Danica Patrick has an estimated net worth of $18 million
Danica Patrick is an American auto racing driver, model, and spokeswoman with an estimated net worth of $18 million. She is 5’2″ and weighs 110 pounds. Danica Sue Patrick was born on March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin. When Patrick won the 2008 Indy Japan 300, she became the first and only woman victor in an Indycar Series. You can say Patrick was born with a racer’s DNA as her mother was a mechanic and her father raced snowmobiles, motocross and midget cars. Patrick began racing when she was 10 at the Sugar River Raceway. She dropped out of high school, got her GED and moved to England to race in the British national series and further her racing career. She raced there for three years, including finishing second in Britain’s Formula Ford Festival.
In 2002, she moved back to the U.S. and began racing in the Barber Dodge Pro Series and a year later to the Toyota Atlantic Championship where she won a pole position and several podium finishes. The next year (2004) she would end the year in third place. Her racing team announced she was being promoted to the IRL IndyCar Series in 2005, becoming the fourth woman to compete in the Indy 500. Patrick would race IndyCars for seven years, and leading the charge for female race drivers across the planet. She had several breakthroughs including winning her first event at the 2008 Indy Japan 300, finishing as high as 5th in year end points and in the top 3 seven times. In 2012, she moved over to the premier American race series, NASCAR, competing in both the Nationwide and Sprint series. Although she has yet to taste victory, she finished in the top-10 7 times in Nationwide and one-time in the Sprint Cup.
Since she came to national prominence racing Indy cars, Patrick has been a high-profile celebrity attracting major sponsors who are looking to take advantage of her trendsetting career and good looks. She has been a consistent guest on late-night television, was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2005 and has posed for numerous publications. Her Go Daddy commercials are among the most popular to air during Super Bowls and has been a guest star on several reality shows. She was married in 2005 but divorced seven years later. In 2013, she began dating another NASCAR driver.
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