38 For Junior?

I thought about this myself but figured there was no way he could get the number. I think it would make a lot of the Junior fans who jumped ship to Junior after Dale, Sr. died happy. They could merge all of their stuff… but from Jayski:

RYR asked NASCAR to transfer the #38 to Hendrick for Dale Jr.: SPEED’s Bob Dilner reported on Sunday’s SPEED report that Robert Yates Racing has asked NASCAR if they could transfer the #38 to Hendrick Motorsports in 2008 for Dale Eanrhardt Jr. to use, the #3 in honor of his father, the late Dale Earnhardt, who ran the #3 [a few races in 1981 and then from 1984 until the 2001 Daytona 500 and won 6 of his 7 championships using #3] and the #8 of course is Dale Jr.’s car #8 since he came into the sport. No word what number David Gilliland would switch to, but RYR still has the license on the #28, last used in 2002 with Ricky Rudd and has used the #90 in the past.(8-27-2007)

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Teresa Earnhardt made ‘ridiculous’ requests for #8

I think the picture on the right says it all for me. My comments, of course, are in parentheses… but according to ESPN (via Jayski):

Dale Earnhardt Jr. blames his step-mother Teresa Earnhardt, the owner of Dale Earnhardt Inc., for not allowing the #8 to move with him to Hendrick Motorsports next season. “She either feels too personal about the number, or the rift between me and her is too personal (aka… she’s a bitch!),” Earnhardt Jr. said Saturday. “I’m not going to sit here and get personal about this. It’s upsetting as hell and unfortunate, but that’s just what happens sometimes.” (He’s not getting personal… yet he’s talking about it. Bitch shouldn’t have opened her mouth to the NY Times) Earnhardt Jr. said he never believed he would get the number when he made the decision to leave DEI at the end of this season (of course… hell would have frozen over). “I’m not really all that surprised,” he said. “I knew I wasn’t going to get the number a long time ago.” (more…)

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6.7? I don’t think so… Come on Hendrick!

There is nothing keeping Hendrick Motorsports from buying the #8 from Dale Earnhardt Inc. as long as NASCAR approves the transfer of the number. While NASCAR owns all numbers and issues them to organizations on an annual basis, teams sell numbers all the time. NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said it is unlikely the governing body would prevent such a transfer, adding the financial terms are not a concern.(ESPN.com)(7-2-2007)

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