Can Dale Jr. Win Immediately With New Team?

Next year at this time, I wonder how Dale Jr. will be doing with his new team. He’s going to have his own personal expectations driving him, but you can bet that Rick Hendrick will be applying his own type of pressure, just to keep Dale Jr. focused.

Can Dale Jr. win in short order next year, or will he struggle with the new team? You can bet that this off-season will be plenty busy for Dale Jr. and his new team. They’re going to have work at not only building new cars, but doing some off-season testing as well. Dale Jr. will be using Hendrick horsepower, which will help him tremendously, but his biggest adjustment will probably be with the chassis and crew chief.

I do think he’ll win by mid-season, at least once. More interestingly, the more Dale Jr. wins, the less wins that Gordon and Johnson get. Will this affect team chemistry? Probably not, but each driver’s goal is to win races first, and team chemistry takes a distance second (as it should).