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Q&A: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Saturday, 11th February 2006

After missing last year’s Chase for the Championship, Dale Earnhardt Jr has a more familiar back-up crew for the 2006 season, a season in which Earnhardt Jr says he will definitely be a contender.

Start the season at the beginning of January, take some of them weeks and put them throughout the season and give us some days off during the summertime, in the month of August, September, what the hell ever, break up those 20-race stretches, start the season earlier. I don't care if we race year round. That way we ain't got to change the body. We just keep racing, racing, racing. We're spending a lot of money cutting these bodies up because we think we can make them better, but they're probably not. We just wouldn't have to do so much during the off-season. The off-season is short. Might as well make it another month shorter. Give us those weekends off during the year.

I'd rather be -- I'd rather go on vacation in (expletive) July rather than December, for crying out loud. I mean, give me a break.

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