Danica Patrick: Overrated Superstar Will Fail Miserably in Nationwide at Daytona

Danica Patrick will start from the pole in Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series at Daytona, but she won't be there when the checkered flag waves at the end.

The over-hyped, female Tim Tebow of stock car racing has yet to win a race in 25 Nationwide starts over the past two years, and has one top-five and three top-10 finishes to her name.

At last year's Nationwide race at Daytona, Patrick started fourth, only to finish 14th after leading just one lap. She never started better than 7th in the remaining 11 races she participated in and never finished better than fourth.

In her 2010 part-time Nationwide campaign, Patrick notched her best starting spot and finish in the final race of the year at Homestead-Miami, starting fifth and finishing 19th.

Patrick struggles to pick her way through the field in a stock car, and struggles to stay in front in a stock car. After all, she only has one IndyCar win in her seven-year career.

Danica Patrick is simply not ready for the stage of Daytona, or any other track for that matter. She has only 25 stock car races under her belt, and starting from the pole for the first time in her NASCAR career promises to provide us with another inevitable failure.

To her credit, her average finish went from 28th in 2010 to 17th in 2011, but until it happens—a female winning a NASCAR event that is—we will only have the evidence to back up the facts. 

Her first year running a full Sprint Cup season will provide her with a plethora of chances to visit the winner's circle, but the story would be bigger than Jeremy Lin in the Big Apple. 

Daytona is the Mecca of NASCAR and stock car racing in general. For Patrick to win there of all places would be too ridiculous for even a Hollywood script.