Reports: Dale Jr. may be headed to RCR

FOXSports.com
Posted: 2 hours ago



Junior may not be a free agent for long.



After announcing Thursday that he would leave Dale Earnhardt Inc. at the end of the year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. could announce Friday that he will join Richard Childress Racing in 2008, according to FOX8 WGHP in Greensboro/High Point, N.C.

Childress has scheduled a news conference Friday at Darlington Raceway, site of the Nextel Cup Dodge Avenger 500 (Saturday, 7 p.m. ET on FOX).

Rather than drive the No. 3 car that his father, Dale Earnhardt, made famous for RCR, Earnhardt Jr. would drive the No. 33 car, according to the report. Budweiser would follow Junior from DEI to the new team.

Another FOX affiliate, FOX25 in Boston, reported that Earnhardt Jr. finalized a deal with RCR on Thursday night and that an announcement would come soon.

If the reports are accurate, NASCAR's most popular driver will partner up with Richard Childress, the same man for whom Dale Earnhardt Sr. starting driving in 1981.

Childress and Earnhardt Sr. won six Nextel Cup championships before Earnhardt was killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.

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Wonder how Harry Gant would fill about the 33 car coming back on a regular basis.

If I'm not mistaken, Kerry Earnhardt has run the 33 a couple of times.

 

Childress said they havent even talked yet...
so someone didnt know what they was talking about... in Boston

 

Same story came out of Greensboro (Fox 8). Boston has to follow racing now that Fenway bought into Roush--anything the Red Sox do is news...same goes for their ownership.

 

Gary Thorne

 

take that comment to the Baseball forum....(he was in Baltimore at the time BTW)