Will Dale Earnhardt Jr. Get His Groove Back with the New Car?

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has been a bit like a fish out of water with the Car of Tomorrow (COT) that was raced in NASCAR's premier series from 2007 through 2012. Now the game changes with the Gen-6 car that harkens back to his best days of racing. While testing the new car at Charlotte in December, Earnhardt expressed his enthusiasm about the new car while also making his feelings known about its predecessor, the COT. He stated, "The COT was just frustrating for me. I never really connected with that car from the beginning. Just personally, I didn't like the car. I didn't appreciate it for what it was." Junior added, in reference to the new car, "I like it already leaps and bounds beyond the COT, the old car that we ran. This car reall...

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