Satuday was not a good day for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports team. First, teammate Danica Patrick was collected in a crash and could not continue after she clipped a car and heavily damaged the right front of the car. Then later, as Dale Jr. was running among the leaders, he was clipped and sent on his roof. The car was destroyed. So, JR Motorsports lost one car and had a second damaged quite a bit. Recall, this is a team struggling to find sponsorship for a full year effort and now this happens to the team. “We tore up a really, really good race car,” Dale Jr. said. “I’m sure it’s dead. We built that one, we can build another one. The thing about it for us, to be honest is, we do our (accounting) books by the month and kind of know where we are financially and we were looking for about $400,000 between now and the end of the season, trying to work that in somehow and find that or cut that somewhere and we just knocked ourselves back a few steps because we tore up that car completey and I don’t know about (Patrick’s car). It was an expensive day for us.” I [Dustin Long] then asked Dale Jr. that, based on his marketability, he’ll have to run more Nationwide races later this season. “I only have two marked right now,” Dale Jr. “I’m willing to drive up to four or five. We have had that on the table for several months to offer to anyone that is interested in coming to our company. I’m ready to go. We’re already working on a couple of them deals, we should be fine.”(Hampton Roads)(2-14-2010)
