Danica Patrick, who will start her final race on Memorial Day Weekend, put her Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet into Sunday’s Fast Nine shootout for her final race and said her overriding emotion was relief. Patrick’s four-lap average of 227.610mph put her in eighth after everyone had completed their first runs, and as the Bump Day procedure began, Oriol Servia, Conor Daly and Jack Harvey all ran before three serious assaults on her time. Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay tried to improve his time and break into the top nine but couldn’t improve on 13th. Then Scott Dixon, who had been sitting ninth, made a second run and his Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda beat Patrick to put her on the...
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