Strong Earnhardt effort cut short at Daytona - finally a nice story from NOL Archived Message Posted by mary4jr88 on 2/21/2011, 8:13 pm DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Few drivers had a more active Speedweeks than Dale Earnhardt Jr. There was a crash in the season-opening Budweiser Shootout last weekend, a crash in practice Wednesday that forced him into a backup car, and a crash in the final laps of Sunday's Daytona 500. Yet what kept NASCAR's most popular driver from winning NASCAR's biggest event was something far more mundane. A flat tire forced Earnhardt to pit road with one lap remaining in the regulation distance, placing him back in traffic when he was collected in a four-car accident on the first attempt at a green-white-checkered finish. Earnhardt was in the top five and vying for the victory when he radioed to crew chief Steve Letarte that the left-rear was going down, and wound up with a 24th-place finish despite having one of the stronger cars in the field..... Link: http://www.nascar.com/news/110221/dearnhardtjr-daytona-crash/index.html Message Thread: Strong Earnhardt effort cut short at Daytona - finally a nice story from NOL - mary4jr88 2/21/2011, 8:13 pm Re: Strong Earnhardt effort cut short at Daytona - finally a nice story from NOL - grmac 2/22/2011, 7:41 am Thanks for the link - printergonebad 2/21/2011, 9:19 pm   Searching