Dale Jr
Dale Jr
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr., known professionally as Dale Earnhardt Jr., Dale Jr., or just Junior, is an American professional stock car racing driver and champion team owner. He is the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Sr. He is also the grandson of both NASCAR driver Ralph Earnhardt and stock car fabricator Robert Gee, the brother of Kelley Earnhardt-Miller, the half-brother of former driver Kerry Earnhardt, the uncle of driver Jeffrey Earnhardt, the stepson of Teresa Earnhardt, and...
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I'm excited to be here and really impressed with the professionalism and attention to detail the Navy demonstrates.
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I'm really disappointed running like this. I'm surprised it's been this way most of the year, but now we have to go out and try to win races. We quit worrying about points a long time ago.
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I'm surprised. I bet you all are surprised. That's the way it goes.
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I want to run in the top five and lead some laps.
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That is what they pay us the big money for.
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Target is to run as good as you can every week. Everything else kind of takes cares of itself. We just go out there and race as hard as we can, take the car we got, do the best we can with it every week.
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Snap-on Tools has been a part of the Dale Earnhardt Inc. family since my father began racing. Their products have been in our shops for decades and we rely on them to help us win races.
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It takes a lot away from the credibility of the sport if you're giving somebody a helping hand to make it more exciting. I just don't feel like it's fair to those drivers. I don't think it's fair to my team. In a sense, it takes a lot away from them. It wouldn't be cool if that happened. I wouldn't be too comfortable with it.
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They defend everything we believe in. It's very important that the troops know that all Americans support them. And although their job may be difficult, they've got a lot of people behind them.
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They can change the bumpers and stuff and we'll still run into each other because that's what we do.
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It, obviously, doesn't seem like five years. You know, it's good that he's still on people's minds. People still miss him. I still like to see the (No.) 3 stickers in the back of everybody's pickup truck and stuff like that.
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This test right here is very important, very key for our team, not only just for this race (March 12 at Las Vegas), but for a lot of tracks. We'll need to learn as much as we possibly can, not only for Las Vegas, but for other tracks that are similar.
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Tony and I are a good combination. And we're going to try to work toward next year. These next nine races are real important and we're going to try to build on that.
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Beating and banging, man I was worried that my car was tore up too bad to be competitive.