By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher
NASCAR Superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the 11th driver to win multiple Daytona 500s. Yet, he is the 4th to do it with multiple teams.
The 2004 win came with the Earnhardt racing team, Dale Earnhardt Inc., led by his estranged stepmother Teresa Earnhardt. In 2008, he signed with Rick Hendrick – and this is his biggest win since signing that deal.
Before last night’s historic win, he had just two wins since 2008.
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Both of those wins came at Michigan International Speedway. The first one came in June 2008, then Junior snapped a 154-race winless streak at the same race track in June 2012.
The win last night snapped a 55-race winless streak since the June 2012 win.
When Earnhardt Jr. won in the National Guard/AMP Energy entry in 2008, he won the Lifelock 400 and led 14 of the 203 laps. In 2012, he won the Quicken Loans 400 in the Diet Mountain Drew/Dark Knight Rises/National Guard entry and led 95 of the 200 laps.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. now has 20 career NASCAR Cup Series wins. However, he won the biggest race of the year twice — and will be remembered as a Daytona 500 winner.
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Before this win and the two Michigan wins, all of his previous wins came with the No. 8 and Budweiser sponsorship for Dale Earnhardt, Inc. He won the 2004 Daytona 500 on February 15th, 2004, in the Budweiser Born on Date entry where he led 58 of the 200 laps.
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