How will the DEI car of Martin Truex Jr. perform?
Dale Earnhardt Jr. didn’t test all that well last week and admitted he doesn’t expect to be a threat for the Daytona 500 pole. “I’m pretty happy,” he said. “I anticipated that we might struggle a little bit in qualifying. I think we’ll draft fine and race well. “I thought that we might not qualify well, but we might. Still a long way to go. We really don’t have the car tied down or in the proper trim. We’ve got a lot of tape on the grill, but that didn’t seem to do much. When you tape the grill off, a lot of the air that you keep from going in the radiator goes over the roof and hit the blades so, you get slowed down by that air one way or another. “But I’m pretty happy. From the look of the cars we have together I’m happy. The craftsmanship is really good. I’ll know what kind of team we have after we get done with this and then go to California and Las Vegas.” How will the cars perform in the colder weather? Last weeks temperatures here were absolutely balmy. The humidity was up and t
