 On May 10, it was announced that Dale Earnhardt Jr. would be leaving the No.8 Budweiser Chevrolet following the conclusion of the season as he could not get a contract extension with Dale Earnhardt, Inc., the driving team his father founded and run by his stepmother, Teresa Earnhardt.Speculation according to WFXT in Boston had him going to Richard Childress Racing where the "unretirement" of the No.