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Dale Earnhardt Jr. pleased with direction of Hendrick Motorsports team
By SceneDaily Staff
Friday, July 03, 2009
Hendrick Motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 19th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings after 17 races this season.
David Griffin
NASCAR Scene
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dale Earnhardt Jr. isn’t ready to proclaim that his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports team has suddenly found the missing link after recent improvements following a crew-chief swap.
However, NASCAR’s most popular driver does believe that the group is on the upswing heading into Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway. And he hopes the team, which has posted three top-15s since Lance McGrew replaced Tony Eury Jr. as crew chief five races ago, can build confidence for 2010.
“Making the Chase [For The Sprint Cup] is a goal, but at the end of the year when you’re done racing at Homestead and you run the last lap and you get out of the car, what kind of feeling do you want to have?” Earnhardt Jr. said Friday at DIS. “The one I want to have is that we’ve fixed it, that we’ve got something we can feel good about and work on and get all our stuff ready for next year and feel like we can go in and get the job done. Right now, that’s not how we feel as a team.
“We’ve got a little bit more to go, we’ve got to get a little bit better so at the end of the year we want to feel like we are. We want to have some wins, we want to have some consistency and at the end of the year [be] going, ‘All right, we can’t wait till next year; it’s going to be a good deal.’”
Sitting 19th in the standings, Earnhardt Jr. all be ruled out a rally into Chase contention over the last nine races of NASCAR’s regular season. To be eligible for the final 10-race championship-determining segment, Earnhardt Jr. would need to leapfrog seven drivers to move into 12th, the last available Chase spot.
“We have quite a ways to go to be able to make the Chase,” he said. “It’s going to be a real challenge for us to make the Chase. We’re still mathematically in it, but we’re not trying to catch just one guy that we’re 200 and some points behind, we’re trying to catch four or five guys, and it’s unrealistic to expect all them guys to have enough trouble and for us to top-10 them to death.
“So we’ve got to run better, and even though we have improved, it seems, we still need to obviously get better to be able to compete. Being able to drive up into the top three last week [at New Hampshire] was a lot of fun, but we need to be able to stay there once we get there.”
Earnhardt Jr. seems overall fairly pleased with the relationship between he and McGrew, the interim crew chief who replaced Eury after a 40th-place finish at Charlotte in May.
“I’ve been more comfortable in the car,” said Earnhardt Jr., who has just one top-five and three top-10s in 17 races in 2009. “I’ve liked what I’ve felt from in the race cars over the last couple weeks and Lance and I seem to communicate well. He’s very excited and we are able to kind of root each other on throughout the race, it seems, and the team has got a great attitude and it seems to get better with each run that we seem to show a little more promise. We’re working. Everybody is really working so hard.
“I remember in 2004, even as recently as last year, I don’t remember working this hard and running better than we’re running now. Once we get back to where we want to be, we will appreciate that much more than we probably did in the past.”
Earnhardt Jr., who hasn’t won a race since Michigan in June 2008, says NASCAR’s new car has made it more difficult to recover after falling behind on setups and overall preparation.
“You used to be able to rebound in a week or two, but if you get behind in this sport now, there’s a chance you may not be able to recover for some time,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “It definitely has been a trying time, and it was really hard and our team was really, really low, but just knowing where we were and how I felt two months ago to now, I can definitely say it’s a big difference for us.
“There’s no one person or one thing that really deserves credit. We just made a couple changes and everything seems to be moving in the right direction, so we’ll just try to keep it up.”
Mentioned Drivers: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2009 Sprint Cup Race for the Chase Standings
Driver Standings after the AMP Energy 500
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| 8 | Ryan Newman | -402 |
| 9 | Kasey Kahne | -414 |
| 10 | Carl Edwards | -437 |
| 11 | Denny Hamlin | -448 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -556 |
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dale-jr-is-the-greatest-driver-alive said:
Jul 3, 2009 at 5:46 PMhellz yes junior you got this you and the 88 crew have been doing real good and are almost their.
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Jul 3, 2009 at 6:48 PMHonest answers from a man who has integrity. No blaming anyone, positive attitude, and a desire to improve, which we all know he can do.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportgwen_susie388 said:
Jul 3, 2009 at 9:55 PMDo you see the smile on that guy's face and the gleam in his eyes up there at the top of the article? That's Dale, Jr. for you! He had that same smile and same gleam when they interviewed him after the crash he was caught up in! I hate it for Kerry, it really scared me about how slow he was getting out of that burning car. He had a smile on his face as well when they interviewed him. I am glad he was okay!! I know Dale, Jr. wanted to win in his own car......but oh well! Racin is racin!!! I am looking forward to tomorrow! I am very exited for Dale, Jr. And what about that Brad? Is he awesome or what? You can't keep a good man down!! GO JR. GO....I will be watching you on the 4th of July!!!! Take it to the limit one more time!!!! WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportbuckshot88 said:
Jul 3, 2009 at 10:41 PMjr's heading in the right direction,finish up strong this year and come back and get "r" done in 2010!
