#E3 NEWS! Random guest start for Sonic Transformed

It seems Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will get an even more random guest that the previous game (Banjo & Kazooie for the Xbox 360 version of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing)....

Sega of America announced the "real life" guest Danica Patrick - a pro Nascar driver - will be racing alongside de likes of Joe Musashi and Vyse.

Since she's pretty much literally unknown in Europe, people are guessing she might be absent from our Pal release of the game...nothing confirmed yet.
Anyway, she'll be joining the roster of the game alongside her own racing car. She's gonna start participating to the game's marketing, starting November 3 with a Sonic themed Nascar.

Danica has posted this tweet recently:

SO excited to be at ‪#E3‬ for @sega and sonic the hedgehog! Come say hi at the ‪#segae3‬booth! ‪#sonicracingtransformed‬

Nobody saw this coming, heh? :P
So I guess this means we can get "real" characters...like Segata Sanshiro perhaps...?

Does this mean she'll represent SEGA ip Daytona USA in-game?