DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (February 5, 2010) - The starting field for Saturday's Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards race is set following Friday's qualifying session at Daytona International Speedway. Defending race winner James Buescher will lead off Saturday's 43-car starting field after earning the Menards Pole Award presented by Ansell with a 49.575 second/181.543 mph lap around the 2.5 mile speedway.

Danica Patrick, making her stock car debut in Saturday's ARCA Racing Series race, qualified 12th with a 50.059 second/179.788 mph lap, posting the exact same time as Indiantown, Florida's Patrick Sheltra. Sheltra starts ahead of Patrick in the race based on 2009 car owner points.

"She's just another driver in the field and that's how you have to look at it," polesitter Buescher told members of the media on Friday afternoon when asked about racing alongside Danica Patrick during her stock car debut. "Hopefully everyone in our race stays smart and no one over drives while trying to impress the large audience we have for this race. They showed us a crash video during the driver's meeting yesterday and it got our attention. I think there were 3 or 4 wrecks ahead of me in this race last year that I was able to avoid so hopefully my heart won't skip too many beats this year.

"I knew the car was going to be fast because we were fast yesterday. I wasn't sure how the wind changing around was going to affect everyone else. You could definitely feel the wind blowing.  We don't want to mess the car up so we're not going to participate in happy hour. I've actually never done the happy hour practice in any speedway race. They tend to wreck a couple of cars in that practice and I don't want to risk it."

Buescher, the defending race winner, is competing in the same chassis he won last year's Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 in.