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Danica Patrick reunites with GoDaddy for Daytona and Indy 500

Danica Patrick has reunited with long-time sponsor GoDaddy for her planned swansong races in NASCAR's Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500

Patrick's final year in NASCAR was blighted by sponsorship issues that led to her announcing her retirement from full-time racing at the 2017 season finale at Homestead.

She was known to be in discussions with Chip Ganassi over racing for his team in her farewell programme, but nothing came to fruition.

Though Patrick admitted putting together a deal to race was taking longer than expected, the returning sponsor should help her make progress.

GoDaddy backed Patrick in IndyCar from 2006 and through her transition into stock car racing, before pulling out of motorsport sponsorship at the end of the 2015 Cup season.

"This is definitely the way I want to finish my racing career - at these two iconic races, backed by my iconic, long-time sponsor," Patrick said.

"GoDaddy was there for me when my career was just really starting so it's exciting to be getting back in the GoDaddy green for my final two races.

"Our brands have always been powerful together, and I think it's awesome to have them at my side when I go all in with my businesses after racing.

"I don't think I could have written a better ending to my racing career - driving my last laps on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...although winning it with GoDaddy would obviously be the icing on the cake."

No details were released about a prospective deal with any IndyCar or NASCAR team, although Patrick says an annoucement is getting closer.

"First and foremost, GoDaddy is such an appropriate fit, a great fit,'' Patrick told the NASCAR Wire Service.

"It's so exciting as we have so much history together but also because I feel like people were starting to wonder what was going on. And there were some points in time where I was a little frustrated too, but it's nice to be able to announce something.''

"We are getting close on that stuff and we need to be, right?'' Patrick said. "We're on track in the next couple weeks.''

"So that (announcement) will be coming up soon.''

Schmidt Peterson co-owner Sam Schmidt recently told Autosport he feared the attention around Patrick's swansong races would be "too much of a distraction with all the fanfare".

But he was confident Patrick would be competitive wherever she ended up.

"I think she'll do an excellent job, she'll float back in where she was before but it's all the stuff that comes up with it," Schmidt added.

Patrick's deal with GoDaddy is also with a view to a business partnership outside of NASCAR, which she has openly said will be the next stage of her career in the past.

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