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Danica Patrick

American racing driver (born 1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Danica Sue Patrick is an American former professional racing driver who competed in the IndyCar Series from 2005 to 2011 and the NASCAR Cup Series from 2012 to 2018. She is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel car racing—her victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only win by a woman in IndyCar.

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“Danica Patrick” enters the record as american racing driver (born 1982). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Danica, Patrick and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2011, 2012, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Danica, Patrick and American.
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“Danica Patrick” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Danica, Patrick and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Danica Patrick” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.