Chip Ganassi Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. will merge operations beginning with the 2009 Sprint Cup season, the teams announced in a news release Wednesday.
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Dale Earnhardt Inc. has secured Steak-umm Company LLC as a primary sponsor on its #8 and #01 Chevrolets for selected races during the 2008 NASCAR campaign.
After guiding Dale Earnhardt Jr to his most successful NASCAR Nextel Cup season to date, Tony Eury Sr has stepped down from the role of crew chief of the #8 Budweiser sponsored DEI Chevrolet.
Dale Earnhardt Jr lasted until lap 52 of 200 in Sunday's Pennsylvania 500 before a combination of cramp in his recently burned leg and a virtually undriveable racecar saw him reluctantly hand the controls of his #8 Budweiser Chevrolet over to relief driver John Andretti.
It has been confirmed that Michael Waltrip and primary sponsors NAPA will return to Dale Earnhardt Incorporated for the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series after a series of strong races by the double Daytona 500 winner.
Although the Pepsi 400 victory went to Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Incorporated didn't leave the Daytona International Speedway winless after Michael Waltrip's #15 NAPA pit crew scooped the honours in the latest round of the McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fuelled by Powerade.
Dale Earnhardt Incorporated teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr and Jason Keller both had their Bud Pole qualifying times disallowed at the Talladega Superspeedway after NASCAR officials found illegalities with the height of the rear quarter panels of their Chevrolet Monte Carlo's.