Road-course specialists will be out in force

USA TODAY, June, 2008 by Seth Livingstone

Answers to pressing questions heading into Sunday's Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Infineon Raceway by USA TODAY's Seth Livingstone:

What does Dale Earnhardt Jr. do for an encore?

After his first victory in 77 Cup races, Earnhardt heads to another track where he has never won, the 1.99-mile road course in Sonoma, Calif.

In his favor: Earnhardt is running as well as any other driver in NASCAR, with 11 top-10 finishes in the 15 races this year, and remains third in the standings.

Working against him: Earnhardt has never finished better than 11th in eight starts at Infineon, where in 2004 he had a fiery crash in a Corvette during an American Le Mans Series practice.

"We ran decent (last year) and finished 13th,"...