Dale Jr

[tommypa]

I missed the Duels but can someone tell me why Dale Jr ran so badly? He is a favorite on Sunday but ran terrible yesterday. Does anyone have any insight on this?

Thanks for any updates.

Tommy

 

[dpkimmel2001]

I read an article this morning that indicated that Vickers had a little to do with it. Apparently Vickers was causing a lot of issues out there and Jr's. car was one of many that he had come in contact with. Here's a little blurb from that article.....

Brian Vickers was not a very popular participant in Thursday's second 150-mile qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway.

Two drivers – Juan Pablo Montoya and Dale Earnhardt Jr. – launched into profanity-laced tirades about Vickers over their respective team radios. And Tony Stewart gave Vickers a shove out of the way late in the race on his way to the lead.

"It was a fun until Vickers screwed me, you know?" Montoya said. "We were running up front and Vickers, on the restart, got inside of me and it dropped me all the way to the back."

Earnhardt was incensed after he and Vickers made contact early in the race, forcing him to pit to have extensive fender damage repaired. Crew chief Lance McGrew implored him to think about the "squirrels between you and the trophy" on Sunday.

 

[foehammer111]

Junior and Vickers got together, and caused some fender damage to Earnhardt's car. He had to make a stop of pit road to repair the damage, and that put him at the back of the field.

He played it safe the rest of the event at the request of his crew chief. Earnhardt wanted to go for the win saying that he doesn't care if he has to go to a back up car.