Patrick: NASCAR cars ‘way easier than an IndyCar to drive’

Danica Patrick now says stock cars are easier to drive

Following Wednesday’s practice session at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Danica Patrick made her opinion very clear when asked to compare driving a NASCAR stock car vs. an IndyCar.

“All the IndyCar fans out there might find this warm and fuzzy, but everyone would always ask me if I had a hard time driving those big old stock cars and if they were really physical, and I’m like (she snickers), ‘No, they are way easier than an IndyCar to drive.’"

Patrick also said driving an IndyCar is more of a finite exercise, where attention must be paid to everything more closely than in a stock car, all the way down to the safety belts.

“Maybe this isn’t a popular thing to say but you didn’t have to run the belts all that tight in a stock car," she said. “You didn’t have to worry about your helmet or the padding that much (in NASCAR). It was all just like fine.

“But in an IndyCar, it’s all critical."