{"id":4683,"date":"2012-11-02T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2012-11-02T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:02:24","slug":"danica-patrick-hopes-to-add-additional-races-to-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/11\/02\/danica-patrick-hopes-to-add-additional-races-to-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Danica Patrick hopes to add additional races to schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4684\" title=\"danicapatrick\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/danicapatrick-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/danicapatrick-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/danicapatrick.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Next season Danica Patrick will run the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule in a third car for Stewart Haas Racing. That has not stopped the Go Daddy driver from looking for additional opportunity&#8217;s to race in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick has raced in the Nationwide Series for JR Motorsports driving the No. 7 car for 55 races over the last two seasons. Whether she will continue to see seat time in that car is undetermined.<\/p>\n<p>JR Motorsports signed Regan Smith to run the entire season in the No. 5 car and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will race at Daytona for the team with sponsorship coming from TaxSlayer. TaxSlayer recently <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/10\/09\/taxslayer-will-continue-to-sponsor-jr-motorsports-with-new-long-term-deal\/\">signed<\/a> a long term deal with JR Motorsports which calls for them to sponsor 17 races next season.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Whitt is currently drive the team&#8217;s No. 88 car but thus far they have been unable to find enough sponsorship to put together a full season worth of races.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally the team would have two full time teams and a third team for races in which Earnhardt or other drivers competed in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to do a dozen or so races next year in the Nationwide Series,&#8221; Patrick said Thursday at Texas Motor Speedway. &#8220;I would like to do some that are really challenging tracks that are good for just getting laps on to help in the Cup car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is also no secret that Patrick would like to run the Indianapolis 500 this year. Following the Indianapolis 500, Patrick would then race NASCAR&#8217;s Coca-Cola 600, the series longest race of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love that event,&#8221; she said of the Indy 500. &#8220;I would love to try to do it again. &amp; We&#8217;ve been working hard for months now but we&#8217;re no further along to say anything right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next season Danica Patrick will run the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule in a third car for Stewart Haas Racing. That has not stopped the Go Daddy driver from looking for additional opportunity&#8217;s to race in 2013. Patrick has raced in the Nationwide Series for JR Motorsports driving the No. 7 car for 55 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[176],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-danica-patrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}