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By: Michelle R. Martinelli | October 10, 2017 10:14 am Follow @MMartinelli4
NASCAR advance and admirers accept begin appropriate means to pay accolade to Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s two decades in antagonism afore the No. 88 Chevrolet disciplinarian retires from full-time antagonism at the end of this season.
Brad Keselowski capital in too.
Keselowski has again accustomed Earnhardt with allowance barrage his career aback in 2007, back Keselowski began active for JR Motorsports in the XFINITY Series. It was a change that the now-No. 2 Ford disciplinarian said “changed my life” in a contempo access on his blog.
So to account his friend, adolescent disciplinarian and above employer, Keselowski’s acrylic arrangement for Sunday’s Alabama 500 at Talladega Superspeedway will account Earnhardt as a bequest to his canicule active the No. 88 car for Junior’s team.
Earlier this season, Keselowski declared Earnhardt’s aboriginal advice – which additionally included giving the Michigan built-in a abode to alive in North Carolina abreast JR Motorsports’ boutique – a decade ago as “real altruism.”
Keselowski, the 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion, said he doesn’t apperceive what administration his career would accept gone in after Earnhardt. In his newest blog access Monday, he wrote:
Dale Jr. is one of a kind, and addition we can all be appreciative to be associated with. Most competitors aren’t necessarily apprehensive by nature. His abasement absolutely set him afar in a lot of ways. He has a massive fanbase (sic), a ton of sponsors, and fabricated a ton of money. But he never bragged about what he had, or what he had accomplished. He’s never been that way. I’ve consistently absolutely admired him for that.
The No. 2 Ford disciplinarian – who is one of the 12 actual drivers aggressive for the Cup Series championship – additionally reposted his aboriginal blog entry, which was about Earnhardt. But he capital to say article to him first.
Dale, there’s not a agnosticism in my apperception that you’ll excel at whatever it is you do next, but it’s not activity to be the aforementioned out there after you. I’m activity to absence antagonism adjoin you, my friend. I’m activity to absence seeing you out there in the 88 on Sundays.
Read Keselowski’s accomplished blog access about Earnhardt at bradracing.com.
