Post by dalejrfan on Jun 14, 2005 8:23:45 GMT -5
Signs of frustration continue to show with Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 8 Chevrolet team.
Earnhardt Jr. qualified poorly and then ran into trouble early in Sunday's Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway with two blown left-front tires.
Earnhardt Jr. moved as high as 22nd before he blew his first left-front on Lap 56. The flat dropped him a lap down, but things got worse soon after, as a second left-front let go on Lap 67.
Earnhardt Jr. finished 33rd, six laps behind winner Carl Edwards. He is now 16th in points, 500 behind leader Jimmie Johnson and in danger of not making the cut for the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
"Just going through it ain't no fun, but, hopefully, we'll just keep working," he said. "We work hard just like everybody else around here.
"As long as it's mathematically possible (to make the Chase), we'll just try to keep working at it. Even when the Chase opportunity is gone, we've still got to show up at the race track and try to win races."
Earnhardt Jr. qualified poorly and then ran into trouble early in Sunday's Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway with two blown left-front tires.
Earnhardt Jr. moved as high as 22nd before he blew his first left-front on Lap 56. The flat dropped him a lap down, but things got worse soon after, as a second left-front let go on Lap 67.
Earnhardt Jr. finished 33rd, six laps behind winner Carl Edwards. He is now 16th in points, 500 behind leader Jimmie Johnson and in danger of not making the cut for the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
"Just going through it ain't no fun, but, hopefully, we'll just keep working," he said. "We work hard just like everybody else around here.
"As long as it's mathematically possible (to make the Chase), we'll just try to keep working at it. Even when the Chase opportunity is gone, we've still got to show up at the race track and try to win races."