Mar 09, 2013 11:07 AM EST
Danica Patrick Hit By Rock In Vegas, Driver Says She's Fine After Stray Rock Hit Her Head (VIDEO)

As if getting into a car wreck isn't painful enough. 

NASCAR driver Danica Patrick was hit in the head by a rock in Las Vegas Thursday.

She was spectating a race on a dirt track when a stray rock was apparently kicked by up the cars on track and clonked her on the head.

The rocky revelation came at a press conference Friday. Patrick says she is fine after the accident.

"I feel like I have a concussion from [Thursday] night," she said. "I got hit by a rock at the dirt track and I took it to the ground. I feel like this is really sore. It hit me straight in the head. Good thing I had a hat on or I'm feeling like there would have been blood," she said to media.

She had a brief medical consultation after the rock hit her, but was given a clear bill of health, according to the Associated Press.

Patrick recently had to undergo medical tests after a nasty crash in Phoenix, where the entire side of her car was torn open after a blown-out tire sent her flying into a retaining wall.

Patrick will start deep in the pack Sunday at the Kobalt Tools 400 in Las Vegas. The qualifying event for the race was cancelled because of rain. Because the qualifier was cancelled the starting positions for Sunday's race will be filled by the top 36 teams from last year's race, making last year's winner Brad Keselowski will start in pole position.

"I was just thinking when I walked in, with this being Vegas and all, what the odds would be of a rainout in Vegas," Keselowski said, according to a report by Yahoo! Sports. "I bet that was pretty high. Obviously whenever you can start up front, it's a big deal and you get the first pit stall and all those things that make a big difference on pit road."

 

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