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» Confirm Abuse Report4-DA-88 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 1:47 AMBig difference between that picture and what we were seeing just a few weeks ago. It is so good to see him smiling again. Hope he gets a good drafting partner. Gwen make it loud enough I can hear ya! Hope Jr had a talk with Brad and let him know who he is 'suppose' to push to the front. lol .. Oh come on people I kid. I meant who he is suppose to 'not' push to the front. ; -) Everyone have a good and safe 4th of July!!!
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Jul 4, 2009 at 7:21 AMtrue to bad i didnt get t see the end of the race lol #5 what did brad do
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Jul 4, 2009 at 7:30 AMI know 4-da-88..It's so good to see him smile and he doesn't look stressed like he was looking. On T.V. his eyes really were gleaming. You can tell a lot about a person from looking in their eyes! Eyes are the windows to the soul! I wanted that win for Dale,Jr last night but he had a good night for the most part. He said he had fun. So that's good! It's going to be hard for Dale to find someone to draft with him. No one want's to draft with one of the best for some reason! I've seen him get behind KB and push him and many others. But when he pulls out a lot of times, no one will go with him. lol Yes I heard about that talk to, only Brad said, "I think you got that backwards, Boss. LOL
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale-jr-is-the-greatest-driver-alive said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 9:07 AMwhat happened to junior in the pits ?????????????
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» Confirm Abuse Reportgwen_susie388 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 9:43 AMI answered you on the other Earnhardt article. lol. You asked the same question on both articles..Go to the other one. :-)
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» Confirm Abuse Reportsweetthings88 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 10:07 AMLooking good in that picture above. You got that right Gwen that twinkle and smile. You know Dale Jr. is happy. If he gets a good drafting partner watch Dale Jr. go to the front. And watch the growd go nuts when he takes the lead. YAHOOOOOOOOOOOO. Keep up the good work Dale Jr. and team. Good luck Dale Jr and team #88 in tonights race. Love Ya. Will Always be a Dale Jr. fan.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportCarol-88-fan said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 11:44 AMLove that smile. SS3CHEVELLE, you are right about him. That's why so many of us love him and will always support him.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportCarol-88-fan said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 11:47 AMSS396CHEVELLE,Sorry I didn't get your name complete.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdslund said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 1:47 PMThumbs up to you and all the team your coming ahead as the weeks go by and its nice to watch ..Kudos to you and team 88 Jr. ..That is why your fans love you you just keep digging in and working to get the job done ..
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdiamond56 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 4:01 PMJr. knows what he needs to do to win a race. He's an Earnhardt, he's got the blood of his grand-father and father running thru his veins. Get in that car, pull those straps tight, as Larry Mc says and do what an Earnhardt does best: WIN!!!!
Report as AbuseYou can do it, just don't beat yourself.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportbthompson133 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 4:34 PMi hear the kb fans coming,booooooooo
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Jul 4, 2009 at 4:55 PMIt's good to see a smile on his face again. I haven't seen one like that in a long time. Good luck tonight, Junior! I'm rooting for ya!
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» Confirm Abuse Report4-DA-88 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 8:50 PMDang it all!! Man he was looking awesome. Moving up w/o the benefit of the draft.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 8:52 PMbthompson133, it is comments like yours that prompts people to make negative comments about your driver. There weren't any negative comments until yours. Cause and effect? Yep.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 8:54 PMGwen, unfortunately the article writers can slant their article simply based on which photo they select to accompany their piece. I imagine there have been a number of other pictures of Jr. smiling in the past (granted things have been difficult this year, so probably fewer smiling pics) they just chose not to use them as such a picture doesn't go with the tone of the article.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM4-DA-88, actually he had been falling back a little bit in the laps just before the accident that took him out (Reality Check).
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» Confirm Abuse Report4-DA-88 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 9:07 PMHe was fluctuating between 17 - 13. Until that moment he was picking them off 1 by 1. No need for reality check here. I know what I was seeing.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportgwen_susie388 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 9:28 PMDale. Don't treat me like I am an idiot. I didn't just fall off of a turnip truck. I know how writers choose their pictures! On T.V. (LIVE) Earnhardt has been smiling a lot, and looking a whole lot better.
