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Patrick announced her retirement following the
2017 NASCAR season after being replaced by the Stewart-Haas
Racing team. However, Patrick said she would ideally walk away
from competitive racing after competing in this year's marquee
NASCAR and Indy events.
Patrick raced in IndyCar from 2005-11 and spent the past eight
years in the NASCAR Series.
"It's taking longer than I'd like it to take, I'll be really
honest with you," Patrick said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on
Thursday, per USA Today. "I thought it was going to be a quicker
process, but you know, you can't rush things. I'm a big believer
- more and more all the time - of letting things flow and just
letting things take shape in the way that they would, and that's
kind of why I ended where I ended with finishing up (my)
full-time career last year and doing the Daytona 500 and Indy
500 for this year. I was just like, I didn't push anything, and
I just let things flow, and it turned out to be just perfect.
Honestly, I'm excited and just so grateful. ...
"So similarly with the teams I'm going to race for - or the team
- in NASCAR and in IndyCar, I'm pushing politely, but you can't
make things happen before they're ready to happen. So I kind of
thought it would get more simple. There's less people involved,
less sponsors, less things. Well, it's still complicated. It's
still complicated. So it's just taking a little bit of time, but
we'll hopefully have something to announce soon enough."
The Daytona 500 is in February and the Indy 500 in May.
--Field Level Media
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