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Uncle pressdog’s Fireside Chat – Daytona 500 & Butt Hurt Edition

Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins at Daytona

I got 43 minutes before the day job starts to muse on all things Daytona weekend. Pull up some super dark roast and … go.

Dale June-yer – Dale Earnhardt Jr. won. So there’s that. Insert spasms around the Internets plus momentary brown-outs of Twitter. Dale has legions of fans … “Junior Nation” … so I feel good for them. It's a win that probably launched 12,012 tattoos.

It’s hard not to like Dale, frankly. The guy rarely pisses on other people, especially by race car driver standards. I know Jr. is popular, as evidenced by my not living in a cave, but I haven't studied very closely the origins of said popularity. I think the whole blue-collar guy thing is in there, which, as the son of an auto mechanic, I appreciate a lot. How much of his fandom is due to his late father, Dale Sr., is hard to say.

Uncle pressdog’s Fireside Chat: Simona de Silvestro Leaving, Danica Patrick Staying, Richard Petty Talking Edition

Yo yo yo. Welcome to Tuesday. I got an hour before the day job starts, so pull up some super dark roast (NO ROOM FOR CREAM) and let’s discuss.

About a week ago, we learned that Woman of pressdog® Simona De Silvestro has left IndyCar to join the Sauber F1 team. She’ll use this year to prepare in anticipation of a shot at running F1 in 2015. Here’s one of many stories with the details.