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If not for five blown engines, Dale Earnhardt Jr. would be racing for a Nextel Cup championship in this final season driving for his late father’s company.
To his legion of fans, three engine failures in the last seven races is more than a little suspicious considering that he and stepmother Teresa Earnhardt, who runs the Dale Earnhardt Inc., team have a cool relationship — at best.
“We understand that there might be a natural assumption that because he is leaving, the team would say ‘Who cares? We are not going to try for him,’ ” said general manager John Story. “If anything, it’s the other way around.
“We tried hard to get him in the Chase. We wanted him to win the championship. We always said that would have been the most appropriate way for him to leave DEI.”
Of course, DEI is going to say that. And conspiracy theorists will forever be convinced Earnhardt was the victim of an intricate and evil plot by the wicked stepmother to punish him for his betrayal.
Story knows the allegations are out there. The same thing happened in May after Earnhardt said he was leaving and teammate Martin Truex Jr. promptly took off on the track.
“We didn’t go in there overnight and put all the cars from Dale’s shop and put them in Martin’s shop,” Story said. “That’s not the way it happens. And, what people don’t consider is that (Earnhardt) has run as well or better than (Truex) over the last six to eight weeks. He just doesn’t have the finishes to show for it.”
•LAWSUIT: Sterling Marlin, Joe Nemechek and two crew chiefs have filed breach-of-contract suits against Ginn Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. All four lost their jobs when the teams merged in late July.
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