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http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/austin-dillon-richard-childress-racing-sprint-cup-series-no-3-dale-earnhardt-121113#!pJGGG

Looked like a story about Dillon driving the number 3. So is he allready being hailed as rookie of the year?

Do you really think it won't happen? Just keep an eye open on all the yellows and bull crap that will happen this next year to make sure he wins the ROY. I like many others are biased towards Kyle Larson and would very much like to see him pull it off, but I just don't think it's in the stars for that to happen. I mean look at all the positioning already! Brining back the number 3 to start with, it's only going to gets worse. Hopefully I'm wrong, but would it be the first time NASCAR has had their way, I think not. 

If the #s are close I could see Nascar being able to manipulate, but if Kyle was able to pull the lead far enough ahead there wouldn't be much that they could do to make sure Dillon wins it that wouldn't be glaringly obvious what they were doing.

As far as the #3 goes, I personally don't think its as big of a deal as they want to make it out to be, its a number, its not like he's the 2nd coming of Dale. I think Dale's story of coming up is alot different than Austin's, alot different. I don't think at any point in Dale's life did the words come out of his mouth "Grandpa, I want to race in NASCAR, put a car together for me."

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