When Dale Earnhardt Jr. signed with Hendrick Motorsports last year, fans and the media referred to the organization as NASCAR's first "Super Team" since Hendrick's 1987 lineup of Tim Richmond, Darrell Waltrip and Geoff Bodine.
It's only fitting that Earnhardt be paired with the likes of Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and, (cough) Casey Mears, two sure-fire Hall of Famers and some other guy.
However, if Sunday's Daytona 500 taught us anything, besides how disco has no place at a racetrack, it's that teamwork decides restrictor-plate races, and between Hendrick and Gibbs, there was no winner.
Earnhardt would rather chug a case of Amp than draft with Gordon, Gordon would rather play patty-cake with his daughter, Johnson would rather do a commercial than push either driver, and that's it as far as Hendrick cars go, since Mears wasn't fast enough to bump draft a clydesdale, let alone Dale.
Joe Gibbs Racing, a team I like to refer to as Bankroll Motorsports, had Kyle "Rowdy" Busch [what a fitting name] nearly wreck both his teammates while in the lead. Not that anyone should be surprised. Busch doesn't know how to spell teamwork, which is why he isn't at Hendrick Motorsports anymore.
Casey Mears knows his place: to shine the trophies of his three teammates when they outrun Gibbs' Toyotas.
IF they ever outrun Gibbs' Toyotas.
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