DANICA PATRICK, Driver of the No. 10 GoDaddy Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing:
How special is it for you to go to Phoenix with GoDaddy headquarters nearby?
“It’s always fun to go to Phoenix because of GoDaddy. We’ll go out on Wednesday and Thursday and see a lot of the executives and employees. I’m excited to see the latest office in Tempe. It’s really fun to talk to everyone because I always want to know what the latest and greatest is with GoDaddy and new things they’re doing, and they want to ask me about racing and what we’re doing. I’m fortunate that we get to race in GoDaddy’s hometown twice a year so we get to visit them and have them at the track. I think it’s really important and it’s nice knowing I’ve got a lot of fans pulling for me at the racetrack.”
Overall thoughts on racing at Phoenix this weekend?
“We ran well there in the November 2012 but, unfortunately, we haven’t left there since without a torn-up racecar. We got caught up in accidents in November 2012 and then again in November 2013. It happened again this spring. It’d be nice to have a good, clean run with the GoDaddy car. I like Phoenix and, hopefully, our luck will turn around and we can have a good smooth run and do well. I do like Phoenix, though, and it’s a great track.”