Danica starts 3rd. on the pole at the Bombardier 500 at Texas Motor Speedway

Most of the attention has been on Danica Patrick since her showing at INDY.
At Texas on Saturday night, Patrick will start ahead of INDY winner Dan Wheldon and all but two other drivers. Her qualifying lap of 212.661 mph was good for third, a spot better than her Indianapolis start.

Patrick had never driven a lap on the 1-mile Texas track before practice thursday yet qualified better than her teammates Vitor Meira and Buddy Rice.

The only drivers starting ahead of her are Tomas Scheckter and rookie Tomas Enge. Ironically the 2 Panther teammates whose Chevy's were both knocked out of the INDY race because of Patrick.