Dale Earnhardt - Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site

Tuesday News Conference to Detail the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge UPDATE:

Officials of NASCAR, Nextel and Lowe's Motor Speedway will unveil the format and other details concerning the 20th running of the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge during a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 24, in The Speedway Club at Lowe's Motor Speedway. The NASCAR NEXTEL...

Waltrip Keeping the Hatch:

NASCAR's investigation after the Daytona 500 of Michael Waltrip's battered stock car revealed that the roof escape hatch, while bent, held firm. The team said Waltrip, who at 6-foot-5 is the tallest Nextel Cup driver, will continue to use the escape hatch design on...

Race Notes: Rockingham:

Matt Kenseth won the Subway 400 at the North Carolina Speedway, scoring his eighth career NASCAR NEXTEL Cup victory in his 150th career start. His most recent victory came at Las Vegas last March, 35 races ago. Kenseth is the first repeat winner in the last five races...

Testing at Texas:

Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. is one of two-dozen drivers scheduled to test at Texas Motor Speedway prior to the Samsung/RadioShack 500 race week. In addition to NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and Busch Series teams, the Crown Royal International Race of Champions (IROC...

Earnhardt Silent Candlelight Tribute:

Jayski was at the Silent Candlelight Tribute for Dale Earnhardt on Feb 18th at DEI, would guess 300-400 people showed up, fans came from many places all over the country. DEI set up some nice heaters for folks and boards were set up for fans to leave their thoughts...

Pit Crew for Tony Stewart Grabs Top Honors at Daytona

Tony Stewart's #20 Home Depot pit crew captured first-place honors at the Daytona 500, the opening race for the 2004 McDonald's Drive-Thru Pit Championship fueled by POWERade. The McDonald's/POWERade championship is in its second season of rewarding the pit crews, ...

Stewart to run Watkins Glen road race:

With The Glen.com 200 Grand American race scheduled for the Sirius at the Glen NASCAR Nextel Cup weekend, Aug. 12-15. The event will get a boost from an appearance by former Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart. "The more attention we can draw toward that event just helps...

Tony Sr. crew chief of the week:

Not surprisingly, NASCAR fans have selected Tony Eury Sr. as crew chief of the week in the Nextel Cup series. Eury heads the crew on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Daytona 500-winning car, which also won one of the twin 125-mile qualifying races and was third fastest in time...

Andretti at the Rock UPDATE officially entered, Gunselman withdraws:

John Andretti will have a ride for Rockingham and probably the next few races, DEI officials said, and cars are being put together this week for that race, in a rapidly moving venture. That third DEI team had planned to shut down after the Daytona 500 because of lack...

Pretty Funny:

Dale Earnhardt Jr. appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and parallel parked a Chevy Malibu rental car, and backed into the car behind him....then he got into a black Chevy Corvette and did some donuts in the NYC street, even had an in-car cam.(2-18-2004)...

Three Years TODAY – Silent Candlelight Tribute set for Wed, Feb. 18:

Those wishing to pay tribute and remember Dale Earnhardt on the anniversary date that stunned millions will be able to do so on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at Dale Earnhardt, Inc.[Jayski plans to be there since I live close now]. For the third time in as many years, fans are...

Earnhardt Inducted into Greater Charlotte Sports Hall of Fame:

The late stock car racing legend Dale Earnhardt has been named as one of four inaugural inductees of the Greater Charlotte Sports Hall of Fame. Earnhardt dominated NASCAR tracks around the country for more than two decades, winning seven NASCAR Winston Cup championships...

StockCarFans.com RUMBLINGS — DAYTONA:

They all knew who they had to beat....it just wasn't gonna get done today! Dale Earnhardt Jr. took the lead for good on lap 181 and led the rest of the way to grab his first ever Daytona 500 victory. Six years to the day from his dad's only victory in the 500, the ...

Winning both Cup and Busch race

in the same year at Daytona in Feb, two drivers have won both, Darrell Waltrip in 1989 and Bobby Allison in 1988 Make it 3: as Dale Earnhardt Jr. won both the Daytona 500 and the Busch race at Daytona in the same weekend. AND: Dale Jr. also won a 125 race, joining ...

Winning both Cup and Busch race

in the same year at Daytona in Feb, two drivers have won both, Darrell Waltrip in 1989 and Bobby Allison in 1988...

Numbers from the Dyno after the Twins:

NASCAR's chassis dyno runs after Thursday's 125-mile qualifying races showed the gap between the winners and the others to be sizable. Elliott Sadler's Ford engine pulled 422 horsepower at the rear wheels, a bit more than the Chevy motors of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and ...

War of Words at DEI:

after the first Gatroade Twin 125, Tony Eury Sr., #8-Dale Earnhardt's crew chief: "It looks like our teammate doesn't want to be our teammate no more. So we ended up dumping him at the end and going on to win. If that's the way they want to play it, that's the way ...

Newman the Chosen One:

Ryan Newman, who led NASCARÃÂÃÂs premier series in wins and poles last season en route to a sixth-place finish in the championship, has been voted the preseason No. 1 in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series by motorsports media. Newman, the 26-year-old Indiana native who...

Daytona News and Notes:

Competitors will be racing for the largest purse in the history of the NASCAR Busch Series when the green flag falls on the Feb. 14 Hersheys Kisses 300 at Daytona International Speedway. Up for grabs will be a total of $2,197,278, nearly $200,000 more than the 2003...

#19 / #97 may be fined:

Jeremy Mayfield's #19 team and Kurt Busch's #97 team are likely to be penalized further for infractions found by Nextel Cup officials, series director John Darby said. The rear deck lid on Mayfield's car failed to fit the template. Busch's car had a rear bumper support...