(Patrick's ARCA début scored record television ratings, nearly doubling the previous year's viewership).
A week after her ARCA race, Patrick was back at Daytona for her first NASCAR event, the Saturday undercard for Sunday's Daytona 500.
George dedicated the victory to the memory of Drew Hawkins, a friend who helped him pursue his career when he moved to Charlotte, N.C. George picked up a new sponsor, then moved on to Michigan International Speedway, where he finished third in an ARCA race Friday.
He won his first ARCA race in 50 tries at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., on June 11.
Starting in the sixth row alongside Frank Kimmel, a nine-time ARCA champion, Patrick ran as high as fifth before her spinout.
July 31 should be an interesting day, because he plans to drive in an ARCA race and a truck race at Pocono, where it all started 15 years ago.
The cameras have chronicled Patrick's every move in her first week in stock cars, beginning with her initiation last Saturday when she ran an ARCA race here.
Patrick is waiting to decide whether to race in the Nationwide Series opener at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 13; the team said it would decide who will enter that race after Patrick makes her stock car debut in the Feb. 6 ARCA race.
Danica Patrick, the full-time Indy Car driver who is looking to break into stock car racing, drove in an ARCA race in February at Daytona International Speedway to get acclimated to stock cars.
The Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) has ordered a post-mortem from the New York Stock Exchange's Arca division, which electronically trades non-NYSE stocks and where the problems tied to the NASDAQ outage began.
The system was overwhelmed while trying to reconnect with Arca, triggering a "code blue" alert (a term used in hospital emergencies) and the cessation of trading.Oddly, nowhere near as much attention is being applied to Goldman, which has been secretive about what went wrong.
