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Jr's first ride with hendrick Motor Sports
Earnhardt Ties To the #88
Ralph Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s grandfather, drove a No. 88 Petty Enterprises "Oldsmobile 88" in the 1957 Virginia 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. The elder Earnhardt started ninth and finished 13th in the May 19 Grand National division race won by Buck Baker. Ralph Earnhardt also piloted the No. 188 entries for Petty in seven events that season, posting three top-10 results and six top-15s
'88' DEBUTS: On Sept. 11, 1949 at Langhorne (Pa.) Speedway, driver Pepper Cunningham started 15th and drove his No. 88 car, a 1949 Lincoln, to a 33rd-place finish in the Strictly Stock event. Won by Curtis Turner, the race marked the first time a No. 88 was entered in NASCAR competition.
I would like to thank Jr Motor Sports for the info above,Drive on Dale its your time to shine,and AMP for the sweet Pictures and Hendrick Motor Sposts for any other info,and Nascar for all the great pages of Info and insite on racing, and last but not least id like to thank the guard for the great pictures.
Dale Jr lands a new ride for 2008 after a long battle with step mom,Jr leaves D.E.I for Rick Hendrick Motor Sports, Lands 50/50 ownership for the #88 car, at age 32 Jr as his father before him at the same age when he moved to R.C.R, Moves on his own to go after the Cup title.
GoDaddy To Sponsor Dale Jr In 6 Nationwide Races
The paint scheme for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Nationwide Series car was unveiled Tuesday on GoDaddy.com. The company will sponsoring Earnhardt Jr. in six Nationwide (formerly Busch Series) races in 2008.
WATCH WHAT YOU WISH FOR IT MAY COME TRUE, THE TIME IS NOW BRING IT HOME JR
Born:Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Date of Birth:October 10, 1974
Birthplace:Concord, NC
Residence:Mooresville, NC
Height:6'0"
Weight:165 lbs.
Marital Status:Single
Dale Earnhardt Sr Short Bio,
At the age of 32 Earnhardt made the decision to rejoin Childress. Driver and owner immediately began a program to achieve the level of performance both believed would take them to a NASCAR Winston Cup championship. Neither could have envisioned the success they would achieve together.
Dale Earnhardt Jr Short Bio,
At the age of 32 Earnhardt Jr made the decision to join HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS. Driver and owner immediately began a program to achieve the level of performance both believed would take them to a NASCAR Cup championship.This story has not been writen yet.
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on driving the #3
On TNT Sunday, speculated about whether his late father would have wanted him to inherit his father's No. 3 as he moves to Hendrick Motorsports: "That was his number and not mine. He wouldn't want that -- wouldn't like that at all."
My take on the whole situation is this with Jr
At the 2nd race of the year in 2001 (Rockingham), who recalls Teresa Earnhardt making an appearance? I can’t.
I do remember Dale Jr. being the public face and voice of DEI. I recall the cameras and mikes shoved into his face and him being asked over and over and over the tough questions. What direction was the company headed and what changes would be made and how would they rebound from this tragedy.
I also recall him being at every track doing his job every week. No leave of absence or brief pardon.
I remember him trying his best to live up to his obligations and responsibilities. Who was the main public representative of a company that he had no say-so over when it came to decisions?
Dale Jr was the one whose grief and struggle to mourn was on public display week after week while Teresa hid away. He is the one who had to deal directly with all of the media hoopla and questions and innuendos and the circus that came with it…..week after week after week.
I have always felt like he was thrown to the wolves in that respect and he handled it better than most. I do not doubt that Teresa Earnhardt was not extremely instrumental in creating DEI and marketing it to the fullest potential. Unfortunately, her knowledge of the racing and competition side of the business isn’t as extensive and some of the personnel decisions that have been made have affected it greatly in the past few years. I applaud her for her intelligence, strength and grit to keep DEI up and running. However,
I question her stubbornness and unwillingness to acknowledge not only Dale Jr’s role in that company but also Kelley Earnhardt Elledge’s.
Teresa Earnhardt this msg is for you none of the Dale earnhardt SR fans ever really new you as nothing but Dale's wife,But to you we say good luck with D.E.I but your going to have to do it on your own we the Dale earnhardt Sr fans now ride with Dale Jr sorry but thats the way it is.
