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Is this Danica's year? She's not the favorite, but don't bet against it

By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

Saturday, May 24, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS -- Danica Patrick isn't the favorite to win the Indy 500 Sunday (noon, ABC), not in the betting odds, anyway. But Patrick can win this race. She knows it and the other drivers know it. It won't take a bizarre fluke for the reigning queen of open-wheel racing to drink some milk in Victory Lane. In fact, her chances of winning this time are better than any woman has ever had at Indy. OK, that's not saying much. Other than Patrick, no woman has ever sat on the starting grid at t ...

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