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    Dale Earnhardt Jr. Says Team's Qualifying Results Must Improve In Chase Archived Message

    Posted by Heatho on 9/23/2011, 11:38 am

    Dale Earnhardt Jr. Says Team's Qualifying Results Must Improve In Chas

    Before he qualified for last week's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Chicagoland, Dale Earnhardt Jr. pulled out a piece of paper and a pen.

    He looked up each of his qualifying results for the 2011 season, and wrote them down all on one sheet. And it was ugly.

    With the exception of the restrictor-plate tracks and two good runs at Michigan, every one of Earnhardt Jr.'s qualifying efforts for this year has been outside the top 15. And many have been outside the top 25.

    "That's terrible," Earnhardt Jr. said.

    So why'd he write all of his qualifying results down? For motivation.

    "Just to get 'em right there in front of me," he said. "Just to see how poor we'd been doing."

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