Another Earnhardt Racing Now

[kat2220]

GM driver showcase features next generation Earnhardt

Among the young drivers participating in the final stage of the three-stage GM Racing Development Driver Evaluation Program this week at Nashville Superspeedway is one with famous racing lineage.

Jeffrey Earnhardt, 17, son of Kerry Earnhardt and grandson of Dale Earnhardt, is one of 16 drivers showcasing his talent before representatives of Chevrolet teams in the Nextel Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck series.

The first stage was September 12-13 at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C., and showcased the drivers in Busch Series cars. Stage II of the program - consisting of three different dirt-track late-model cars - was September 19-20 at Dale McDowell Dirt School at North Georgia Speedway in Chatsworth.

The GM Racing Development Driver Evaluation Program was designed to provide opportunities for drivers and teams to connect if an opening exists in a team's driver roster.
I wish him the very best!

 

[buckaroo]

I wish him luck, but if he doesn't have any more talent than his father, he's destined to follow in his footsteps, just another late model driver. Have never seen him perform at Caraway so I don't know how well he races. But this track isn't necessarily a harbinger of a good driver, afterall, Just Labonte was a track champion and where is he now?

And why is it, that Caraway is one of the tracks that drivers are always seemingly given a chance to see what they can do? It's been years since a track champ there has done well in any of the top rank NASCAR series. Seems to me that the last one to even do half way decent in the Cup series was Mike Skinner and we all know where he is now. Bobby Labonte is the only former Caraway champ that is now working that circuit. The track has many names connected to it that many people would recognize, but most of them are, to put it nicely, just also rans and have left the scene.