GoDaddy to sponsor ‘Danica Double’
Danica Patrick is going back to green.
GoDaddy Green, to be exact — a fitting color for her farewell tour.
The company will sponsor Patrick in the upcoming “Danica Double” that will close out her racing career, the Associated Press has learned. Patrick has no ride yet for next month’s Daytona 500 or the Indianapolis 500 in May, but she now has the financial backing to pull it off.
This time around, the original GoDaddy Girl will symbolize the new core mission of the company that helped make her one of the world’s most recognizable athletes.
Patrick’s final race will be the Indy 500, an appropriate choice because it was “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” that rocketed Patrick and GoDaddy into pop culture notoriety.
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