Marty was twitter about this as it happened this morning.

Brian Whitsell will be his crew chief at Dover and Lance McGrew will be his interim Crew Chief.

I think Hendrick and Jr's sponsors have had enough.
They had an in-car camera shot of Jr during the Coke 600 and he just could not turn the car. (The in car of Kyle Busch looked like someone cruising down I-5 on a Sunday drive) Hendrick has the best chassis program in the biz, let alone the notes from the 48 - 5 and 24 teams.

When Jr jumped into the 5 car a couple of years ago after Busch wrecked it and decided to go home, Jr was turning equal lap times to Busch with a damaged car.
Jr can drive!

Their moving Eury Jr. to a R&D Position within the company.

Brian Whitsell was Jeff Gordon's Interim Crew Chief When Evernham left in 99. He's been with those teams a long time.

I hope and truly feel, that only good will come from this change. I feel bad for Junior. He's a good driver, as Was stated, and he's gotten a lot of tough knocks. He is Dale, JUNIOR. Senior was am accomplished driver, but he was also a dirty driver. Shutting my trap now

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/05/28/teuryjr.out.crew.chief.dearnhardtjr/index.html

Yes he was Mappy. I wasn't a fan of Senior. I was always a Richard Petty Fan.

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=4212623

New crew chief eyes full review

By Marty Smith
ESPN.com

Lance McGrew, the man charged with turning Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s
disastrous season around, didn't mince words Thursday when discussing
his prospects and plans in replacing Tony Eury, Jr. as crew chief of
the No. 88 Chevrolet. "Everything and everybody will be evaluated," McGrew
told ESPN.com Thursday.
There is some thought within the sport that Eury and Earnhardt employed
a different preparatory approach than that used by the other three
Hendrick Motorsports teams. McGrew lent credence to that thought.
"I just believe there were some theories that they were using to
making decisions by, that weren't necessarily the same theory that's on
the rest of the complex," McGrew said. "The idea of having a
multiple-car team is you can lean on your teammates. And you have to be
within the same page to get any information. A lot of times they were
not on the same page."Among the first items to be evaluated,
McGrew said, are the No. 88 team's personnel and its relationship
with the No. 5 team of Mark Martin.

The No. 88 and No. 5 teams are housed in the same building at Hendrick
Motorsports. But according to McGrew, they haven't been a unified
program like Jeff Gordon's No. 24 and Jimmie Johnson's No. 48 teams,
which also share a building.

If they can get the 88's setups corrected, Dale jr will take it from there.

It may take several races to pull it together, but I can't wait to see what happens now at Daytona in July (Pepsi 400? )

I love the night race at Daytona....

I do too, Was. It might not be the most exciting race, but man its pretty!

YES! Sounds like NASCAR is seriously considering double file restarts of leaders, not lapped cars. I think its awesome! Lucky dog will keep the race interesting at the back of the field and double files will keep the race interesting up front!

Oh please NASCAR do it SOON!

There is a bunch of Media articles about this....check out Jayskis

What a race! Way to go JJ!!! Felt bad for Jeff. Junior had it going for awhile there! Stewart is getting his stuff together again. The last 15 laps or so were amazing!

Pocono

Pocono 500

Broadcast Schedule

Sprint Cup Series

Practice
Noon ET Friday
Qualifying
3:30 p.m. ET Friday
Practice
10 a.m. ET Saturday
Practice
11 a.m. ET Saturday
Race
12:30 p.m. ET Sunday June 7, 2009 Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania Race 14 of 36 on Sprint Cup circuit TV: TNT, 12:30 p.m. EDT Laps: 200 Track length: 2 1/2 miles Race length: 500 miles Qualifying record: Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 172.533 mph, 2004 Race record: Rusty Wallace, Ford, 144.892 mph, 1996

Espn2
Nationwide Race
Federated Auto Parts 300


June 6, 2009
Nashville Superspeedway
Lebanon, Tennessee
Race 13 of 35 on the Nationwide Series circuit

Laps: 225
Track length: 1.33 miles
Race length: 300 miles

Qualifying record: David Stremme, Dodge, 166.561 mph, 2007
Race record: Scott Wimmer, Chevrolet, 134.095 mph, 2008

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/06/04/double.file.restarts/index.html

NASCAR adopts double-file restarts in Cup Series races

Shootout format to begin in Sunday's race at Pocono

By Official Release
June 4, 2009
03:51 PM EDT

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR on Thursday announced a change to its
race format with the addition of "Double-File Restarts -- Shootout
Style" throughout each race. Beginning with this weekend at Pocono Raceway, the first- and second-place drivers will line up side-by-side as the green flag flies for each restart."We've heard the fans loud and clear: 'double-file restarts -- shootout
style' are coming to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series," said NASCAR
chairman and CEO Brian France. "This addition to the race format is
good for competition and good for the fans."

Yay!!!!

Double file restarts! COOL.
Thanks for the updates ice-ice coffee!

NASCAR_TNT: Very soggy day here at Pocono..just ran into carl edwards on route to go to Nashville. Everyones closing up shop here
NASCAR_TNT: Not the way we wanted to start our 1st TNT weekend off Rain Good news good weather Sat and Sun Lets go racing on TNT16 minutes ago from twitterfeed
NASCARONFOXLee Spencer: ‘Drivers excited about new restart rule’ http://is.gd/PlId

kylepettyQualifying canceled! Start by points! Just told us its official. Heard it here on Twitter, from the TNT booth... http://myloc.me/2Hys8 minutes ago from UberTwitter

mw55in case you havent heard it still raining hereless than 20 seconds ago from web

Pocono
Rain 54°

Yep, it's raining in PA ... eastern PA at least lol