Well, Danica's move up from 28th place to 27th in the points last week when her main squeeze didn't make the race didn't last long...
After spending most of the race riding around in the back half of the lead lap (so many times the yellow came out to save her from going a lap down), she suffered some damage in the big wreck when Keselowski had a mechanical failure and his car couldn't get out of the way of the pack.
Now, several drivers had problems yesterday and needed to go to the garage for repairs and then returned to the track several laps down. That's what "racers" do. Keselowski came back out 28 laps down. Likewise for Harvick, Johnson and Kahne (and I'm sure several others) - as all of them spent several laps in the garage for repairs.
The Touring Princess was able to drive her car off the track with what appeared to be just some relatively minor damage to the right front end. She never returned and finished 34th.
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