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Earnhardt Jr.'s blown tire causes accident, will go to backup car

By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

Friday, October 3, 2008

TALLADEGA, Ala. _ Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a tire explode during practice Friday, starting a multicar accident and destroying the back end of the No. 88 Chevrolet. Earnhardt will go to a backup car for the Amp Energy 500 Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway and start in the back of the field. But the team changed an engine because of a cylinder head problem earlier in the day, so he would have started in the back anyway. Tony Stewart, David Gilliland, Kasey Kahne and David Reutimann also were invol ...

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