Photo gallery: A look at Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s 2009 NASCAR season
Members of the Hendrick Motorsports crew of Dale Earnhardt Jr. salute their driver before the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November. // Mark Sluder, NASCAR Scene
Hendrick Motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. endured a difficult season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2009.
Earnhardt Jr. went winless in his second season with Hendrick and failed to make the Chase For The Sprint Cup. And early in the year, cousin Tony Eury Jr. moved from his job as Earnhardt Jr.’s crew chief and was replaced by Lance McGrew.
Still, Earnhardt Jr. remained the most popular driver in the sport, as witnessed by his seventh consecutive NASCAR NMPA Chex Most Popular Driver Award.
A look at Earnhardt Jr.’s season through photographs by the NASCAR Scene staff:
Photo gallery: A look at Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s 2009 NASCAR season
