Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a scary impact himself Monday, when his car ran off the road, made contact with the vehicle of Reed Sorenson, and barreled through a gravel trap and into a tire barrier. Earnhardt said he applied the brakes on his No. 88 car entering Turn 3, and the pedal went straight to the floor.
“I ain’t never had the brakes just completely fail on a car like that, so that was really an experience,” said Earnhardt, who finished 39th and fell to 25th in points. “I’m glad the gravel trap did a little bit of work there, and worked fine in that tire barrier. But it’s been a tough year, man.”
“I guess if I sat there and thought about all the bad things and got further down, it would just be a longer time to get back, and you’ve just got to have some kind of positive thoughts and pull something out of it to keep you feeling like you’ve got a shot the next weekend and the next weekend. So we can’t give up. We can’t quit. We’ve just got to keep trying.”
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