Report as AbuseTrue, Earnhardt had fell back, but did you know he picked up 6 spots from the time the ticker went around and came back. He was in 15th and coming on when that wreck occured. My husband thought he had got up to 13th, but I know 15th for sure! You can bank on it! I had the live leaderboard on too and he was running as fast as the leaders. He was even faster on a lap or two than the leaders. (Reality check) Jr. is out of the race now so go ahead and celebrate! He is still my driver! On to the next race now! Dale, Jr. is the best!!!!:-)
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» Confirm Abuse Report4-DA-88 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 10:14 PMThank you Gwen. Glad I was not the only one. They had finally gotten his car where he liked it. If he would NOW stop with the bad luck we might even get a win before the end of season.......
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Jul 4, 2009 at 10:15 PMWoohooo TONY...You don't mess with Tony! Not the best job of blocking #18. Hell yes he deserved that!!!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportgwen_susie388 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 10:40 PM4-DA-88. I sure didn't want any one to get hurt in that. But KB blocked Tony twice and Tony said he just went where he had too. KB got hit three times. That was bad! Hopefully KB may have learned a lesson from all of it! Tony Stewart was all shook up from the sound of his voice. But he said he didn't think he did anything wrong. Just hard racing at the end and KB came back up on Tony and he did what he had to do! I won't lie... I am glad Tony won! The commentator's even said Kyle shouldn't have blocked TS twice. I think KB got knocked over the finish line?????? Not sure.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportCarol-88-fan said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 10:40 PMDoes anyone know why the caution was thrown right after Kyle was complaining on his radio? I didn't see anything or hear the guys on tv explain. Good racing Tony. Kyle did it to himself.I saw the same thing on the leaderboard that Gwen and 4-DA-88 saw. Jr said they had just made the car good and he was starting to pick them off one at a time. Jr will always be my driver.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportbthompson133 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 10:47 PMhey dale the idiot , my comment wasn't putting jr down ,just making a funny . you have no clue who my driver is. you're one of the idiots that give jr nation a bad rep. the jr in jr nation must mean JUST REDICULOUS! if you would stop your negative posts maybe fans would see jr nation in a much better way!!!!btw he's driven a chevy
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» Confirm Abuse Reportgwen_susie388 said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 10:47 PMI wondered that to Carol-88-FAN... KB said he needed a caution and immediately there was one and I never did hear them say what it was for. You are right, KB did that to himself. It's about time someone put KB in his place, but I am still glad no one was hurt!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 11:32 PMGwen, I wasn't treating you like an idiot. I was only pointing out that the writers can slant the article based on the photo. If anything I was supporting Jr., not putting him down. Maybe you need to back off a bit. You take everything like an attack on you.
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Jul 4, 2009 at 11:33 PM4-DA-88, he had fallen back to 24th around the time of the accident.
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Jul 4, 2009 at 11:36 PMbthompson133, funny, you are the idiot here. You are the one that made a negative comment about a driver not mentioned in the article. As to me giving Jr. Nation a bad name, you don't know how funny that is. I am not now, nor will I ever be a member of that group of lemmings. That you would even suggest that I am a member of that lame group it shows how little you know. The Jr. Lemmings always complain about people coming to the Jr. articles and putting him down, yet many of them constantly make rude comments about other drivers - on those same articles.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale said:
Jul 4, 2009 at 11:38 PMHey Gwen, just curious, do you also hope the Carl Edwards "learned something" after he blocked Brad back a few weeks ago? Or is the hope for lessons learned only for Kyle? (legitimate question as I do not recall you making similar statements about Carl).
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» Confirm Abuse ReportKenL88 said:
Jul 5, 2009 at 12:32 AMDale had two good cars this weekend wrong place wrong time. #31 Jr. Lemmings wow that's powerfull. Jr. fans our loyal to him there is a reason one you don't know. If you really know the driver than you would know why is has loyal fan. Yes fans ones that don't desert him when the going gets ruff. Do they stick up for him I guess you know that answer since your always on here commenting on his fan base.
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Jul 5, 2009 at 12:40 AMKen, the problem I have with the Lemmings (and no, I don't consider all Jr. fans lemmings, only the blind, rabid ones) is that they blame everyone else for everything that happens to Jr. I have stated many times before I think Jr. is a decent driver. I don't attack him, unlike many Jr. lemmings that constantly attack other drivers. It is those so-called fans that give the sport a bad name. I was attacked on this article simply for pointing out that the authors of the articles can slant the tone simply by the picture they choose. That was not a negative comment, in fact I said there were probably a number of pictures of Jr. smiling this year, the authors chose not to use them. For that, I get attacked. That is unfortunately typical of the Jr. Lemmings. The ones that take any comment other that "oh boy Jr. is great" as a slam. It shows many of them lack the skills to comprehend what someone else says. No driver is perfect. To constantly claim any particular drive is without shortcomings shows they do not have a grasp of reality.
