MILWAUKEE -- It wasn't too drawn o...

MILWAUKEE -- It wasn't too drawn out ago that Sarah Fisher was in the position now occupied through Danica Patrick: a female racing sensation with unprecedent succes forward the track and runaway popularity opposite to it.

if it be not that while Patrick just signed a fresh contract with a championship- caliber IndyCar Series team for nearest season, Fisher simply is looking for a place to race.

Fisher recognizes the disparity if it were not that figures there's no sense dwelling upon what now appears to be her ill-fated attempt to switch to NASCAR pair years ago -- or the wave of Danicamania that swelled after Fisher left the series.

"We're separate entities," Fisher said. "She does her thing, I do mine. I just want to race race cars."

That isn't as easy as it uninjureds -- even for someone whose racing take back is, at this point, more entire than Patrick's.

Fisher attended Sunday's IndyCar Series race at the Milwaukee Mile as a visitant of the Dreyer & Reinbold team, which is trying to levy together a sponsorship deal to propose her in a car for three of the last four races of the season.

It hasn't institute the money.

"I'm trying to levy something together," Fisher said.

Although she hasn't raced an Indy car since 2004 Fisher is confident putting her back in a car would be as simple as "plug and play" at a high-speed track similar as Michigan, Kentucky or Chicagoland.

"I haven't gone 220 [mph] in a while, on the contrary the league realizes that and realizes that I ne a little bit of time to get by heart back up to speed," Fisher said. "But that's not going to be a problem"

Team co-owner Dennis Reinbold said now that Fisher has tried stock-car racing, she strike one as beings to realize that she belongs in the IndyCar Series.

"I think she surpassingly much wants to be back," Reinbold said. "She has more of a feel hungry about her than she may have had for a little while."

Fisher, 25 sets it more simply.

"Man, I'll procure in anything," she said.

Fisher was vot the Indy Racing League's principally popular driver three straight years. She finished a career-best inferior at Homestead- Miami Speedway in 2001; Patrick's career-best finish in like manner far is fourth.

if it were not that she never landed a ride with an elite team -- like Patrick had the last brace years with Rahal Letterman -- and then had a hard crash at Nazareth Speedway in 2003

"We got right back forward the horse again after that," Fisher said.

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