NASCAR-CUP: Martinville II: Dale Earnhardt Jr preview
Guest 17 October 2007 22:39:23
Dale Earnhardt Jr. / Driver, #8 Budweiser Chevrolet:
"Martinsville is a place where I think I've improved as much or more than at any other track since I joined the Cup series. Our first few races here, it was like a circus. We were flying through the air and smashing into about everything. It's funny now, but at the time it was agonizing and frustrating. We hadn't run there in the Busch Series, so it was a huge learning curve. Then it was like turning on a light switch - the crew gave me some great cars, we started qualifying really well and rang-up five straight top-five finishes. Now, I'm surprised when we don't run in the top-five. It's a lot like when we go to Richmond or Talladega - we walk in the track and we just expect to be up front. I wondered if things would change with the Car of Tomorrow, but we went in there and led a lot of laps in the spring race (the Bud team earned the 10 bonus points for most laps led in April, heading the field for 137 laps). The thing that's missing? That's easy to see. We've had a lot of really good days but we've never been able to close the deal. I'd be really happy to trade all of those laps led and those top-fives and all of the Martinsville hot dogs I've eaten in the past for a win there this week."
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