I hope JR competes and wins at HMS. I wish him the best of luck and don’t blame him one bit for going. Maybe he won’t have to take Rick Hendrick to court for the legal rights to his own name.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Biography
Dale Earnhardt Jr. possesses one of the most familiar names—and faces—in the world of stock-car racing, but he has yet to become a top-ranked champion driver for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, better known as NASCAR. Much of his fame stems from his family name: he is the son of the late Dale Earnhardt, one of NASCAR's most beloved stars. Since his father's death from a crash during the 2001 Daytona 500, the younger Earnhardt has had to make his own way: as a driver, as a grieving son, and as a celebrity. He has won several major races in NASCAR's premier racing series, the Nextel Cup (formerly known as the Winston Cup), including the Daytona 500 in February of 2004. Earnhardt is one of NASCAR's most popular drivers. He has a devoted following among race fans, many of whom started out as fans of his father. However, Earnhardt has, in his own right, captured the hearts of millions with his racing talent as well as his easygoing, regular-guy personality.
A racing dynasty
Earnhardt was born into a racing family. His father, Dale Sr., known as the Intimidator, was a seven-time Winston Cup champion and winner of seventy-six races in a career that spanned more than twenty years. Dale Sr. went into racing to follow in his own father's footsteps; Ralph Earnhardt was the 1956 champion of the NASCAR National Sportsman division, now known as the Busch series. "I wanted to race—that's all I ever wanted to do," Dale Sr. proclaimed in a profile of the Earnhardts at NASCAR.com. Dale Jr. clearly inherited his father's passion as well as the racing mentality and incorporated it into his own life. At NASCAR.com Dale Sr. recalled taking his son gokarting when the boy was about ten years old. At one point as he raced around the track, Dale Jr.'s wheel was clipped, the go-kart spun out of control, and the boy went flying. His concerned father raced across the track, but the boy jumped up and immediately asked about his gokart. Dale Sr. recalled, "The only thing he was concerned about was 'Where's my go-kart?' That was a pretty awesome sight, I'll tell you."
"There's nothing better and nothing I'd rather do than be going around the track in a race car. That's something I've fallen in love with and don't want to give up for a long time."
The lure of racing was so powerful in the Earnhardt family that Dale Jr., his sister, Kelley, and his half-brother, Kerry, all entered the sport. Kelley Earnhardt told Lee Spencer of the Sporting News that when they were growing up together she would not have guessed that her brother, Dale Jr., would become a racer: "He spent a lot of time playing with Matchbox cars, but he was not aggressive ... and didn't take risks." At first Earnhardt joined another branch of the family business, going to work at his father's Chevrolet dealership. However, by his late teens he had begun racing. Earnhardt and his brother Kerry pooled their resources to buy a 1978 Monte Carlo, which they rebuilt and raced in the Street Stock division. After two seasons, Earnhardt moved up to the Late Model division, in which he raced for three seasons. In 113 races in that division between 1994 and 1996, he won only three times, but he astounded onlookers by finishing in the top ten ninety times. His relationship to his legendary father earned him no special treatment during the early years; the teenager used his own money and was expected to secure his own corporate sponsors, companies that help finance a racer in exchange for the display of their logo on the car or on the driver's uniform. Just as his father had done, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had to work his way up.
By 1997 Earnhardt had done just that, moving up to NASCAR's more prestigious Busch series. At that point, everything changed. "I was having fun driving late-model cars. Just messing around," he recalled in Sporting News. "When I started running Busch, I got serious. Everything about that was cool. Sure, I was seeking my father's approval. I wanted to make him proud. I'd been trying to do that all my life." Getting serious made all the difference for Earnhardt, who won the Busch series championships two years in a row, in 1998 and 1999. He won thirteen races during those two years, finishing in the top five in almost half the races he entered. When he entered the Busch series full-time, Earnhardt began driving a car owned by his father. In a fitting tribute to Ralph Earnhardt, who started the family racing dynasty, Earnhardt adopted his grandfather's number and has been racing in car number eight ever since.
