Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished a disappointing 14th on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway after running in the top 10 for most of the day, which left him a bit frustrated.
NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Frustrated Team Didn’t Get Michigan Finish It Deserved
Still, the Hendrick Motorsports driver is still in ninth place and 30 points inside the Chase with three races to go. Here’s what he told reporters afterward, via Chevrolet:
On his race:
We had a good car. We had a couple of bad sets – well, I don’t know whether they are bad sets of tires, but I put them on my car and they drive like crap. Then I put on another set and it will drive good. I don’t know how to explain that. I’ve been doing that all my life. I ain’t got an explanation for it yet.
I had some awesome runs where the car was really fast, then I’d put on some tires and couldn’t drive the car. So, you tell me. I don’t know.
On his frustration:
Well racing is frustrating as a whole. That’s a part of this sport. At least we run good when we had our opportunities. We had a pretty good car. We had some bad stuff happen on pit road. We got back up to 10th or ninth, drove it up there.
Then, we probably shouldn’t have pitted there at the end. I don’t know. We took two tires like a lot of guys and just didn’t have the good fortune at the end on that last green-white-checkered. We were on the bottom behind (David Reutimann) and some other people that were as slow as hell and just couldn’t go nowhere.
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