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Danica Patrick, Ricky Stenhouse are dating, but they will be Sprint Cup competitors
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DAYTONA BEACH - Danica Patrick slid into her chair at NASCAR media day Thursday and promptly informed her audience it would be race questions only.
Yeah, right. The ensuing 20-plus minutes consisted mostly of questions about her relationship with fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and Patrick dutifully answered them all. She and Stenhouse better get used to this, at least in the early going.
Patrick and Stenhouse confirmed in January they are dating, and the duo will be competing against each other this year for Sprint Cup rookie of the year.
"Initially, it was a little bit of a mental hurdle of like, 'We compete against each other,'?" Patrick said of the relationship, which she likened to Romeo and Juliet. "It's like the Capulets and Montagues with [me in] Chevy and [him in] Ford, this just doesn't work. But you can't tell your heart who to like or not like. And so in the end, it ended up being something that I just didn't think was a big deal at all."
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The two spent the last two seasons racing in the Nationwide Series and Patrick leaned on Stenhouse, the two-time Nationwide champion, for friendship and advice
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NASCAR's Danica Patrick and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Split After Nearly Five Years
NASCAR’s power couple has called it quits, PEOPLE confirms.
Danica Patrick and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. have ended their romance nearly five years after they began dating ahead of their NASCAR Cup Series rookie seasons in 2013, a rep for Patrick confirms to PEOPLE.
A spokeswoman for Patrick confirmed on Monday that the athletes are “no longer in a relationship.”
Neither Patrick, 35, nor Stenhouse Jr., 30, have publicly commented on the split. Stenhouse Jr. made the NASCAR playoffs for the first time in 2017 and is expected to race for Roush Fenway Racing next season, ESPN reports.
Breakup rumors began circulating after Stenhouse Jr. showed up at NASCAR’s annual awards last month without Patrick, according to the Charlotte Observer.
In a recent documentary, Patrick revealed that she has frozen eggs in order to have children one day, ESPN reports. However, she said she wants to be married before having children. She was previously married to Paul Hospenthal for seven years.
News of the split comes about a month after Patrick announced her retirement.
She revealed then that she would not return to NASCAR as a full-time driver next season, but would compete in the 2018 Daytona 500