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Dale Earnhardt Jr. met the media todayDale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the next two races in the Sprint Cup Series, this weekend at Charlotte and next weekend at Kansas, as he recuperates from a concussion suffered during the wreck on the final lap at Talladega next weekend. Below are some of his comments from is presser today as he met the media, where he announced that Regan Smith will fill the seat of the #88."I guess I'll just start out with where this all kind of began." Junior started today. "We had a test at Kansas about five weeks ago, and we blew a right front tire going into Turn 1, and I remember everything about that accident and everything after that accident, but I knew that I didn't feel -- you know your body, and you know how your mind works, and I knew something was just not quite right. But I decided to just try to push through and work through it. I'd had concussions before and knew exactly kind of what I was dealing with. I felt pretty good after a week or two and d...
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