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No. 88 team can’t get a handle on Earnhardt’s car Posted:0535hrs By Reid Spencer, The Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service FORT WORTH, Texas -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. started from the pole for Sunday’s Samsung 500 and led 31 laps in the early going, but adjustments intended to improve the handling of his No. 88 Chevrolet failed to achieve the desired effects.
On Lap 267, race winner Carl Edwards passed Earnhardt heading into Turn 1 to put him a lap down. Earnhardt salvaged a 12th-place finish and held fourth place in the points standings, but it was a frustrating day for the driver who won his first NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway eight years ago. --(Cont'd From Front Page)-- “We just chased the handling of the car the entire day,” Earnhardt said. “We had it too tight at the end there. It’s frustrating. Just a thousandth of an inch adjustment can just mess things up. We went back and forth all day long.” Crew chief Tony Eury Jr. was just as frustrated with his attempts to dial in the car. “It was a pretty rough day out there for us,” Eury said. “Started off, we were way too loose off the corner and in the corner, so we did a couple of adjustments to kind of fix that. It made things better, but pretty much just kept getting tighter in the center (of the corners). Then we made a pretty huge adjustment to try to go toward what the No. 48 (Jimmie Johnson) had, and it kind of backfired on us. By that time we were a lap down, and it was too late. “Right at the very end of the race, we did something and it really helped a ton. It was just a matter of it was too late then. We can always put that into our files, and we’ll know what to do next time.”
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