Stewart-Haas Racing driver breaks tie with Janet Guthrie
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With a ninth-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday, Danica Patrick earned a sixth career top-10 finish, most by a female driver in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history.
Patrick tied Janet Guthrie two races ago at Martinsville Speedway with a seventh-place finish. Guthrie earned five top-10 finishes in 33 starts with four top 10s in 1977 and one in 1978.
“I’m proud of everybody for keeping their heads up and staying positive and these are the things that happen when you work together as a team,” Patrick said after notching the record in her 90th career start. “Just keep at it. We had some luck on our side and I really feel like that positivity feeds into getting some luck and being at the right place at the right time. We just were.
“We came out of here with a top 10. I got to tell you I did not think — I was hoping for a top 20 after our weekend. We were like 30 something in practice. Lucked out in qualifying and got 26th, which like I said lucked out. It was a struggle of a weekend, but by all means you take these weekends.”
The Stewart-Haas Racing driver earned a top 10 in her first full-time season in 2013 followed by three top 10s last year and has two top-10 results in the first eight races of the season. She’s currently 13th in points and 13th in the provisional Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings.
Sara Christian, who had two top 10s in in the inaugural season of NASCAR’s premier series of 1949, is the only other woman to earn a top-10 finish in the series now known as Sprint Cup.
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