Danica Patrick might, just might, jump to NASCAR fulltime

With the Busch/Harvick feud fading into the distance, it's time for another overblown NASCAR storyline to take center stage, and here's one: what if Danica Patrick were to jump to NASCAR fulltime?

It's a big leap to get there, of course, but let's just happily speculate away. For starters, she's actually not running all that terribly; she's got a top-5 finish and actually led a lap (yes, "a" lap; you gotta start somewhere) in her four races so far this year. So there's some measure of progress there.

Next, on Thursday she gave a perfect non-answer answer to the question of whether this marks her last Indy 500: "I suppose anything is possible," she said. "But I know for me I haven't made any of those decisions yet."

Later in the press conference, talk returned to the "crossroads of her career," with both NASCAR and open-wheel demanding her attention. She noted that she's learned a few things in her days of jumping series to series: "Hopefully I've gotten more savvy and wise with my personality, my tactics, my antics, as I've had some over the years," she said, laughing. "I guess I came to find out as I grew older that being really honest, emotional all the time, while it is me and I don't regret anything, it makes for work. It makes for work because people talk about it, people have opinions about it. As much as you don't care, they still affect you and you have to deal with the situation."

So, yes, perhaps this is the final Indy 500 of Danica Patrick's career. And perhaps not. NASCAR folks, we'll see her again in a few weeks ... where it all begins again.

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