Full Throttle

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s deep slump this season reached the breaking point Thursday as team owner Rick Hendrick replaced Tony Eury Jr., chew chief and cousin of NASCAR’s most popular driver.

Hendrick named Lance McGrew, who has worked with several NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series drivers over the years, as Earnhardt’s interim crew chief starting with the Cup race at Pocono Raceway on June 7.

Brian Whitesell, manager of Earnhardt’s #88 Chevrolet team, will call the race this weekend at Dover, Hendrick said. Eury was reassigned to Hendrick Motorsports’ R&D Center.

Is the train wreck over?

Time will tell, we’ll see but in the meantime those calling for Tony Jr’s scalp can be happy, assuming they have that ability in the first place.

The reality is who cares? Crew Chiefs come, and they go.

More often they go and like baseball and football managers/coaches for the most part are recycled into the same job somewhere else. I’d bet Tony Jr. does a “Joe Torre” who spent years as an also-ran in charge of the Mets and Braves then became The Manager as the Yankee skipper producing over a decade of championships.

There’s more important things in life than one crew chief from a group of 43 getting the axe.

Things like pondering the possibility the creme filling in a Bavarian Creme donut isn’t the same from one to the next. It’s an under-reported scandal near as I can tell.

Why Dwayne Bigger doesn’t jump over pit walls has me puzzled as well.

But that’s just me and will admit I’m easily entertained.