Did Rick Hendrick Take the Bait this Week?

by Charlie Turner

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May 29, 2009 10:13 pm UTC No Comments

The fishing was slow at Lowes Motor Speedway Memorial Day weekend. A cold front came through bringing a rainy end to the holiday racing and the Coca Cola 600.

The race was cut to just past half distance and the several rain-caused cautions gave the normal Wall-Bait feeders a break. The walls of Lowes Motorspeedway are mostly clean. But you can’t say that no one hit the wall in Charlotte.

The rain didn’t hide the continued futility of the Amp Energy No. 88 team. The combo of Junior’s, Earnhardt and Eury, had been nibbling at the crash bait for most of the fishing season. This week, the boss bit.

Rick Hendrick has decided that the experiment in NASCAR in-breeding has failed. The cousins Earnhardt didn’t get the job done. Dale Junior has a new crew chief and Tony Junior has….a respite from scapegoat-ism.

Dover will most assuredly see more sheet metal in the wall. But there may not be a bigger hit in NASCAR this year than the one Earnhardt fans have taken so far.

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hendrick Motorsports, Lowes Motor Speedway, NASCAR, Wall Bait

Tagged with: Rick Hendrick, Tony Eury Jr, Wall Bait

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