1,000 Greatest Drivers: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Sometimes it's hard to properly evaluate a driver through the cacophony of overexposure.

I stopped watching NASCAR in 2003 and the first half of 2004 when Junior was arguably putting up his career-best performances, so as a result, I never regarded him as highly as I should have while he was active. It didn’t help that many of the people I was being influenced by on the Racing Reference comment sections were constantly trash-talking him; us…