No. 4 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is still the best driver at Hendrick Motorsports this year. And he still hasn't won a race yet.
That could change at Texas Motor Speedway.
Earnhardt Jr. won the Cup race at Texas in his rookie season with Dale Earnhardt Inc. That was eight years ago.
But it looked like Hendrick Motorsports turned things around at Martinsville last week. All four drivers, even Casey Mears, finished in the top 10. Jeff Gordon was the highest of the four, in second, and Earnhardt Jr. was sixth.
The car his team is bringing to Texas is the same one Earnhardt Jr. had at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he finished second.
"I do enjoy running at Texas," said Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. "The past few times out there we really didn't run as well as we wanted to. That was the track where I got my first win. Typically, the tracks where drivers get their first wins are tracks they always run well at. Not sure why, but I guess if you know what it takes to get a win, you always have that in your mind."
His past two races at Texas haven't been that great. He was 36th in the fall race and 14th in the spring race at Texas last year.
"We have struggled there as of late, but hopefully with the new Chevy Impala SS program, and the way we have run on those mile-and-a-half tracks as of late, we can turn things around," Earnhardt Jr. said.



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