NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. joins Jeff Gordon at Hendrick Motorsports... Who'll beat them now?

Beginning 2008, Hendrick Motorsports will probably be running over EVERYBODY on a NASCAR racetrack.

As ya'll know by now, Earnhardt Jr. will be leaving DEI Racing at the end of the 2007 NASCAR season after his stepmother expressed her desire to have sole control of the family car.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had three options on where he will end up at the end of the NASCAR year. Hendrick Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing were all potential destinations for the guy and it looks like he has finally made his choice.

Earnhardt will be joining NASCAR stars Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Casey Mears in the already powerful Hendrick Motorsports stable, forming probably the most dominant team in NASCAR beginning in 2008. Terms of the deal were not revealed but team owner Rick Hendrick has already said that Earnhardt will not be the highest paid driver in his ridiculously powerful side.

The Hendrick Motorsports owner also said he's not going to force Earnhardt to change his image, even though Earnhardt jokingly said he'd been told to lose his trademark blue jeans and t-shirts.

''I'm flattered he said something,'' Rick Hendrick said. ''The rest of them don't even ask me. They just do it. It's important for Dale to be Dale. His image is his image. I don't want to change that at all.''

Hendrick Motorsports is also planning to have Dale Earnhardt Jr. keep his No.8 and drive a red NASCAR machine with a big Budweiser logo. Of course, DEI Racing has to release Earnhardt's No.8 to Hendrick first, not to mention Hendrick Motorsports' sponsorship commitments with Carquest, Kellog's, National Guard and GMAC they still have to fulfill.

Nevertheless, the addition of Dale Earnhardt Jr. to a team that already has Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson will definitely be one ridiculously talented crop of NASCAR drivers ready to run over the rest of the pack like roadkill.

Can Dale Earnhardt Jr. win the NASCAR championship? Who will bag this year’s Nextel Cup? Bodog has the odds on who will win the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.

Jeff Gordon 8/1

Juan Pablo Montoya 50/1

Greg Biffle 10/1

Jimmie Johnson 5/1

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