Dale Jr Uninjured in Darlington Practice Crash
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. will require a backup car for the Southern 500 following a brush with the Turn 2 wall during practice Friday.
“At Darlington, due to fact that we hit the wall here a lot in the race, every car puts a 4×4 square piece of lumber in the side,” Junior explained. “I hit the wall really hard.”“It knocked breath out of me, moved that lumber, knocked the cage out of the car.”
That’s the main part of the chassis. We might have to make a show car out of this one. I don’t know really what happened other than I ran out of racetrack. I got up out of the groove, hit the fence. It happens.”
The backup car is one Earnhardt has run multiple times in the past, but has yet to race in 2004. Due to a qualifying rainout, he’ll start third Sunday.
