Weather prevented her from turning any laps, but she still debuted her new No. 13 Ed Carpenter Racing machine on Indy’s famed Yard of Bricks.
“This is better for a couple reasons — I’m nervous to get back in the car,” Patrick told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from her parents’ snow-patched backyard in Indianapolis. She explained going outside and letting her dogs run around in the snow was the only place she could find enough quiet space to make a call.
Patrick used her time in Indy to instead reveal the final race car of her career, which she will now first get to drive at a rescheduled May 1-2 test at Indy.