Danica Patrick: How did she finish in 2012 Daytona 500?

Danica Patrick's debut in the Daytona 500 was virtually over two laps, but got back on track to finish as only the third woman to compete in NASCAR's most popular events.

Patrick's car is damaged, when he spun off the track in the second round when he was caught up in a five car accident, and he had to return to the garage.

By the time the car was ready to join the action, the competition has reached 66 circle and Patrick is not eligible for championship points because of her limited schedule there was not a competitive race.

But Patrick was sure he could get something to get back involved in the packaging.

"People are working hard to get back on track. Had much to gain, if situations wise? No, but that was for me to gain that experience is running out," told reporters after the 38th location.

"I ran into a little package, the car is a little bent up so you do not feel perfect. As the race was delayed, but did not want to play a part, does not want to impress him," he added.

There was little Patrick could do to avoid a collision can put out five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson in last year's winner Trevor Bayne and.

"I think they picked up a lot of good tips, but I just want to be a nice beginning of the race was like a file was when I got back, but there was not," he said.

Patrick compete in NASCAR Nationwide Series full second floor and the top 10 Sprint Cup races after the switch to open-wheel IndyCar racing.

Their presence in the area caused a small set of standard protocol for the Daytona 500 race starter's announcement of a change in the "Lady and Gentlemen, start your engines. '

Matt Kenseth held off Dale Earnhardt Jr. and teammate Greg Biffle to win the race, so disappointed rivals, their inability to sneak him in the final laps.

Earnhardt narrowly missed a chance at a second Daytona 500 victory, as they held off Biffle, Kenseth of Roush Fenway team-mate several laps before a late burst per second.

The victory, the green-white-checker after the addition of two laps of the race was Kenseth wins second Daytona win after a short, rain-affected event in 2009. "It feels great, we went a little overtime, because we do not really go the whole distance the first time that we won," Kenseth told reporters after celebrating the Victory Lane.

"I had a very fast car all day, and there was much to overcome adversity, a lot of problems with the car. We were able to get found out and had a great pit stop at the end to give us a position and a very good feeling.

Kurt Busch's insolence continues to wreck a potentially great career

Speculation began to turn Wednesday, when it was learned that Kurt Busch flew to Las Vegas for the week Champion holidays not on a private jet, but on a business plan for the Charlotte airport. And "ramp up Thursday, when many wondered why Busch still current director of public relations had accompanied the driver of the National Motorsports Press Association / Myers Brothers Awards Dinner. It reached its peak on Sunday morning when all the signs began to point to a gap between Busch and Penske Racing, his team the past six years.

Monday morning finally came to the resolution. Both Busch and Penske called a "mutual agreement" a very clever euphemism Busch that allowed you to save a little face, but let's be honest here - a few more years on his contract and is currently available on zero rpm elite Sprint circuit Cup, It sounds like a career move any driver would do so voluntarily. While all sides say the right thing at the right time, anyone can connect the dots and see the fuller picture, that of an organization and / or sponsor a car that has probably had enough to put in place with a driver whose insolence to pass eclipsed even his immense talent on the track.

Although Busch said a few days ago that he was not worried about his job security, although he visited an offshore oil operated by Shell sponsors of the car last month, but began working with a sport psychologist to try to stop his anger terrible, it was all too much. The constant barrage of negativity on the radio during the events, the underestimation of his team and team leader, spoiling for fights with members of a body of media that were more than kind to him, in the circumstances, the obscene gesture and pulled always due to Dr. Jerry Punch Homestead - it was dripping water, as on a rock. Busch has never, ever heard a "little of humanity in some situations, it would have done wonders, never realized there was a difference between competitiveness and anger.

It's always been his worst enemy that way since his days with Roush Racing where things have grown cold despite winning the Busch Series championship in 2004 and showing the potential to earn much more. The problem is that the guy obviously has talent and immense, but it goes its own way. He won at least one race every year since his second season in 2002, qualified for the Chase six of the last eight years has been exceptional in the Penske cars had their problems at once. All that is buried, although in an avalanche of negative comments and personality conflicts. Here is a driver that has consistently advocated for wins and titles of two of the leading organizations in NASCAR, and ultimately could not make it work in both places.

What do you say? For all the hardships Kyle's little brother, the younger Busch has a game and a vulnerability to him - the attributes that enable it to overcome its occasional pitfalls, but if Kurt seems to be missing. No wonder that in his statement Monday, Busch made a point of saying she needs to "work on things I can do a better driver and a better person." Of course, there are many Kurt Busch in the world of professional sports, children who show equally virulent, contemptuous and are extremely arrogant and belittling, and get away with it because they are so good at what they do. In NASCAR, however, a driver is also the sponsor on the car hood and the owner of the list entry. Its cause is greater than he. There is a limit to the bad behavior, and Busch found twice.

This time, however, the destination can not be much softer. When Busch with Roush split after the 2005 season, he was released from his contract a year ago to take over the No. 2 Penske Dodge that was vacated by the removal of Rusty Wallace. He left a good situation for better, for he would never be the boy in the Roush over - not with Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle it - and was to join a tour of iconic Penske would have all the efforts of the field ( and possibly Dodge manufacturer) behind it. There was no question that Busch would continue to fight to win races and championships. There was absolutely no doubt that it will continue to build on what was quickly becoming a career of exceptional guide.

Now? Well, let's just say that it is not strange if you ask Busch will never win another race, as the bridges burned in the garage, the lack of sponsorship available, and the plethora of drivers looking for walks. From the perspective of the team is a buyer's market, and Penske has several good candidates - would not be the class of David Ragan look amazing in a white shirt Oxford Penske - to choose at a reduced price. Meanwhile, Busch is venturing into an environment where the best tour is available ... Front Row Motorsports? A racing car Furniture Row potential second? Whatever happens to the remains of Red Bull? For him to land in something almost as good as leaving behind a few pieces of the puzzle must be moved, and quickly, and there is no guarantee that this happens. It is too good for someone not to take a chance on him, but when your options seem limited to say the least.

It's a way hard to be a lesson to be thrown into the wilderness like that, but if the reasons are understandable Busch. The Penske team has always tried to offer the best face on everything - Radio Kurt helped lift the team improves, the former head of the team of Steve Addington skin was thick enough to take the foreign must realize that the whole team shared "common goal of improvement. In a way, these things can be true. But this does not justify everything. Addington and his engineers would not have to stand there and be abused almost every week, even when their cars proved good enough to win the race. Roger Penske would not have come on the radio again and again to try to refocus his driver. The lack of professionalism Busch should not be as white as competitiveness. But he was, and now we see the final result.

Watching Kurt Busch wheel race car can be a wonderful thing. On the track, at least, is to overcome the reputation that used to be too aggressive, and has evolved into one of the most reliable on the track in preparation - as evidenced by the way has invited his former teammate Ryan Newman the title of the Daytona 500 in 2008. Now, with his Penske days suddenly behind and in front of an uncertain future, Busch needs to demonstrate that the same type of growth on a personal level. And "enough talent that could one day be enshrined in the Hall of Fame NASCAR. First, however, needs to stop destroying his career.