Danica Patrick’s comes to Fontana Saturday. Catch Danica Patrick’s Fontana Stater Bros. 300 start in Saturday’s Nationwide NASCAR series.

On Sunday, Patrick posted to Twitter “Vday dinner in the making while still watching the 500!”

The reaction on twitpit was to be expected: “Wish I was eating with you!! “

On Monday, Patrick twittered “…at home with a desk full of mail and lots of calls to make. Being on the road is easier sometimes!”

The next Nationwide series run after Fontana is Las Vegas, and then Bristol over the next three weeks. Patrick had told press before last weekend: “My goal purely is to finish. Just to finish the race and log 300 miles in practice.”

“It’s nice to go up the speed chart. They told me not to look at the speed chart [Wednesday] when I was 26th, because it doesn’t really matter. I’m not going to look at it [Thursday] when I’m fifth, because it doesn’t really matter.”

“This is a whole another ball of wax this weekend,” she said. “This car is not as easy to drive, there are a lot of really great drivers out there, really great teams out there, and everybody is running close. Everybody wants to make that next step up to Cup. So this is a very different situation for me.”

Danica Patrick’s NASCAR crash at the 2010 Daytona NATIONWIDE series Saturday was exactly what Patrick said she didn’t want to happen.

Patrick told press this week that placing wasn’t her goal. Rather she said her goal was just to finish and not crash.

Instead she got caught up in a 12-car accident. Cars ahead of her went into a pile up. Patrick tried to avoid and ended up smashing into the wall. Danica was running 21st at the time.