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- Updated: May 1, 2016
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. had his second consecutive early exit in a restrictor-plate race this season following two incidents in Sunday’s GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
After dominating restrictor-plate tracks last season with chassis No. 872, known as “Amelia,” things have not gone well for Earnhardt Jr. and the car in points paying races this year. In a similar incident that relegated him to a 36th-place finish in the season opening Daytona 500, Earnhardt was forced to the garage on lap 50 at Talladega with heavy damage to his No. 88 Chevrolet. The incident happened when Earnhardt got loose racing in Turn 2 and the car turned and collected his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kasey Kahne. “The splitter was on the ground real bad the whole first run and we took …
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