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Originally Posted by RedNeckRaider
I have no idea what that means~
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Sounds like the peace pipe to me...
Anyway, I had this all written up so:
Here's what I think about Dale Earnhardt Jr. He has talent for sure; you don't win 18 races with none. He's not a hack, at all. But Michael Waltrip won some races at DEI, too. Is he better than Mikey?
Yes, I'll grant that Dale Jr. is better than Michael Waltrip.
He's done jack and shit, results-wise, with Hendrick, supposedly the best stuff money can buy. But in his defense, there seems always to have been a Hendrick car that's lacking. Kenny Schrader, Ricky Craven, Brian Vickers come to mind. (All in the #25, which is coincidentally or not, even through all the twists and turns of passing years and crew/driver swapping, essentially the 88 car today)
Junior just doesn't seem to be the kind of driver who can raise the level of the car he's in. He can run with any of 'em in a good car, but if the car ain't just right, he ain't competitive. It's not through lack of effort. I just don't think he has that...thing that the great ones had/have, the ability to get that car where it needs to be through sheer talent and will. On the other hand, though, maybe today's car is such that few (or no) drivers can do that anymore. I don't know.
I'd say if the guy's last name wasn't Earnhardt, he'd be...Martin Truex, Jr.
Or Greg Biffle.