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THE COMEBACK; After a nasty Vegas race, Dale Earnhardt Jr. triumphs.(Competition)
Byline: AL PEARCE
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has not been doing this for long, but he has mastered the art of saying the right thing at the right time. After doing well in the first two races, his team stunk up Vegas. Then rallying to win the next race near Atlanta, the kid nailed it.
"We went from hero to zero and back to hero,'' he said. "It was quite a roller-coaster ride.''
So it was. He won at Daytona Beach and was fifth at Rockingham, but was pitiful in Las Vegas. The Budweiser Chevrolet wouldn't handle in a 40-acre field and its driver was almost waved off for being too slow. The crew went home confused and dispirited, but didn't stay that way. They endured a grueling test in Kentucky the day before Atlanta opened, then qualified seventh for the Golden Corral 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. After some chassis fiddling during the afternoon, Earnhardt Jr. led the final 16 laps and won by almost five seconds.
"Last week was as bad as it ever gets,'' Junior said after this year's second win, the 11th of his 151-start career and his first at AMS. "It was just so hard to go home and face your friends. Everybody on the team said they were sick of hearing questions about what was wrong with the car. I told them I'd heard it all week because you can't get away from it. I'm really proud of how we responded.''
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