From the February, 2007 issue of Stock Car Insider
The Future of Dale Earnhardt Jr & the Impact of Toyota
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| Headline #1) The future of Dale Earnhardt Jr and DEI. There has been much publicized banter between Dale Jr and Theresa revolving Dale's contract which is set to expire after this season. The latest release is that Dale wants majority ownership of DEI. If Jr doesn't get that, expect him to be driving the #3 GM Good wrench car for Richard Childress Racing next year...just a hunch! Headline #2) The impact of Toyota. Many NASCAR hard-liners see the entry of a foreign car manufacturer as the culmination of many bad decisions that spell the end of NASCAR. These same hard-liners, however, believed the end of NASCAR came in the early 70's when NASCAR allowed custom-built as opposed to stock chassis. As we all can see, NASCAR is still here and thriving more so now than ever What Toyota will do is pump enormous amounts of money into R&D to help propel one of its teams to a championship. This will force the US manufacturers, already feeling the strain of lower sales, to either pony up with more cash or simply pull out.
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