Full Throttle

I have long believed - if fall of 2004 can be considered long - that something is rotten over at Teresa’s toy DEI and not afraid to express it. In fact I believe Dale Earnhardt Jr’s first steps away from DEI were when he formed the JR Motorsports Busch team.

That has led to some debate and alot of hate mail mostly of the deranged variety. You know the type, they contain all the logic and factuality of the Tasmanian Devil on crack.

That aside it seems I’m not alone in my DEI assessment and have a new roommate for my padded cell. Welcome Larry McReynolds, you can hang your straight jacket on the hook behind the door:

“I don’t know the whole story, but I was told was that Earnhardt attempted to try to do a program with DEI for JR Motorsports. They kept hemming and hawing and wouldn’t really give them an answer. Finally, the sands in the hourglass were running, and Earnhardt was trying to run the final race of 2005 at Homestead. He finally had to do something. In a very short time, like hours, he put a program together with Childress.”

“In my opinion, it’s a perfect example that Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s time at DEI is short. There’s such a separation between him and the management/ownership structure, and you can’t have success when you’ve got that separation. As Darrell Waltrip has taught me, there’s always more to the story. But the handwriting is on the wall that Earnhardt will not be there for his entire career.”

Family life, isn’t it wonderful?

And BTW Larry, you’re in luck. The attendants said tonight’s dinner is beans and wienies. You arrived just in time for the best the Home for Wayward NASCAR Pundits has to offer.