The “Danica Double” is complete, and with it, Danica Patrick’s full-time career in motorsports has come to an end.
Patrick finished 30th after wrecking on Lap 68 in the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, her first IndyCar race since 2011. She started the race from the seventh position.
The “Danica Double,” which Patrick dubbed her running of the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 in 2018, was intended to serve as a farewell to her racing career.
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Patrick finished 35th in the Daytona 500 earlier this year after crashing out of the race on Lap 101 of 207.
The 36-year-old retires as one of the most prominent women in the sport, even if she didn’t always have the success on the track to equal her fame. Her highest finish in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race was sixth in Atlanta in 2014, and she had seven top 10s in her five full-time NASCAR seasons that were all behind the wheel of the No. 10 car for Stewart-Haas Racing. She had one pole — the Daytona 500 in 2013 — becoming the first woman to earn a pole award in NASCAR history.
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Patrick’s highest finish in the season standings was 24th (in both 2015 and 2016), and she had an average finish of 24.1 in her career.
In IndyCar, she became the first woman to lead the Indianapolis 500 in her first appearance in the race in 2005. She ended up finishing fourth when she lost the lead to conserve fuel. She had her best finish of third in the race in 2009.
Though Patrick’s full-time racing career might be over, her time in the spotlight is not. She announced last week that she will host the 2018 ESPY Awards in July, becoming the first female host.