Danica Patrick Research Paper

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Danica Patrick was a young girl who loved to be a girly girl. Danica was not into racing till her older years. She was a girly girl who liked to put on makeup and do fashion shows for her mother and father. She was not interested in racing.Danica went from being a girly girly to be a the most famous woman’s race car driver in America (Savage 11). Danica Patrick was born in Beloit,Wisconsin on March 25, 1982 to T.J.Patrick and Bev Patrick. She had one sister named Brooke Patrick (Savage 10). Her husband Paul Hospenthal.First would Danica spent childhood riding horses and go-karts with her sister.(Savage 10) Danica was 16 years old when she dropped out school and got her GED.(Savage 16)Secondly Danica moved to England to continue her racing career.In her first attempt at driving,Than Danica swerved to miss a truck in a parking lot and crashed head-on into a concrete wall.(Savage 11) …show more content…
She has won a lot of awards in Indycar racing.She was a great racer in Indy cart racing and then she got the chance to race in NASCAR.(savage 15)she has got better but she was better in Indy cart racing.Lastly, she is still good, she has won a lot of awards in Indycar and NASCAR (savage 17). She has had A LOT of accidents. Danica went from being a girly girl to being the most famous woman racecar driver.(Savage 10) Danica was an average teenage girly girl. Her favorite quotes are “you have got take things in small steps.” “When you look good you feel good.”and when you are racing you have to feel good to win. (Savage 27)she has said many of times that one reason she did not win a race was because she did not feel good or look good, and her head was not in the game.So why would you not go after your dreams? But sometimes it can be a long time before you find your

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