With Press Pass closing up shop and the NASCAR license sitting in limbo currently there haven't been any new NASCAR cards printed for a while. There's older stuff available, but as the supply dwindles a lot of it is overpriced and/or stuff I've already seen a thousand times. I still pick up a card here and there, though, when something catches my eye at the right price. That's how I got this Cyan parallel of Danica Patrick from the 2014 Press Pass set. It's relatively low-numbered, being serially-numbered # 04 / 35.
I actually caught the tail-end of last week's CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega. I was pulling for Dale Earnhardt Jr. to get the race won, but they couldn't get a clean restart there at the finish and he was eliminated from the Chase. Tough luck, but he handled it well in the post-race interviews and came off as a class act which is more than you can say for a lot of drivers.
Danica Patrick finished in 27th place. She was running a bit higher than that for most of the portion that I watched, but it looked like she got hung up in all the back-of-the-pack contact that was going on and lost a lot of ground at the end. Her finishes lately haven't been very good. I think she still pulls in a lot of viewers but I wonder how long she'll be able to hang around if she doesn't come out in 2016 and post some better numbers? Hopefully she'll get things figured out a bit more and make a jump to an average finish inside the top 20. I 'need' to get a couple of her 2015 die-cast soon, probably one in the regular paint scheme and one in her pink paint scheme. She's switching to a new primary sponsor next year, so there will be new cars to collect then. Hopefully there will be new trading cards then, too.
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