Earnhardt Slip May Jeopardize Nextel Lead
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. was strangely subdued after his latest victory at Talladega Superspeedway.
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(Daytona Beach, Florida-AP) Oct. 5, 2004 - A slip of the tongue has cost Dale Earnhardt, Junior, first place in the Nextel Cup standings.
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The exuberant utterance of a four-letter word could end up costing Dale Earnhardt Jr., stock-car racing&#39;s most popular driver, his first NASCAR championship and has touched off
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. lost his appeal of a 25-point penalty and $10,000 fine for using a vulgarity during a postrace TV interview. Instead of leading the Nextel Cup standings Monday by a point with five races to go, Earnhardt trails Kurt Busch by 24 points.
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TALLADEGA, Ala. - Dale Earnhardt Jr. was nearly perfect on the racetrack. His only slipup Sunday came during a postrace television interview.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. pulled away from Jeff Gordon in a pair of overtime laps to win the NASCAR Nextel Cup race yesterday at Phoenix International Raceway, tightening the championship chase with two races to go.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. cursed on a nationally televised NASCAR broadcast on Sunday, and it cost him the lead in a close race for the Nextel Cup drivers championship.
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The confidence Dale Earnhardt Jr. conveyed last month in Pocono, Pa., about his chances of making the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Championship went up in a white plume of engine smoke here in Saturday night's Chevy Rock &amp; Roll 400. It was replaced by shock, anger, frustration, and, in the end, acceptance of his fate as ...
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. wants to win championships, and there's no better place to do that than at Hendrick Motorsports. The most frenzied free agency in NASCAR history will end Wednesday when Earnhardt reveals where he'll drive next season, and all signs point to Rick Hendrick's elite organization.
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AVONDALE, ARIZ. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. lost the argument, but won the race. Earnhardt&#39;s crew chief ordered the driver to stay on the track and pass up a tire change late in yesterday&#39;s NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is back on top of the points standings for the first time in three months. How long he can stay there remains to be seen.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. wants NASCAR to change its punishment for swearing on television and radio broadcasts before another driver commits a similar slip of the tongue.
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Tony Stewart once said he should be fired if he failed to make NASCAR's Chase for the championship. If his car owners take him up on the offer, the two-time and defending Nextel Cup champion could be looking for work.
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AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#39;s victory Sunday in the Checker Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, his second straight at the track, softened the emotional blow he suffered a week ago when he crashed late in a race near Atlanta.
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A slip of the tongue may cost Dale  Earnhardt Jr. the NASCAR drivers title after officials fined  him $10,000 and 25 points in the Cup standings Tuesday for  uttering a profanity during a post-race interview.
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It was what every NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver competing in the Chase for the Championship feared - a DNF (Did Not Finish). A poor finish with the accompanying
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Robby Gordon is not in a position to become a timid racer even though wrecking another championship contender probably would enhance his standing as NASCAR&#39;s villain of the moment.