Danica Patrick, driver of the No. 10 GoDaddy Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), finished 27th in Sunday’s Kobalt 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after handling issues plagued her car for most of the race.
Patrick started the race from the 21st position and was able to work her way up to 17th before the handling went away on her No. 10 Chevy. Crew chief Daniel Knost called for chassis, packer and air pressure adjustments throughout the first two-thirds of the race, but Patrick continued to battle a car that was loose on entry and tight in the center of the corner.
She went down a lap to the leader at lap 82 after a sequence of green-flag pit stops and had no luck in getting her lap back on the subsequent long, green-flag run. Patrick went a second lap down to the leader at lap 128, and when she entered pit road under caution at lap 174, she asked the team to take a big swing at the adjustments.
Patrick restarted in the 32nd position, and when the caution flag waved just a few laps later, she noted the car was the best it had been all day. In the closing laps of the race she worked her way up to the 27th position and took the checkered flag three laps down to the leader.
“We got a little off track there the first couple of pit stops and weren’t able to make it back up,” Patrick said. “I needed to get into the corner harder, but the car was so loose that I couldn’t arc it the way I needed to. I’ve had better days at the racetrack, but the GoDaddy Chevrolet was definitely better the last few runs, so that was a positive. And the guys did a good job on pit road today, especially considering all the adjustments we made throughout the race.”
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