Dale Earnhardt Inc. has announced that Kerry Earnhardt, son of the late Dale Earnhardt, will drive for the team in the Nationwide Series race at Daytona this weekend.
Earnhardt, 38, will drive the No. 8 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet in his first series attempt this season.
In one start this season, DEI's old flagship Nationwide team has 135 points, after Martin Truex Jr. finished 11th at the season-opening Daytona race in the No. 8 Freightliner Chevrolet.
Truex won the 2004 and 2005 Busch Series (as it was then called) championships with the No. 8 team, which has since run a limited schedule with drivers including Truex and the since-departed Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Kerry Earnhardt's last Nationwide Series start was in this Daytona race last season, where he finished 25th in the No. 63 Team Glock Chevrolet owned by Jeff Spraker. Earnhardt's best season in the series was in 2002, when he finished 22nd in points driving the No. 12 Supercuts Chevrolet for Fitz-Bradshaw Motorsports.
Next season, DEI plans to bring back the No. 8 Nationwide Series team full-time with development drivers Trevor Bayne and Jeffrey Earnhardt. The team may run additional races towards the end of this season with any of its drivers in preparation for a full-time schedule in 2009.
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Clayton Caldwell about 1 year ago
Sad, just sad! Give up already you are horrible!! Thank god your step mom likes you more then Jr!
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Jan Clark about 1 year ago
Learn how to spell you ignorant red neck, before you post something do a spell check/grammar check. What a moron, "then"? geez... it is THAN.
Idiot
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Jane Buck 4 months ago
I am well educated but if I don't remember to hit spell check I suppose my image could crumble and get trampled in a huurry too! Anyway.......................From a distance it seems that Kerry Earnhardt is a more developed person in areas of the heart while Dale Jr. seems a bit stunted emotionally. I could be wrong but he does not seem happy and a bit moody and not so happy his older brother "showed up". I am the youngest of six and sort of get tired of siblings who sound off that they wish you hadn't shown up and wrecked their parade. I know that sounds bitter but it actually makes me sad and it makes me sad to see Dale Jr. appear so unloving, so much so that the first person to comment noticed too but the difference is that I don't champion that kind of meaness. Your spelling isn't half as offensive Clayton, as your mean little disposition.
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