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Tony Stewart doesn’t know whether Danica Patrick plans to switch to NASCAR full time next year, but he says he is interested in possibly signing her for his Stewart-Haas Racing team if she wants to jump to NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series.

Stewart, a two-time Cup champion and former IndyCar champion, has been one of Patrick’s go-to drivers as far as advice with her NASCAR experiment.

The 29-year-old IndyCar Series star, who is in her second year of a part-time Nationwide Series schedule with JR Motorsports, is considering moving to NASCAR full time when her IndyCar contract is up after this season. She said last week that she has made no decision yet about her future.

Stewart hopes she at least talks to him about driving for the Stewart-Haas team he owns.

“Anybody that’s got a Cup team that would have the availability would jump at the chance to do something with her,” Stewart said Wednesday. “Obviously she is a great talent. … I hope we [hear from her]. You would be crazy not to entertain an offer like that and an opportunity for her to drive a race car for you.”

Stewart said he has not talked to Patrick about running a Cup car for SHR in 2012 or beyond, and added that he did not know if his business managers had talked to her representatives. He said SHR does not have plans to add a Nationwide Series team but wants to expand to a three- or four-car Cup operation. Stewart and Ryan Newman currently drive for Stewart’s SHR team. source; http://www.nhms.com/media/news/590151.html