Virginia 529 College Savings 250 – Practice

Virginia 529 College Savings 250 – Practice

Danica Patrick became NASCAR’s highest finishing female competitor in 2011 with a fourth-place finish at Las Vegas. She set another record for her gender as a fulltime NASCAR Nationwide Series competitor in the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet during the past season – the first female to produce a top-10 finish (10th) in a national series. Patrick’s 17th-place performance at Phoenix, her last of 10 premier series starts, readied her for a NASCAR Sprint Cup rookie campaign in 2013. (Getty Images)

RICHMOND, VA – SEPTEMBER 07: Danica Patrick, driver of the #7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet, signs autographs before the start of the NASCAR Nationwide Series Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at Richmond International Raceway on September 7, 2012 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images for NASCAR)

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