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In total, Patrick again ran more than 100 laps for the day, with less than 20 coming in the car Eury Jr. on Saturday called his backup. The primary car covered more than 90 laps, and logged Patrick's best lap of the weekend, 49.443 seconds, an average speed of 182.028 mph, early Sunday afternoon in the draft.
Eury Jr. and his team put a spin on things Sunday morning when Patrick switched her primary allegiance to the car that had been the designated backup for two days. But Eury achieved his goal of finding more single-car speed.
On her 16th lap of Sunday morning in the primered Chevrolet numbered "88A," Patrick hit 49.934 seconds, her best single-car run of the weekend at an average speed of 180.238 mph. On her 22nd and final morning lap in her fully-painted No. 88, its best was in 50.224/179.197.
Her fast lap and the final of the morning in the backup car, which at the time was eighth on the time sheet and once again second-best of the eight women who ran Sunday morning -- as usual behind Alli Owens (49.559/181.602) -- would have been 12th-best in the 2009 race lineup.
Not bad, I guess the phone books do help, plus double cylinder power steering.
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