Earnhardt to race in V8 Supercars

Dale Earnhardt Jr. plans to have a little fun after the 2008 NASCAR season ends. Earnhardt will drive a Holden Commodore at final round of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series (which is like Nationwide Series for the V8 Supercars) at Oran Park in Australia. Earnhardt will team up with Scotts Loadsman and drive the car that Steve Owen has driven all season, Owen will have a new car at the Oran Park round.

�I know that Dale Earnhardt Jnr wanted to drive in the last race and Paul Morris is organising for him to come out,� said Loadsman. �That�s confirmed.
�We�ve already got the car from Morris, we got the sister car to �Earnhardt�� we bought �Gidget�. So he�s going to drive in the last race out there so he�ll probably drive that [Earnhardt] car.�

The race weekend will take place on December 4-7.

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JR Motorsports to Cup?

JR Motorsports started its Nationwide Series program just a couple of years ago, but owner Dale Earnhardt, Jr figures the team may be ready to make the jump to Sprint Cup if the right opportunities arose.

�I used to say no way, no way. But it�s almost as expensive to run in the Nationwide Series. And their going to bring a CoT in and we won�t be able to race in the Nationwide Series with the CoT probably. That�ll just be too expensive to switch all that over,� Earnhardt said at weekly top 12 drivers press conference. �If the right opportunity comes along with the right sponsorship and driver, we�d love to do it. And it would cost the same amount of money to do that, as it is to run the Nationwide Series. It�s harder to get sponsorships. And the CoT program is going to be too expensive for me to justify creating a whole new program with CoT stuff, so I�d just as soon go into the Cup Series or get out of the Nationwide Series altogether.�

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