That is because his 10 year exemption was up in 2010. Dale Jr. won the All-Star race back in 2000. The only other way he could have avoided getting in on votes alone was to win a Cup Series race in the prior or current year, or to finish either first or second in the Sprint Showdown on May 21st.
No, Dale Jr. did not win a race in 2011.
Yes, he did.
Yes. Dale Jr. is the late Dale Earnhardt Sr's son.
It is not a given that he will in fact win a race in 2011. Dale Jr. did not win a race in 2011.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has 18 Sprint Cup Series wins, and all fell in the time period between 1999 and 2011.
Dale Earnhardt Sr's daughter and Dale Earnhardt Jr's sister.
Yes. Dale Jr. started all 36 Nascar Sprint Cup races in 2011.
Dale Jr. finished 7th in the 2011 Nascar Sprint Cup Series standings.
Dale Earnhardt Jr does not smoke.
His father, Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Dale Earnhardt Sr's father was Ralph Lee Earnhardt and his mother is Martha Coleman.
Dale's father was a dirt racer and did not race with Jr, because he died before Jr was born. I want to know what his name was. Dale Earnhardt Sr's father was named Ralph Lee Earnhardt.