Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Jr. bored at Taledega?

This past Sunday, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series raced at Taledega Speedway in Alabama. Dale Jr. and Jimmy Johnson paired up the whole time. They were attached like a little girl to a puppy dog. Coming out of pit road, Dale would wait for Jimmy, and Jimmy would wait for Dale. Last year at Taledega, Jr. pushed Jimmy the whole way to the front for the win. Johnson and Earnhardt rode the back of the pack on Sunday for almost the whole race. At one point, an interviewer came over Dale's headset and was talking to him, and Dale said, "We're just riding the breeze for right now, when we feel like racing, we race, then we back off again." Then Jimmy and Jr. were talking with 22 laps to go, and Jr said "Do you wanna go show these guys how to race, or should we stay back and let them crash?" They were so bored with it, and it was kind of funny to hear them talk like that. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been having a lot of problems the last couple years, but he is slowly getting better. He's had a lot of top 15 wins, and that's how he's in the Chase for the points. Jr is one of my personal favorites, because I loved his dad. After his dad passed away, I, along with many other Dale Earnhardt fans, went right to Dale Jr. because we were hoping he could continue the legacy and be "The Intimidator Jr.", but we were let down, big time. Oh well. He's a good racer, and he doesn't race dirty, which is most important to me.

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