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AP - Earnhardt's Hendrick Motorsports crew dedicated their win in Saturday's Budweiser Shootout exhibition race to teammate Joey Arnold, whose 4-year-old son, Cayden, had died eight days earlier.
Crew chief Tony Eury Jr. choked up with emotion during the post-race news conference, saying how stunned he was to return to the team's shop in Charlotte from a recent test session and find Arnold already back at work and talking about, of all things, winning the Daytona 500.
"I said 'Joey, what are you doing here?' His kid had died the day before," Eury said. "He said, 'This is my best chance to win the Daytona 500 and I want to be a part of it.'" ...
But Arnold and his wife still are struggling to come to terms with the loss of their son, who had been battling a birth defect that severely hindered his brain development and confined him to a wheelchair.