Tragedy and triumph in racing's big leagues
For the 2000 season Earnhardt moved up to the Winston Cup circuit, NASCAR's most prestigious division. He quickly established his rookie season as one to remember, winning his twelfth race as well as his sixteenth. That season he also won the Winston, NASCAR's all-star race, becoming the first rookie to do so. He enjoyed a friendly rivalry with his father, who pushed his son toward success, not by easing off on him, but by riding him hard, just as he did every other racer in the field. Earnhardt entered his second season in the Winston Cup with high hopes, planning to build on his successes from his rookie year. He believed his chances were good to come up victorious in the Daytona 500 in February. On February 18, 2001, during the final lap of the Daytona 500, Earnhardt's father was involved in a serious multi-car crash. Earnhardt finished second in the race, but no celebrations followed. Dale Sr. was rushed to the hospital; it was determined later that he had died instantly from the crash. The Earnhardt family, as well as millions of devoted fans, were devastated.
Jr found all at once all eyes were on him
All eyes were on Earnhardt in the aftermath of the crash; close friends observed that the young man seemed to grow up overnight, thrust into maturity by the loss of his father. Unable to grieve privately, Earnhardt and his family had to cope with the fans' sorrow as well as their own. One week later, Earnhardt returned to the driver's seat to race at the North Carolina Speedway. That race ended badly, as Earnhardt was slowed in the first lap by a minor accident. He struggled over the next couple of months, performing poorly in many of his races. In July he headed back to the site of his father's death, the Daytona International Speedway, for the Pepsi 400. His stepmother, Teresa, did not attend the race, unwilling to return so soon to that arena. Earnhardt somehow put aside his grief, focused tightly on the track in front of him, and emerged victorious. "I will be crying sooner or later," Earnhardt said of his feelings for his father after the emotional victory, as quoted in the NASCAR.com profile of his family. "I dedicate this win to him—there ain't nobody else." Earnhardt went on to two more significant victories that season, winning at Dover, Delaware, in September, the first race after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and winning in October at Talladega, the site of his father's last first-place finish before his death. Earnhardt finished the 2001 season ranked eighth in points (racers are awarded a certain number of points for each race based on their finish), with nearly $6 million in winnings.
While Earnhardt had a mediocre season on the tracks in 2002, his popularity soared. Sports Illustrated's Jeff MacGregor speculated on the phenomenal adoration of his fans: "Until the time of his father's death, Dale Jr. ... had inspired in fans only the kind of tentative, speculative affection that surrounds the son of any famous man.... The fans' affections, their swarming passions, untethered after his father's accident, are beginning now to bear down on him." Conscious of his appeal to the masses, corporations beat a path to his door, offering millions of dollars in endorsement deals in return for Earnhardt plastering their logos all over his car and clothing. He published a book about his rookie Winston Cup season, Driver #8, which reached number four on the New York Times best-seller list and stayed on that list for seventeen weeks. He still mourned his father's loss—MacGregor quoted him as saying, "I used to miss him every minute. Now I've got it down to about every five minutes"—but he had begun to move on. He took on a much greater role in Dale Earnhardt Inc., the racing team begun by his father and owned by his stepmother, focusing on the team's long-term success.
During the 2003 season, Earnhardt performed better than he had in any prior year. He won two Cup races, at Talladega and Phoenix. He had thirteen top-five finishes, and finished in sixth through tenth place another eight times. His final Cup standing was third place, his highest finish since entering the Winston Cup division. He continued to win the fervent admiration of fans, who voted him NASCAR's most popular driver; he won more votes, 1.3 million, than the rest of the top-ten drivers combined. Earnhardt began the 2004 season with a flourish, winning the celebrated Daytona 500 on February 15, almost three years exactly after his father's death on the same track. Whether he goes on to have a career that matches his father's stellar performance or simply remains one of a handful of top NASCAR drivers does not seem to matter to his fans. After his Phoenix victory in late 2003, a reporter asked Earnhardt how things might change if he became a Winston Cup champion. Earnhardt considered the question, according to AutoWeek magazine, and responded, "I don't know if it would be a whole lot different. Fans cheer for you not because of wins, but ... because of who you are, what you represent, and your attitude."
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