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NNS: Patrick Finalizing Deal With JR Motorsports, Stewart-Haas
Danica Patrick is expected to compete in select Sprint Cup races in 2012 with Stewart-Haas Racing...
Bob Pockrass  | http://www.scenedaily.com  |  Posted August 02, 2011   Charlotte, NC
Danica Patrick is reportedly set for a full-time Nationwide Series ride next season at JR Motorsports, and will run select Sprint Cup events for Stewart-Haas Racing. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Danica Patrick is finalizing a deal to run a full Nationwide Series schedule for JR Motorsports and a partial Cup schedule with Stewart-Haas Racing next season, according to The Associated Press.

JR Motorsports spokesman Mike Davis and Patrick agent Mark Dyer both declined to comment on the report.

It has been widely speculated that if Patrick moved from IndyCar to NASCAR full-time, she would run the full Nationwide schedule for JRM, where she has run partial schedules the last two years with sponsorship from GoDaddy.com.

She also is expected to compete in select Sprint Cup races with Tony Stewart’s Stewart-Haas Racing, according to the AP.

Stewart-Haas co-owner Tony Stewart said in May that he hadn’t talked to Patrick about next year but was interested in having her join his organization.

The 29-year-old Patrick, whose fourth-place finish at Las Vegas was the highest of any female in a national NASCAR touring series race, has one IndyCar victory but likely will leave open-wheel racing behind after 2011.

“I'm racing [part-time] in NASCAR and I've not made anyone wonder whether or not I like it,” Patrick said at Daytona last month. “Other than that, these things, as I've said from the beginning of the year, are complicated and they take time.

“Whether I'm coming here or not has yet to be signed, sealed and delivered. And I might not be. Only time will tell.”

Patrick is 11th in the IndyCar standings driving for team owner Michael Andretti.

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