Earnhardt Jr. takes his turn, takes some shots

Family business the focus as driver meets with media at Dayton

You could turn Oprah, Dr. Phil and Jerry Springer all loose on the Earnhardt family business and there’d still be enough left to blow the Donald Trump-Rosie O’Donnell feud out of the water.

For several weeks, Teresa Earnhardt’s quote in the Wall Street Journal about her stepson’s focus – “Right now the ball's in his court to decide on whether he wants to be a NASCAR driver or whether he wants to be a public personality.” – has been hanging in the air.

Monday, Dale Earnhardt Jr. took his turn.

“I tried and tried not to comment on it,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “I was trying not to get involved in it.”

But there’s no way he couldn’t. His contract with Dale Earnhardt Inc. is up after the upcoming season, and until the sport’s most popular driver has a new contract no other story in the sport is bigger.

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