Patrick returns to Indianapolis Motor Speedway next weekend to race for the first time since she became a full-time NASCAR competitor this season.
But instead of driving an Indy car, she’ll be competing in the first-ever Nationwide Series race to be held at the fabled Brickyard.
Patrick is prepared for a much different event, having already strategized what she’ll have to do behind the wheel of a much different vehicle.
“In an Indy car, there’s no lifting and it’s right around the bottom of the track, and it’s a big, high-speed chess match with cars running very close to each other,” Patrick said. “In a stock car, you run a more traditional line, there’s lifting and perspective-wise, they definitely have a different feel based on the lines you run, and the fact that in IndyCar, you sit so low.
“It happens everywhere I go and when I’ve been there in an Indy car to a stock car, it’s always just a little bit different.”
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