JUNIOR CLEANS UP.(Competition)
AutoWeek, February, 2004
As if winning the Day- tona 500 wasn't cool enough (his words), Dale Earnhardt Jr. returned 20 hours later to win the rain-interrupted Hershey's Busch Series 300. Junior became only the fourth driver to sweep the 300-500 weekend at Daytona International Speedway, joining Lee Roy Yarbrough (1969), Bobby Allison (1988) and Darrell Waltrip (1989).
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His third straight 300 win in a Chevrolet came over fellow Cup drivers Johnny Sauter in a Pontiac, Robby Gordon and Kevin Harvick in Chevys, and Matt Kenseth in a Ford. The 120-lap race began on Saturday, was stopped by rain after 31 laps and ...
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