By Sarah Handy, Staff Writer
MIAMI, FL — As Dale Earnhardt Jr., entered Miami, Florida on Thursday for his broadcast duties for NBC Sports this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway he tweeted out that Homestead will be the lone race track that Earnhardt runs his one race for JR Motorsports in the No. 8 Chevrolet in March of 2020.
JR Motorsports announced their 2020 driver lineup for the No. 8 Chevrolet on Wednesday indicating that Earnhardt Jr would run one race, Jeb Burton would run in 11 races and Daniel Hemric would run 21 races next season.
Now, the racing world knows which race Earnhardt will be behind the wheel for.
A majority of Earnhardt’s starts at the 1.5-mile track located in South Florida have come in the Cup Series where he has 17 starts with one top-five and two top-ten finishes. Earnhardt’s best finish in NASCAR’s top series at the track was a third-place finish in 2013 for Hendrick Motorsports.
In NASCAR Xfinity Series competition, Earnhardt has five starts with one top-five and three top-ten finishes with a best finish of second coming 20 years ago during the 1999 season when Earnhardt piloted the No. 3 AC Delco Chevrolet for Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
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In 2019, Earnhardt ran the NASCAR Xfinity Series Sports Clip Haircuts VFW 200 at Darlington Raceway with a Hellman’s Throwback scheme on board his No. 8 Chevrolet which he drove to a solid fifth-place finish.