Dale Earnhardt Jr. By all accounts, Dale Earnhardt Jr. should have a room full of grandfather clocks. He came up on late model half-milers not unlike Martinsville, has scored victories at Bristol and Richmond, has short-track racing in his blood. And hes led a ton of laps there -- 868 to be exact, more than David Pearson or Fireball Roberts or Lee Petty. And yet he hasnt been able to break through, despite leading over 100 laps in four different races, and twice finishing second. His best Martinsville race might have been in the spring of 2009, when Earnhardt led 195 laps and wound up third at the end. But still, no clock of his own -- at least, not yet.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:30:13 +0000