On or off the track, IndyCar driver Danica Patrick is a magnet for cameras. The 26-year-old has appeared in FHM Magazine and on the covers of TV Guide and ESPN The Magazine's Hot & Cool issue. She's graced the cover of Sports Illustrated (twice) and is featured in a four-page spread in Sports Illustrated's 2008 Swimsuit edition.

Not all the photos are flattering. Photographers were there to capture Danica marching angrily down the track toward Ryan Briscoe's parked car after he inadvertently knocked her out of the Indy 500 in May. They were also there to photograph the confrontation between Danica and another IndyCar Series driver, Milka Duno, at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in July 2008.

Danica looks just as good in motion. Her video credits include an appearance in the Jay-Z video, "Show Me What You Got," as well as three Super Bowl commercials produced for global registrar Go Daddy. The 2008 ad didn't "air" on TV at all because Network censors refused to run it during the game. The Go Daddy commercial that was shown that day drove Danica fans to GoDaddy.com to watch the banned commercial. "Exposure" broke all Go Daddy records for game day, netting the industry leader a total of 2 million site visits.

Voted IndyCar's Most Popular Driver for three years in a row, Danica added her name to the list of history-making women when she won the Indy Japan 300 in April 2008. Less than a month later, her name appeared on another list. Maxim Magazine named her to the annual "Hot 100," calling her "The best thing to blaze up the Indy Racing circuit since ethanol."

The risqué photos, the racy ads -- some complain it all just detracts from the Indy racing star's very real merits as an athlete. She disagrees. "God gave me gifts. Some of them have to do with beauty, some of them have to do with talent," she is quoted as saying in the New York Times. Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit editor, quoted in the same article, agrees, calling Danica "a natural - as good as any model I've ever worked with."

Expect to see more of Danica Patrick in the coming year as Go Daddy continues its sponsorship of her and the Andretti Green Racing Team through 2009.