday morning in Indianapolis. The news conference, which is scheduled for 10:00am EST, will be held at the Hall of Fame Museum at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. There has been a report that appeared online claiming that GM will announce this Friday a return to IndyCar with its Chevrolet brand, to coincide with the new engine and chassis rules due to come into effect in 2012. The report claimed that Chevy will employ a twin-turbo V6 configuration for its new engine, although it did not specify whether the engine would be produced in house or by an independent race engine manufacturer and then be badged as a Chevrolet.

Danica to appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" tonight.

Danica will make a guest appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" tonight. Other guests include Chris Pine and Blake Shelton.

Danica finishes 22nd after starting 28th at Texas Motor Speedway.

After qualifying 28th for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at the Texas Motor Speedway, Danica finishes 22nd. During the 12th lap, she got some right front damage from avoiding a crash. Danica pitted and got back into the field in 42nd spot. As the race progressed, her car seemed to be getting faster running really good lap times halfway into the race. Unfortunately due to the lap12 incident, she fell 2 laps back and really didn't have any chance to make them up.

Danica to make guest appearance on The Simpsons.

 

Danica and actress Rachel Weisz will make guest voice appearances on The Simpsons airing Sunday, Nov. 28 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

Tony Kanaan leaves AA, and Ryan Hunter-Reay stays.

It has been announced today on the Andretti Autosport website that Tony Kanaan and AA have reached an agreement to terminate their current multi-year contract. The signing of today’s agreement releases Kanaan from his duties as an IZOD IndyCar Series driver at Andretti Autosport and allows him to sign with another team, effective immediately. Most likely due to the unfortunate pulling of sponsorship from 7-11. I truly hope TK signs with Target Ganassi and be the third driver on that team, with Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti. That would be an awesome trio.

Also, Andretti Autosport and driver Ryan Hunter-Reay announced today they have signed a two-year contract that keeps him with the team through the 2012 season. Should be quite the trio with Marco Andretti and Danica...only if AA can get their team equipment and strategies back to form from the mess it had been this last season.

Danica wins Most Popular Driver in the IZOD IndyCar Series.

Danica and Pippa Mann were honored as the Most Popular Driver in the IZOD IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights, respectively, during the INDY DownForce Banquet Saturday, October 23, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

It was the sixth consecutive Most Popular Driver Award for Patrick.

The awards were determined by the vote of the fans at all Indy Racing League events throughout the season and on indycar.com. INDY DownForce, the Indy Racing League’s official fan club, facilitates the balloting. And yes, I am a lifetime member of INDY DownForce and voted over 100 times for Danica during the 2010 season. You shouldn't be surprised.

Danica finishes 22nd after starting 41st at Gateway.

This year has not been a very good year for qualifying for races in both Indycar and NASCAR for Danica. I've already "vented" my frustrations on what had been going on this past Indycar season with Andretti Autosport. Hopefully they figure it out for 2011 considering it could be the last season of Danica racing for AA. As for her NNS car, there is so much you can ask her to do if she isn't familiar with either how her stock car handles, or if she never has raced at that track before. Gateway International Raceway, located in Madison, Illinois, is definitely one of those tracks. And although it's within Danica's home state, this is the first time she has ever raced there.

Halfway through the race, she got back to the lead lap being down a lap at 28th position. After that, she started getting racey, slowly but surely moving her way up the field and got up to 25th. Then a 10 car accident happened right in front of her and she was able to "kinda squeak" her way through it, but got tagged in the right rear and tapped the inside wall. The damage didn't seem too bad so Tony Jr. and the JR Motorsports boys got to work on tuning the #7 GoDaddy Chevy Impala. Unfortunately, the rear track bar got bent and despite the pit crew trying to "quick-fix" it, she had to pull the car off again. The crew replaced the track bar after going down 9 laps, but she reentered the race at 24th. With 10 laps to go, Steven Wallace with fresh tires got into the back of Danica's slow #7 car at turn 2 and spun her out. It happens when you're just trying to clock laps in and unfortunately get in the way. Nobody at fault there. She officially finished 22nd. Bottomline, it came down to just surviving and getting to the end of the race. A race pretty much dominatated by the Penske teams of Allgaier and Keselowski.

By the way...hey, Sean Caisse, take your 20 seconds of camera time, and then just go away. Stupid kid needs to learn how to shut the hell up.

Danica has her best NNS finish of 21st at Charlotte.

Danica had quite an interesting race at Charlotte Motor Speedway tonight. From "kissing" the wall coming out of turn 4 on the 8th lap, to being 1 of 37 cars not on the lead lap halfway through the race, this was a crazy race where pit stops really determined how well you could hang with Kyle Busch and Clint Bowyer. Then all of a sudden, fellow Michigan boy (Go Blue!), Brad Keselowski, just took over the race out of nowhere. Happy for Brad K. and Penske. Very proud of Danica. She really didn't have a very fast car, but she stuck with it and stayed very consistent since she started 18th.