Should Dillion be running the No. 3 in the Truck Series?
Let’s just start this by looking at each question one at a time. First: Should the No. 3 be retired? Some say it should, due to the Earnhardt connection. Though others say it shouldn’t for other reasons. “There’s a guy somewhere whose daddy raced No. 3 forever on some short track, and it probably means as much to him as it does to me,” Earnhardt Jr. said in a NASCAR.com article in 2004. “You’ve got to be fair about those type of things. I understand that, and I don’t have a problem with it coming back one day.” Another reason to not retire it is the No. 3 isn’t the only number that holds a lot of history for what it stands for. If you retire the No. 3, don’t you have to retire the No. 43 due to Richard Petty? There are only so many numbers out there so if you start retiring numbers, sooner or later you’re going to run out of numbers to run. Though looking at the number and NASCAR, Earnhardt isn’t the only driver to have driven that number. Back in 1975, John Soares Jr., Charlie Glotzba
