The 2004 Season in Numbers:
Budweiser No. 8 Team with driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.
The 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season was the most successful in the brief career of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the No. 8 Budweiser team.
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Here are the team's career-best marks this season:
(Numbers in parenthesis show the rank among all Nextel
Cup teams, so (2) means second best overall this season.)
Victories: 6 (2)
Prize Money: $8,913,510 (2)
Top-3 Finishes: 13 (2)
Top-5 Finishes: 16 (2)
Top-10 Finishes: 21* (5) * ties 03' season
Avg. Start: 11.9 (3)
Avg. Finish: 11.8 (3)
Laps Led: 1131 (3)
Laps Completed: 10,588 (2)
Led Points: 10 weeks (first time to lead Cup point standings)
Stats within the inaugural 10-race "Chase for the Nextel Cup:
Victories: 2
Top-3 Finishes: 4
Top-10 Finishes: 6
Top-33 Finishes: 10
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The Bud team won the first race of the Nextel Cup era, the season-opening Daytona 500 (supposedly that's a big race)... The team led 19 races and also won a Twin-125 qualifying race at Daytona in 2004... Due to injuries suffered in a sports-car crash in June, Dale Jr. was forced to use a relief driver for the first time. Martin Truex Jr. (Loudon) became the second driver to ever compete in the No. 8 Bud car, while John Andretti (Pocono) became the third the following week... The Bud team won races at Daytona (Feb.), Atlanta (March), Richmond (May), Bristol (August), Talladega (Oct.) and Phoenix (Nov.)... Dale Jr. had two "weekend-sweeps." winning the Busch Series and Cup Series races the same weekend at Daytona (Feb.) and Bristol (Aug.)... Dale Jr. now has a streak of five consecutive multi-victory seasons, and has been in the Cup Top-10 in points for 69 consecutive weeks (despite being docked 25 points twice in seperate uh... 'incidents.').. The fifth-place finish is the third top-10 points finish in the last four seasons.
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Dale Jr. and No. 8 Bud team career numbers: (1999-2004)
Starts: 183
Victories: 15
Bud Poles: 6
Top-3 Finishes: 37
Top-5 Finishes: 52
Top-10 Finishes: 78
Races Led: 92
Laps Led: 4440
Money Winnings: $29,555,869
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Thanks to Jade Gurss and Mike Davis from fingerprint inc. for sending the race reports and updates.
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