Danica Patrick gets ride for Daytona 500

A.J. Perez | USA TODAY

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The first leg of the Danica Double is set.

Danica Patrick will drive for Premium Motorsports at next month’s season-opening Daytona 500 as part of a one-race deal announced Monday. Patrick retired from full-time racing in November, the same time she announced she’d race twice more --- the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 in May --- before calling it a career.

“I keep saying, I couldn’t have written a better story about how this would all fall into place --- going with the flow is working out beautifully,” Patrick said in a statement. “I’ll be back in GoDaddy green, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet with Tony (Eury) Jr. in my ear again. It all makes my last NASCAR race just that much sweeter.”

Internet web services provider GoDaddy will sponsor both of Patrick’s races in 2018, although a team for the Indianapolis 500 hasn’t been announced. Eury will be atop the pit box as her crew chief in the same role he had with JR Motorsports for parts of three seasons when Patrick ran in the Xfinity Series from 2010-12.

“It wouldn’t be just any opportunity that could coax me back to the pit box, working with Danica and GoDaddy again at Daytona is going to be fun,” Eury said in a statement. “I can tell you, it doesn’t get any better. Danica and I have shared success before in Daytona, and she has a lot more experience under her belt now, so I look forward to seeing what we can achieve during Speedweeks.”

Premium Motorsports has a charter, meaning that Patrick has a guaranteed spot at the first NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series race of the season Feb. 18.

In her rookie season in 2013, she became the first woman to win the Daytona 500 pole. She finished eighth. She also is the first woman to win an IndyCar race.

Although she could run the exhibition Clash on Feb. 11, GoDaddy spokesperson Elizabeth Driscoll confirmed Patrick would not enter that exhibition.

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