Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/a> brought back a fan favorite. At the CARS Tour race at Anderson Motor Speedway, he ran a Late Model Stock Car with the famous \u201cbaseball car\u201d paint scheme. The design first appeared in his 2001 Pepsi 400 win at Daytona. Its return was tied to the MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol earlier this month.<\/p>\nThat victory in 2001 came just months after Dale Sr.\u2019s passing. For Earnhardt Jr., the paint scheme carries heavy meaning. \u201cIt might be the biggest moment, or the heaviest, the most emotional moment in my career,\u201d he said. The red-and-white Budweiser car, marked by baseball stitching, brought fans right back to that moment of closure.<\/p>\n
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The baseball car originally ran only once. It won and became a lasting part of NASCAR\u2019s story. This time, it appeared on a short track. Earnhardt Jr., now co-owner of the CARS Tour, finished 10th in the event. Still, the throwback scheme stole the spotlight. Fans saw not just a car, but a piece of history back on the track.<\/p>\n
The return does not end there. Lionel Racing and JR Nation released a die-cast model of the car for collectors. For Earnhardt Jr., the scheme blends past and present. It keeps alive a story that still matters to NASCAR fans. The baseball car is back, and so is the memory it carries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2016, NASCAR first introduced participation limits for full-time Cup Series drivers racing in the Xfinity and Truck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1466,41523,1457,1456,1446,65915,1449,1460,6036,1441,45362,1462,1459,1461,1442,1443,20932,1458,65916,425,1451,1465,1467,1463,1445,1453,45355,99,2952,62248,6035,1464,1444,6034,1435],"class_list":["post-97884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-1466","tag-20er","tag-am","tag-auf","tag-besatzung","tag-bristols","tag-der","tag-foto","tag-fur","tag-gesprachen","tag-getrs","tag-ikone","tag-im","tag-indem","tag-mit","tag-mitglieder","tag-motorischer","tag-motorradrennbahn","tag-nahrungs","tag-nascar","tag-nascars","tag-nur","tag-quer","tag-redaktionelle","tag-seinem","tag-serie","tag-settember","tag-sports","tag-stadt","tag-talchen","tag-ueben","tag-verwendung","tag-vom","tag-wahrend","tag-x0x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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