With #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s sister and chief negotiator reiterating last week that the a new contract with Dale Earnhardt Inc. [DEI] needs to be completed in the next 45 days, Dale Earnhardt Inc. President Max Siegel says that’s a possibility. “We’ve been working hard with the goal to meet that deadline,” Siegel said Sunday before the Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. “We have had really productive conversations. … We are looking at every single issue in great detail. We’ve got a great group of people, we have a great foundation. We’ve been running pretty good. We can always do better. What we’re doing is we’re looking to see how we can improve every area of competition. We’re addressing it right away. Things are happening to take it up a notch. I’ve never given any thought or much thought at all to anything other than having a healthy, long-term relationship with those guys, what I feel now that is different than when I got there, as we build a relationship, I think Kelley and Dale would make really, really great partners.”(SceneDaily.com)(4-16-2007)
