"We had a few (great restarts), yeah, I mean I watched that No.
88 team deserves a lot of credit for giving Earnhardt a Chevrolet that could battle it out with the other stout Chevys of Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr.Ī good car is nothing without a good driver, though, and Junior showed late that restarts are quickly becoming his bread and butter as he picked up a few tips from a somewhat unlikely source. The heavy skies above Kansas Speedway and a green, rubber-free track wouldn’t naturally make for a situation in which a loose race car had a shot, so the No. "We thought we had a good car and we about screwed it up," he continued on pit road after the race. "We finally figured it out and all the guys back home gave us the tools to get it done." Our is loooose!😳 The guys are tuning on it and we will keep looking for the right fix. We were in big trouble when the race started," said Earnhardt, who, out of the top 10 at the time, tweeted: 48 Chevrolet of Johnson.Įven though the 88 would slip behind Johnson’s eventual race-winning car - maybe you could say he was just trying to let his race shop teammate pick up his record 23rd win on a 1.5-mile track - Junior came away from a rain-soaked Kansas happy, as a third-place finish was looking like a long shot before a two-hour rain delay interrupted the race.
The answer was no, but it made for an interesting story line in Saturday’s SpongeBob SquarePants 400 at Kansas Speedway, when Earnhardt lined up next to his teammate on the front row for the final restart with six to go, and appeared to have the edge at first on the No. 88 will be in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup this fall? Following Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s victory at Talladega Superspeedway, much of the conversation toiled around a hot topic - Did Jimmie Johnson ease off and let his teammate win in order to all-but-secure the No.
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RELATED: Full race results | Series standings | Chase Grid Mercedes took a bitter blow to their morale when Lewis Hamilton was denied an eighth title in controversial circumstances at last year’s season finale, according to a pivotal member of the team.Earnhardt Jr.: ‘We were in big trouble when the race started’ He will have no fears of opening his full-time drive with Mercedes at the circuit where he made such an impression two years ago. Russell was second on the grid at the Bahrain International Circuit in his first drive for Mercedes and having taken the lead was entirely in command of the race and set for a win until a team pitstop error and then a puncture denied him the top spot. He also proved entirely confident in stepping up to the big stage when he stood in for Hamilton, who had contracted Covid, at the Sakhir Grand Prix in 2020. He was outstanding in wet conditions to take second on the grid at Spa last year and similarly in taking third in qualifying for last year’s Russian GP. Russell impressed during his three seasons with Williams, repeatedly outperforming the car which was mired at the back of the grid. It’s funny when I look at it now that I am lining up alongside Lewis.” “When you’re a kid you believe they are superheroes. He has been part of the Mercedes junior driver programme since 2017 and toward the end of last season Mercedes signed him to a race seat to replace Valtteri Bottas, a move he admits his younger self would have found hard to believe. Russell began karting when he was eight in 2006 and a year later Hamilton made his debut in F1. We are all here to win, and beating your teammate is not the sole goal for any of us.”
If we start battling internally, trying to be secretive about set-ups, it’s not going to benefit anybody. “We both recognise we need to work together to push forward because our competition isn’t with each other, it is against Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren. “There is really good respect between Lewis and I,” he said. With Mercedes on the back foot, their car suffering from the “porpoising” downforce problem on straights causing the car to bounce violently, Russell insisted the pair were committed to working together as they face strong opposition. You’re going up against the greatest of all time who has beaten everybody.
“It’s incredibly exciting that I find myself in a win-win scenario. Lewis has nothing to prove, he is statistically the greatest driver of all time, I think he wants me to succeed and he truly wants to help me,” he said. “We are at different stages of our careers. He is highly rated and expected to present a genuine challenge to Hamilton but views their relationship as collaborative rather than combative. Hamilton has multiple championships and is entering his 16th season in F1 and has been world champion seven times, while Russell is very much at the start of his career.
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