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CONCORD, N.C. – Danica Patrick was giddy Thursday as she recalled racing go-karts as a teenager at Charlotte Motor Speedway. She remembered where she registered, the spot where the trailers entered — and how she once wrecked a young Sam Hornish Jr.
Patrick wanted to make it clear that when she races on the big track at Charlotte for the first time in the Nationwide Series on Friday, she won't hesitate to be aggressive.
Watch out James Buescher.
"I'm not going to make it my mission to go out there and take him out because I don't want anything to take away from my race," Patrick said of Buescher, who wrecked her last weekend at California. "If he in any way starts to act up out there, yeah, I'm going to do something about it."
Patrick was running 17th Saturday and on pace for her best finish since beginning her foray into stock-car racing when she got tangled with Buescher and ended in the wall.
Patrick claims Buescher intentionally wrecked her — something he denies — and said Buescher has yet to apologize even though their cars were next to each other in a testing session earlier this week.
"There was an opportunity if he wanted to say something," she said.
Friday's race is the second in Patrick's season-ending six-event Nationwide stint, which began after the IndyCar season concluded. She'll run the same full IndyCar schedule and selected NASCAR races next year before deciding which way to take her career.
CONCORD, N.C. – Danica Patrick was giddy Thursday as she recalled racing go-karts as a teenager at Charlotte Motor Speedway. She remembered where she registered, the spot where the trailers entered — and how she once wrecked a young Sam Hornish Jr.
Patrick wanted to make it clear that when she races on the big track at Charlotte for the first time in the Nationwide Series on Friday, she won't hesitate to be aggressive.
Watch out James Buescher.
"I'm not going to make it my mission to go out there and take him out because I don't want anything to take away from my race," Patrick said of Buescher, who wrecked her last weekend at California. "If he in any way starts to act up out there, yeah, I'm going to do something about it."
Patrick was running 17th Saturday and on pace for her best finish since beginning her foray into stock-car racing when she got tangled with Buescher and ended in the wall.
Patrick claims Buescher intentionally wrecked her — something he denies — and said Buescher has yet to apologize even though their cars were next to each other in a testing session earlier this week.
"There was an opportunity if he wanted to say something," she said.
Friday's race is the second in Patrick's season-ending six-event Nationwide stint, which began after the IndyCar season concluded. She'll run the same full IndyCar schedule and selected NASCAR races next year before deciding which way to take her career.
