Gearing up for the 2008 National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing season, ESPN picked up five episodes of Dale Jr.- Shifting Gears.
The show will follow Earnhardt as he changes teams and joins Hendrick Motorsports, and it will include everything from behind-the-scenes business meetings and new press-conference footage to the design process for the paint schemes for the new No. 88 car.
The show actually started out as a behind-the-scenes project: “We were working on a new DVD about my life, and the guys kept getting more and more footage, so they decided to put a whole TV show together to document the biggest career decision I’ve ever made,” Earnhardt Jr. said in announcing the show. “The past year of my life has been a roller coaster, and it’s pretty cool that we’re giving everyone an inside look at how everything came together.”
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ESPN will air the first three episodes of the series leading up to the Daytona 500, beginning with the first episode, set to debut Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. on ESPN2.
The last two episodes, each one hour long, will be timed to debut with the Brickyard 400 in July, ESPN’s first live NASCAR event of the season.
