Danica Patrick and his management team are working on a plan that could lead in time full of NASCAR in 2012, sources said Tuesday.
Patrick hopes to finalize an agreement soon which would have its racing full-time in the NASCAR Nationwide Series next season. It would also run a few Sprint Cup events in 2012 before going full-time Cup in 2013.
The plan includes Patrick continues to compete in the 500 miles to Indianapolis next year. Patrick is the only woman ever to lead a tour in the Indy 500. It will participate in his seventh Indy 500 Sunday.
Which it will run for the team and other details are finalized, said sources.
Go - Daddy .com, which sponsors his Indy car and the car leads in the Nationwide Series, should stay with it if it is moving to NASCAR full time. Go Daddy is also sponsoring the car No. 5 Cup that Mark Martin variable frequency drives for Hendrick Motorsports, but Kasey Kahne replaces Martin next season.
Patrick, 29, ran full-time in the Indycar series since 2005. She became the first woman to win an event major open-wheel racing when she went to Victory Lane at Motegi in the Japan in 2008.
Patrick also ran a partial schedule of series Nationwide in the past two seasons for JR Motorsports, which is owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Its contracts with Andretti Autosport in the IndyCar IRL and JR Motorsports series in the Nationwide Series finish after this year. Patrick said the week last in Indianapolis, it did not any decision about his future.
"I suppose that anything is possible," she said, then. "But I know that for me, I have not yet made these decisions."
His success in IndyCar made her a national celebrity and one of sports most recognizable figures in America.
Patrick decision two years to test his skills in a stock car immediately led to speculation on the question of whether she would leave IndyCar race full-time in NASCAR.
Patrick is represented by IMG, one of the largest sports companies in the country of marketing.
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