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Posted: Jul 4th 2009 2:41 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Carl Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona Int'l Speedway, Chase for the Sprint Cup

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --
Catching up on the news and notes trackside at Daytona International Speedway.Dale Earnhardt Jr. met with reporters briefly Friday and seemed pretty much resigned to the fact that he won't be making the 12-driver Chase for the Championship this season. He's currently ranked 19th, 285 points behind 12th place Juan Pablo Montoya with nine races remaining before the Chase field is set Sept. 12.
"It's going to be a real challenge for us to make the Chase,'' Earnhardt said. "We're still mathematically in it but we're not trying to catch just one guy. .. we're trying to catch four or five guys. And it's unrealistic to expect all them guys to have enough trouble.
Posted: Jul 3rd 2009 6:47 AM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Sprint Cup
Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 at Daytona will mark the official midway point of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Naturally, it's a great time to review what we've seen so far from the Cup boys, their teams, the series and the tracks. First, we'll start with the not-so-hot performers:
Motorsports FanHouse Grade: FDale Earnhardt Jr. - It's been easy to see why the season for driver No. 88 has earned a failing grade. He's been slowly -- very slowly -- improving of late, but still has no chance for the Chase in 2009 and has one track left with a great chance to win at --
Daytona.
Posted: Jun 12th 2009 7:07 PM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch, Sprint Cup

A year removed from
Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s last victory and a week removed from
Kyle Busch's controversial guitar smash, the latter couldn't help but sway the conversation back to the driver who has become his primary off-track target.
And this time, Busch not only went after the commander of the No. 88 ship, but Earnhardt Jr.'s army of fans, too.
"I got no issues with Junior; it's his fans that are crazy," said Busch.
Posted: Jun 5th 2009 4:32 PM ET by David Whitley (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hendrick Motorsports

There's been a lot of hubbub recently over
Dale Earnhardt Jr. becoming the Frank Sinatra Jr. of
NASCAR. However you feel, everybody should agree on one thing.
Thank goodness the Junior Nation wasn't running the show back in 1776. If it had we'd all have British accents and be curtsying before royalty.
Posted: May 15th 2009 8:32 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Sprint Cup
Mark Martin was worried about taking an anti-inflammatory pill so the 50-year old veteran driver called up the head of NASCAR's new drug testing program to see if he could take an Advil without violating policy.
Greg Biffle was concerned enough about taking a simple over-the-counter pain medicine to help with an injury, he just opted to tough it out.
We still don't know what Sprint Cup driver
Jeremy Mayfield tested positive for two weeks ago, resulting in him becoming the first Cup driver indefinitely suspended under a new random drug testing policy. And it has prompted many drivers to publicly ask for a definitive list of can-dos and should-nots.
Posted: Apr 28th 2009 5:01 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR Crashes, Sprint Cup
Dale Earnhardt Jr. sees it quite simply. It's a numbers game.
The way to decrease the likelihood of a car going airborne into the grandstand fencing is to make the restrictor plates smaller (more restrictive), not to get rid of them. Not to change the track. Not to force fans to sit 50 rows back.
And not to overreact or sensationalize.
Posted: Apr 26th 2009 6:33 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Carl Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR Crashes, Sprint Cup

TALLADEGA, Ala. -- It wasn't Junior but his junior,
Brad Keselowski, who seemingly came out of no where to survive a wreck-filled, spectacular last-lap crash and win his first ever NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.
Keselowski, who drives full time for
Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the triple-A Nationwide Series, was behind
Carl Edwards about 100 yards from the checkered flag. As Edwards tried to block Keselowski's final push to win, the cars collided, launching Edwards' Ford airborne, which flipped wildly in the air. His car bounced off the hood of
Ryan Newman's car and then rolled, roof up, hard into the catch fence along the front grandstand.