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Patrick crashes in Las Vegas Nationwide race

Sat 27th, February 2010

Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - Danica Patrick's day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway came to an end early when she wrecked just before the half-way point in Saturday's Sam's Town 300 Nationwide Series race.

On lap 84, Patrick bumped into Michael McDowell and then slammed into the wall coming out of turn two. McDowell slid up the track and made contact with Patrick again when he hit the wall. She took her car to the garage with heavy damage to the front end of it.

"The car in front of me was going really slow, and I caught him down the front straight," said Patrick, who was running 27th at the time of the incident. "He was just going slow, so I went to go underneath him as he drifted up to the wall, and then he turned down in. I guess I probably should have seen all the tape on the left rear bumper and said, 'I probably shouldn't be on the left rear bumper.' Sure enough, he turned down and then took us both out."

Patrick made her last Nationwide start before taking a four-month hiatus to focus on her full-time IndyCar Series schedule. She returns to NASCAR's second-tier series the last weekend in June at New Hampshire.

Last week, Patrick completed the 300-mile race at California, but finished three laps behind in 31st. She was 35th in the February 13 season-opener at Daytona after getting caught up in a 12-car crash during the mid-stages there.