All the talk this past week — shoot, the entire Sprint Cup season — of the need to split up Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his crew chief\/cousin, Tony Eury Jr., obscures two noteworthy facts:<\/p>\n
First, Earnhardt is a mere 66 points out 12th place, the final Chase-eligible position, and second, there are 21 races before the field for the Chase is set in September at Richmond.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, team owner Rick Hendrick made it clear on a national teleconference he was not going to split up the two juniors. “I am 100 percent behind this group,” Hendrick said. “I have no intentions of making any…\u00c2\u00a0 Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n All the talk this past week — shoot, the entire Sprint Cup season — of the need to split up Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his crew chief\/cousin, Tony Eury Jr., obscures two noteworthy facts: First, Earnhardt is a mere 66 points out 12th place, the final Chase-eligible position, and second, there are 21 races before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}