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Jul 5, 2009 at 12:44 AMKen, btw, how many "fans" know any of the drivers personally? Very few. Fans mostly know what the media presents and what the PR people release. At no point have I ever said Jr. is a bad person. I have commented on mistakes he has made (e.g. pit road mishaps). Contrast that with the rude comments many (again, not all, many) Jr. "fans" have made about other drivers.
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Jul 5, 2009 at 12:57 AMhey dummy dale, i never made a comment about any driver. you attacked me because apparently you can't read or comprehend english. you should learn to attack when you actually have a chance at looking intelligent! GOOD LUCK ON THAT!!!!!!!!
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Jul 5, 2009 at 5:07 AMDale Dale Dale, You must be blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. I went back and looked. Junior dropped to 24th on lap 57 and back up to 22nd just before caution came out for Hornish. He came back out in 29th on restart on lap 62. Lap 70 he had worked his way to 17th. On lap 76 he took 13th from Reutimann. That is the last I see on the crawl. Jr 13th, Reutimann 14th, Stremme 15th. The wreck was on lap 77, I looked at 76 to 77 in slow motion and JR just lost 13th and 14th back to Reuti and Stremme. And dearie Ms Gwen was dead on, he was in the 15th spot at the time of the wreck.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportgwen_susie388 said:
Jul 5, 2009 at 11:11 AMDale, oh where to start? Thank you 4-Da-88. You attacked Bthompson133 first. Your next post was to me. I have no idea why you would even bring up the picture thing. What got me was your next post to 4-da-88 with the reality check thing, and the wrong information as well. I know 4-da-88 can take up for herself as you well see she does. I just have to wonder why you go through posts and pull people out. It's because you like someone to set you straight. BTW when did I put a driver down? Are you confusing an opinion and putting a driver down the same thing? Not the same! I see you are back to the lemming word again. You called me one. Prove it! I call it as I see it as my own opinion. Oh you have asked me so many question's, just wondering why you are so curious? I voiced my opinion about Carl, but it had nothing to do with Brad. It was a racing incident. Sorry you missed it! Not going to repeat it! I am sorry I took what you said about the picture thing the wrong way. I am not use to you being nice to me. :-)
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» Confirm Abuse Reportjessydoyle49 said:
Jul 5, 2009 at 2:28 PMSmiling like a silly person waiting for a ride back to the home. Your headed in the RIGHT DIRECTION though...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportKenL88 said:
Jul 5, 2009 at 4:15 PMNo driver is perfect you are right about that but Jr. gets more than critized for every mistake he makes.He is a man that makes errors just like anyone else be man or women. As I said and did not mean you have to know him personally anyone having a knowledge of this sport and his magitude of fans yes some go over the edge I think the reason being he like no other driver acknowledge his fans interacts with them on his web sites. Which I'm sure some driver do that also but not to the level that he does. He lets them into his life to a point now that his own personal life has to be limited to where he can go. So he sacrifices alot for his popularity. Hence his fans know this and respond at a high level of protectiveness for him.
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Jul 5, 2009 at 9:37 PMKEN88, well said.
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Jul 6, 2009 at 12:51 PMGwen, you are a bit confused. bthompson133 first made a typical lemming comment by making a reference to another driver. The same type of comment that Jr. lemmings always complain about. It gets tiring to have the lemmings try playing both sides of the fence all the time. They can dish it out but can't take it. As the photo post, maybe you should try reading the posts before automatically assuming someone is attacking just because of who is writing the post. I also explained my definition of lemmings in regards to Jr. fans. If you fit that definition then I would consider you a lemming, if you do not, then you don't qualify. I could be wrong but I don't believe I have ever called you one of the lemmings. Maybe like the post above you mis-interpreted another one of my posts or took something personally that wasn't addressed to you. As to Jr. being in 24th position, I am going by the last mention of his position made by the announcers just prior to the accident. I am not as concerned where he is on a lap by lap basis as others may be. Unlike some others (I am not calling you out on this), I don't assume people are lying when they make a comment. They may be mistaken or they may simply be going by the information they have available or they might be expressing an opinion. Something many Jr. "fans" can't handle if the opinion is contrary to theirs.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale said:
Jul 6, 2009 at 12:58 PMKenL88, I agree with you on your post above. The rest of this is not specifically for you, just my thoughts on the topic. It is one thing to be a fan, it is another to have blind allegiance to a driver. There is nothing wrong to realize the drivers are only human and make mistakes. I think Jr. gets criticized a bit more in some cases as many fans make excuses for any mistake he might make. It is always someone else's fault. It is good to support your driver in good times and bad, I suggest just being realistic about the abilities of the driver. Granted some drivers have more innate abilities than others, some really need great equipment to to achieve decent results (Casey Mears for example).
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» Confirm Abuse Report88Lemming said:
Jul 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM#42 you contradict yourself so much it is not even funny! Nice to see you finally admit you don't know what you are talking about!
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