Number of starts since Dale Earnhardt Jr's last win:
21
Dale Earnhardt Jr's longest losing streak:
76Races
771 Days
Junior Disappoints Team, Fans and Self in 2008.
2008 Season Summary
This past season started
with the words, "Junior
is gonna win a lot of
races this year!" from
Darrell Waltrip. These
words were echoed
throughout NASCAR
circles inside and
outside of the garage.
But it didn't happen.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
stepped up and showed
the world why he might
be the most over rated
athlete in all of
professional sports and
is definitely the most
over rated driver in the
proud history of NASCAR.
Junior flirted with
victory at different
points in the season, he
even pulled out a
victory at Michigan
snapping a 76 race
winless streak. Of
course, that win was
credited more to crew
chief Tony Eury Jr. than
Dale's driving skills
after tactfully gambling
correctly on fuel
mileage.
Junior Nation acted as
if the win was a
harbinger of things to
come, but were let down
week after week as
Junior flirted with
victory only to cut
tires, stall out in the
pits, gamble on fuel
incorrectly and bicker
constantly with Eury. He
qualified 4th for the
Chase after losing what
was a solid grip on
second in the first
three quarters of the
season and then
proceeded to collapse
when the heat was turned
up during the Chase for
the cup finishing in
last place easily.
Junior's Hendrick
Motorsports team mate
Jimmie Johnson won his
third straight Sprint
Cup and is quickly
becoming a NASCAR legend
like their other team
mate Jeff Gordon. Next
season Mark Martin
replaces Casey Mears in
the Hendrick stable and
that should efficiently
drop Junior to the
fourth spot in the line
up. Perhaps he'll thrive
without the pressure to
be a champion.
Junior nation continues
to spend their cash and
energy on supporting
Dale Jr. and appear to
be getting used to the
losing each week. We'll
see what happens as the
current losing streak
balloons and the specter
of being on a team with
three legitimate racing
legends next season
takes hold.
Junior has won 17 races. That averages
to roughly 1.7 wins per year
Junior has won 0 Sprint Cup
championships
Junior has had the advantage of being
in the most well-financed race car since he started racing
Junior’s cars almost always qualify in
the top 10 but he NEVER wins
Since Junior entered Sprint Cup many
drivers have won more races then him
Junior NEVER takes responsibility for
his wrecks and losses.. (It’s always his team or another
driver. Check out the interviews on youtube or listen to a
scanner on race day and listen to the whining.)
Junior can’t win in the best cars and
if he was on an under financed team he’d never crack the top
twenty.
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At least 70% of the people at any
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