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Wiser bud: after wholesale changes to his team in the offseason, a smarter and calmer Dale Earnhardt Jr. is expected to take his game to another level.(NASCAR 2005 Preview)(National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing)(Interview)
Publication: The Sporting News Publication Date: 25-FEB-05 Author: Spencer, Lee
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Sporting News Publishing Co.
Like any rock star, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was fashionably late when he arrived for the media mixer at the Sunset Marquis Hotel and Villas in West Hollywood, Calif. First, there were broadcast commitments. Then came a luncheon with Golden State writers, who were more concerned with what was going on 10 miles to the east at Staples Center, where Rudy Tomjanovich had resigned as coach of the Lakers.
The scene was appropriate. In the City of Angels, the second-largest city in the United States, the ways to occupy your time and money are as diverse as its denizens.
So when NASCAR needed a driver to sell the Southern California market on spending disposable income on stock car racing, a regular A-lister wouldn't do. Even a fairly big gun wouldn't get a ripple in the press. No, NASCAR had to unleash Junior, its weapon of mass seduction.
Once the reporters realized sipping French onion soup with Earnhardt was more like shooting the...
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