Dale Jr. Quotes
“It’s a very flat track where you can’t run side-by-side all the way around, so it makes passing difficult. We had the restrictor plates there last time, and we won’t this year, plus they put some sealer on the track surface, so there are a lot of unknowns. I do know that we had a good run in each of the races there last year but we didn’t have the finishes to show for it. In the fall race, we were set for a very strong top 10 but we got swept up in someone else’s crash with less than 10 laps to go…”
Dale Jr. and the No. 8 Budweiser Team History at Loudon
Winston Cup Races: 3
Best Start: 13th (Summer, 1999)
Best Finish: 21st (Summer, 2000)
The 1999 race was the second Winston Cup start for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the Budweiser team. They qualified 13th and then ran well until ignition problems knocked them out of the race.
It’s All Dale, All the Time
This week’s media coverage includes feature stories about (or including) Dale Jr. in Sports Illustrated, People, Entertainment Weekly, plus the covers of Stock Car Racing and Racing Milestones magazines.You can even catch a glimpse of Jr’s new motor coach and even a brief appearance from the young Mr. Junior on the Man Show on Comedy Central. (See a replay of the “Fast Cars” episode at 11:00 pm EDT Saturday.)
What: New England 300 - 300 Laps, 300 miles
1-mile oval - Race# 19 of 36
Where: New Hampshire International Raceway / Loudon,NH
When: Sunday, July 21 - 2:00pm
Watch: TNT-TV - Pre-race:1:30 pm (All Times: Eastern)
Bud Pole Qualifying:
Bud Pole qualifying will be seen Friday at 2:00 pm on CNN/SI. The qualifying session will also be heard live nationally on the Motor Racing Network (MRN) on a radio station near you…
Thanks to Jade for the Bud Race Preview. Jim 8-)
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