{"id":16842,"date":"2015-09-02T21:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16842"},"modified":"2015-09-02T21:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:31:42","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-driving-valvoline-throwback-at-darlington-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/09\/02\/dale-earnhardt-jr-driving-valvoline-throwback-at-darlington-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. driving Valvoline throwback at Darlington (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like so many other drivers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be driving a throwback paint scheme this weekend when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series hits Darlington Raceway.<\/p>\n

Earnhardt Jr’s car will look like the one driven by\u00a0 Cale Yarborough from 1981-82.<\/p>\n

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“The suit is just like his,” said Earnhardt. “And he had this (blue) color shoes. There’s a picture of him with his car at Daytona in the grass before the 500 and he’s wearing Carolina blue (shoes) — he doesn’t call ’em Carolina blue, being from Timmonsville — but they sort of match this part of the V (in the Valvoline logo); I think that’s what they were going for.”\"earnhardtthrow1\"<\/p>\n

While the paint scheme is being likened to the one driven by Yarborough, many will argue that it also looks a lot like the car driven by Mark Martin during his time driving the No. 6 Valvoline Ford Thunderbird.<\/p>\n

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With wins at Talladega and Daytona, the 40-year-old Earnhardt is locked into a Chase spot. In 20 starts at Darlington, Earnahrdt has yet to find victory lane but does have four finishes inside the top-five and an average finish of 14.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like so many other drivers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be driving a throwback paint scheme this weekend when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series hits Darlington Raceway. Earnhardt Jr’s car will look like the one driven by\u00a0 Cale Yarborough from 1981-82. “The suit is just like his,” said Earnhardt. “And he had this (blue) color shoes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[170,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}