Junior’s Bad Day
It looked like it was going to be a good day for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. He started in the front row and held the lead for 41 laps of the Price Chopper 400 on Sunday, until a loose lug nut turned into a monkey wrench for the number 88 car. As Junior pulled away from a routine pit stop, the NASCAR official in the pit pointed emphatically to the tire left behind in pit row. The crew had not reattached one of the lug nuts on the left rear tire. In short order, the...