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Danica Patrick, who races for the Honda-powered Andretti-Green IRL team, has spoken of wanting to make the jump to the world's premier form of motorsport, Formula 1. Later this year, according to Honda F1 CEO Nick Fry, the team is going to give her that chance. Danica will be put into Honda's Earth Dreams F1 car in November, probably at the Barcelona or Jerez tracks in Spain, for a full-scale test. Said Fry, "We will put her into our car after the season at the latest and see how quick she is."

The recent record of IndyCar drivers succeeding on the other side of the pond is mixed. It's still too early to tell with Sebastian Bourdais at Toro Rosso, though he appears to be handling things well enough. Jacques Villeneuve did well, but Michael Andretti did not. Scott Dixon, the 2003 IRL champ and 2008 Indy 500 winner tested with Williams-BMW in 2004, but didn't get a seat. Danica's already won a place in U.S. racing history. We'll find out in November if she's fast enough to do it in Europe, as well.


Source: Danica Patrick scores full test with Honda F1 - Autoblog

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Now this will be interesting to see. She looks good, drives good and probably.... Oh well.

Wow, good for her. Still I doubt she can be successful in F1. F1 and GP2 is a different business from champcar and indycar. She wasn't been raised in the same competitive environment, F1 is cutting edge.

Great for her! It would be good if she woudl be real fast... then she could replace Rubens.

I thought Nick Fry wasn't going to give her a test. Didn't he deny the rumours just 2 days ago?

Yeah. Some days ago I read that she was denied a test drive, I guess her female charisma managed to convince him. I would love her to replace the old geezer Rubens.

No she would replace Sato, as the one crashing every race.

Funny how F1 has more crashes now that Sato is gone.

Should replace Piquet. I'd love to see Alonsos reaction on getting beaten by a woman.

I think he will react like a woman, and those 2 will have a full on catfight.

Yeah something like that wouldn't be to far off.
I hope for her she can do it well. Man, a woman that looks that great and that know how to drive a car , too bad I'm already married

Wonder if she cooks and cleans too...

Lol, I hope she does well though. A woman in F1 should be really interesting. And should make Bernie even richer.

Maybe she could do something about his eyebrows
It would be great to see him get beaten by a women.