Danica Patrick hit in head by Rock on Dirt Track

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Danica Patrick says she's OK after being hit in the head by a rock Thursday night at a dirt track race.

Danica Patrick says she's fine after getting hit in the head by a rock on a dirt track.

Patrick got smacked by a stray rock while attending a race Thursday night, leaving her with a sore head. She had a brief conversation with medical staff Friday, but felt no problems.

Patrick says the rock hit her 'straight in the head,' and she's glad she had a hat on or 'there would have been blood.'

Patrick had one of the most significant crashes of her career last Sunday in Phoenix, slamming into a wall with about 100 laps left and leaving her with a stiff neck and a headache.

Patrick became the first woman to win a pole and lead green-flag laps at the Daytona 500 last month, finishing eighth..

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    As if a headache and sore neck following a hard crash in last week's Phoenix race wasn't bad enough for Danica Patrick, her night as a dirt track race fan could have been better.

    Patrick, attending a race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway dirt track, took a rock to the head on Thursday night, she said Friday.

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    'I feel like I have a concussion from last night,' she said, joking. 'It's really sore. It hit me straight in the head. Good thing I had a hat on, or I feel like there would have been blood.'
    Patrick's boyfriend, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., owns the Stenhouse Jr. Racing team and fields dirt cars. And team owner Tony Stewart also is a dirt track aficionado -- he races on them and owns Eldora Speedway.

    Joe Crowley, who is part of Patrick's public relations team, said Patrick had a prescheduled meeting with NASCAR medical Friday to follow up on some paperwork from her Phoenix crash.

    Since NASCAR had heard of the rock incident, they gave her a minor checkup and asked if she was OK.

    As for Phoenix, where Patrick blew a tire, sending her car hard into the wall, the Sprint Cup Series rookie said she experienced a sore neck for the first time after a crash.

    Patrick said she did not believe she had a concussion — 'I really felt fine,' she said — and was cleared by the medical staff.

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    Danica Patrick says she's OK after being hit in the head by a rock Thursday night at a dirt track race.

    Danica Patrick says she's fine after getting hit in the head by a rock on a dirt track.

    Patrick got smacked by a stray rock while attending a race Thursday night, leaving her with a sore head. She had a brief conversation with medical staff Friday, but felt no problems.

    Patrick says the rock hit her 'straight in the head,' and she's glad she had a hat on or 'there would have been blood.'

    Patrick had one of the most significant crashes of her career last Sunday in Phoenix, slamming into a wall with about 100 laps left and leaving her with a stiff neck and a headache.

    Patrick became the first woman to win a pole and lead green-flag laps at the Daytona 500 last month, finishing eighth.

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    As perhaps the most omnipresent personality in her sport, Danica Patrick was in typically transcendent form Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.

    But on this historic day at the World Center of Racing, the focus was all on her on-track performance — becoming the first woman in the 65-year history of NASCAR's premier series to capture the pole position.
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    'I've had the experience with mothers, fathers, daughters, sons listening to them say the reason why they're here as a family is because of me,' said Patrick, who turned a 196.434-mph lap to best Gordon for the top spot. 'It's also nice to hear families talk about that a little girl might say, 'But mommy, daddy, that's a girl out there.' Then they can have the conversation with their kid about you can do anything you want and being different doesn�

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    The accident on Lap 185 was further compounded when David Ragan slammed into her No. 10 GoDaddy.com Chevy SS.

    'Obviously I blew a right front,” Patrick said. “No real warning. I wasn't that tight either; I was sliding a little bit. I felt like most of the day I was chasing the rear. It was a little unexpected. I took a hard hit to the right, and then on the left. I'm fine.

    “The cars and the tracks are so safe. As a driver that's a nice feeling. It doesn't change the fact that we aren't going to get any points really coming out of today, and it would have been nice.”

    Patrick qualified 40th. She ran as high as 21st before she was collected in the 26th position. Patrick entered the weekend seventh in the Sprint Cup points standings after finished eighth last week in the season-opening Daytona 500. She finished 39th at Phoenix.
    “It would have been nice to get these points here, and then ... especially off of our eighth last weekend (in the Daytona 500), and then have a decent run in (Las) Vegas,” Patrick said. “Then when they re-establish the pits and the garage area, we would have been in better shape. But, these points in the beginning of the year are so important. We were making progress, but unfortu

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    Ragan hit Patrick's at such an angle that it sheared off the sheetmetal on the left side of Patrick's car like a can opener, spraying safety foam from the inside of the car everywhere.
    Patrick, who got out and walked away from the accident, wasn't the first driver on the day to suffer tire issues, as teammate Ryan Newman, among others, had previously hit the wall twice with right front problems. She said that there was no warning of any tire issues with her car before the crash and that the car suddenly drove straight to the right on her. Phoenix's flat layout is notoriously hard on brakes, especially those of ill-handling cars. Right front tires can have problems because of the buildup in brake heat from excessive usage in the corners.
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