NASCAR Podcast
SHOW #223 – Guest: Parker Kligerman, Plus we get the latest info on Dale Earnhardt Jr., his concussion, missing 2 races and more. We also pummel you with all the NASCAR headlines under the sun, and preview Chase race #5 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Hosted by Kerry Murphey and Toby Christie (47:46 mins)
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DALE EARNHARDT, JR.
RICK HENDRICK
STEVE LETARTE
DR. JERRY PETTY
KERRY THARP: Joining us up front we have Steve Letarte, crew chief of the No. 88; Dale Earnhardt, Jr., driver of the No. 88; team owner Rick Hendrick; and Dr. Jerry petty, neurosurgeon. At this time I’m going to call on Dale Earnhardt, Jr., who has some things he’d like to share with everyone.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: I guess I’ll just start out with where this all kind of began. We had a test at Kansas about five weeks ago, and we blew a right front tire going into Turn 1, and I remember everything about that accident and everything after that accident, but I knew that I didn’t feel — you know your body, and you know how your mind works, and I knew something was just not quite right.
But I decided to just try to push through and work through it. I’d had concussions before and knew exactly kind of what I was dealing with.
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HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS STATEMENT
CONCORD, N.C. (Oct. 11, 2012) – Dale Earnhardt Jr. will not compete in the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway after being diagnosed with a concussion following the Oct. 7 race at Talladega, Ala.
Earnhardt, driver of the No. 88 Chevrolets for Hendrick Motorsports, was diagnosed Wednesday afternoon in Charlotte. Regan Smith will be the team’s substitute driver at Charlotte and Kansas.
NOTE: AJ ALLMENDINGER is on the entry list now to drive the #51 car
Despite Sunday’s Talladega victory, Matt Kenseth remains a long-shot in search of his second NASCAR Sprint Cup title. Kenseth is 12th, 62 points out of the Chase lead but comes to Charlotte as the defending winner of the Bank of America 500.
A two-time Charlotte winner, the driver of Roush Fenway Racing’s No. 17 Ford finished 10th in May. Each of NASCAR’s four manufacturers has scored at least one victory in the track’s most recent seven races.
DENVER, Colo. (Oct. 10, 2012) – Former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kurt Busch will make his Furniture Row Racing debut in Saturday night’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The agreement with the Denver-based Furniture Row Racing calls for Busch to drive the team’s No. 78 Chevrolet in the final six Sprint Cup races of 2012 and during the 2013 campaign.
“This weekend begins a new chapter in my racing career and also a new chapter for Furniture Row Racing,” said Busch, who captured the NASCAR title in 2004, the first year of the Chase. “The excitement level about driving the No. 78 Furniture Row/Farm American Chevrolet is at a high pitch and I can’t wait to get started.
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