Here comes Danica

Danica Patrick had the fastest car in practice Friday for the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series race at Iowa Speedway.
She was ahead of Team Penske drivers Ryan Briscoe and Helio Castroneves in the abbreviated practice session on the 7/8th-mile oval. There were 26 drivers on the track for Friday's practice. Two sessions were scheduled, but the two-hour afternoon session was cancelled because of rain.
"I think that anybody watching could see we were running a more traditional racing line around the track instead of around the bottom," said Patrick, driver of the No. 7 entry for Andretti Green Racing. "I was able to drive on the bottom for some of the track when I did a sticker (tire) run at the end, but I couldn't do it the whole way around. The racing is going to be a lot more exciting with a lot more passing and just better, in general, than last year."
Qualifying for the Iowa Corn Indy 250 is Saturday.