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Q&A: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

NASCAR Nextel Cup Series #8 Budweiser Chevrolet driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL-2/20/05 ©Dorsey Patrick
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Q&A: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Thursday, 2nd February 2006

The Las Vegas test was important for every Nextel Cup team, not least for the #8 DEI squad and driver Dale Earnhardt Jr, who will be working frantically over the two days to re-acclimatise himself with returning crew chief Tony Eury Jr and get his championship ambitions back on-track.

And then to go come in and run in '01, to run third and I felt like I run good here in the Busch car. I don't know where we went off track over the last three or four years here, but we've really, really struggled both our cars have struggled every time we've raced here.

So we've got to figure out how to get this track more comfortable to the drivers. I feel like Tony Junior and the guys struggled trying to improve the cars because of how the drivers struggled with the tracks. So I've got to really buckle down and try to do whatever I can to make that easier for Tony Junior so that he can learn whatever he needs to learn and understand what the car is telling him and what I'm telling him.

So we're going to work really hard over the next couple of days. I would like to come over here and run in the top-10 this time around, if not better. But if we can improve and get in the top-10, you know, I feel pretty excited about that. But we've got California to race at before, so we'll be able to gain a little bit of knowledge out of there. There's a little bit of similarities in the two tracks.

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I think it's a great, obviously a great city and a great place for any sporting venue or a great place for NASCAR to be as often as it can be. But as a driver, sure, I'd like to come back. But that's kind of up to the people with all of the money in their pockets.

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NASCAR Nextel Cup Series #8 Budweiser Chevrolet driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL-2/20/05 ©Dorsey Patrick
NASCAR Nextel Cup Series #8 Budweiser Chevrolet driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL-2/20/05 ©Dorsey Patrick
Dale Earnhardt Jr puts the 2006 Chevrolet through its paces at Daytona
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Tony Stewart addresses the media in Las Vegas. [Pic Credit Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images]
Reed Sorensen leads Kurt Busch in testing at Las Vegas. [Pic Credit Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images]
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Hendrick teammates Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson chat in Las Vegas. [Pic Credit Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images]
03/13/05 Las Vegas. Matt Kenseth finished the day in the 8th position. Photo Credit: Autostock
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