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Article: EARNHARDT FAITHFUL TURNING TO DALE JR.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 3, 2001
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His souvenir sales are skyrocketing. His name on the public-address system elicits the loudest cheer. Fans are packed outside his race truck 20 deep - easily the largest crowd in the garage area.
Like father, like son.
Ready or not, like it or not, second-year Winston Cup driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has ascended his late father's popularity throne.
Dale Jr. has tried to keep a low profile since Feb. 18, the day his father was killed on the final lap of the Daytona 500. He has kept his mourning private while quietly going about the business of racing - qualifying the No. 8 Chevy owned by his father 32nd for the UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 ...