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IS MORE SEAT TIME GOOD? What do car owners think about their investments driving other race cars?

Byline: AL PEARCE

Even now, almost three weeks after, the videotape from Infineon Raceway remains unsettling. It shows Nextel Cup star Dale Earnhardt Jr. dazed and slumped forward as fire engulfs the cockpit of his Corvette. He finally tumbles out of the inferno and is hospitalized with minor burns. With relief help, he races at Loudon and Pocono the following Sunday afternoons.

No harm, no foul, right? After all, Junior didn't miss a start in his Budweiser Chevrolet and was the story that weekend. He is still third-ranked and a cinch to qualify for this fal

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