🇺🇸 Danica Patrick

Danica Patrick was an established professional racing driver who spent 11 seasons across American open-wheel and stock car racing. She competed primarily in IndyCar from 2005 to 2018, with concurrent campaigns in NASCAR Xfinity and a pair of NASCAR Cup Series starts. Patrick raced for Rahal Letterman Racing in IndyCar and for JR Motorsports among other teams in the national series.[1]

Patrick took a single IndyCar win across 119 starts and seven podiums in the series. She accumulated 182 starts across IndyCar, NASCAR Xfinity and NASCAR Cup Series combined. Most of her racing came on ovals; 88 of her 119 IndyCar starts and 59 of her 61 NASCAR Xfinity starts took place on oval circuits. Against the established professionals who formed the bulk of her regular competition, Patrick typically finished behind them. She beat elite professionals including Denny Hamlin twice and Ryan Blaney four times across her NASCAR tenure, though her record against the front-rank IndyCar drivers who dominated the series in her era, Scott Dixon, a five-time champion, and Tony Kanaan, a former champion, remained weighted toward them.[2]