It was hold-your-breath time for the final five laps at Talladega Superspeedway for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 Chevrolet, but he held on for his sixth victory at NASCAR’s biggest and fastest oval on Sunday. Earnhardt was strong the entire 188 laps of the GEICO 500 and was able to hold off Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson in the No. 48 Chevrolet in what was one of the most competitive restrictor-plate races in recent memory. If only NASCAR could bottle what the drivers did at Talladega on Sunday for the ubiquitous 1.5-mile speedways that dominate the Sprint Cup schedule. It certainly was a subdued and unusually emotional Earnhardt in Victory Lane afterwards,...
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