25 NASCAR drivers to consider as getaway drivers for that one last heist

Danica Patrick

Danica Patrick may be having a rough 2017 NASCAR season, but she’d make a pretty tough getaway driver. She’s somebody who you’d rather have driving for you than against you, as she’s proven that she’s not afraid to mix it up on the track or to speak her mind off the track.

While Danica has yet to win a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, she does have some considerable accomplishments on her resume. She won the pole for the 2013 Daytona 500 and before that, as a driver in the IndyCar Series, was named both Indy 500 Rookie of the Year and IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year in 2005. She also won an IndyCar race in Japan. So she’s got track cred, even if her NASCAR career hasn’t panned out quite so well as her open-wheel one.

She once played a racing driver suspected of murder in an episode of CSI: NY, so asking her to wheel your getaway car would not be entirely unfamiliar. And you can’t say that Danica isn’t competitive enough to hold her own when the cops start chasing you.

But the biggest plus to having Danica Patrick as your getaway driver is one you might not expect. She’s well known for her healthy lifestyle, so not only would she make sure you escaped your robbery location, but she’d probably make sure there were healthy snacks waiting when you got in the car. If your heist crew needs to be whipped into shape before the big day, Danica’s the driver to call.