Why did Dale Earnhart Jr. leave his dads organization?

May be...

He wanted to own 51% of it, the owner of DEI said no. He left.

She wanted to bring in much more talented drivers like Regan Smith and Paul Menard

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, I'm guessing.

last year like 6 blown engines this year


none

which would u choose???

I think Dale left for several reasons. First, as he so bluntly put it, their relationship had never been a bed of roses. They had conflict. He didn't like the way she ran the show and he didn't think she knew how to run the show. (On that point I agree with him) She wouldn't let go of the purse strings so she more or less called his hand and he took the leap knowing he'd land somewhere and anything would be better than 8 DNF's. When Hendricks decided not to keep Kyle that was the perfect opportunity for Dale to drop by and pay a visit. Hendricks is not paying Dale nearly the amount of money he is paying others. If you look at his total monies for the year, his is lower than most. Martin Truex made more money this past year. Dale wanted to drive for the best he could get and he knew what Hendricks had to offer. He wanted to have his best shot at the championship and having the best cars on the track sure doesn't hurt your chances. He found his first real job and now he is having to earn his keep. Something that will be another feather in his hat of saying I am not a Cup driver because my dad was. He needed to get out from under that cloud. He had lots of reasons and I think he made the best decision for himself in many ways to leave DEI and drive for someone that would let him drive, not for his popularity but for his ability as a race car driver.

Running the risk of being a little crude but it wasn't his dads organization anymore, so he had no reason to stay.

He felt like he needed to compete for championships and win races. He felt like DEI was not being ran in a fashion that would get him those things. He offered to make a deal with his step mother Teresa to allow him to buy 51% of the business so he could manage DEI. One thing he stated was that Dale Jr was NOT going to keep putting HIS money into DEI and not having any say so in the business. He made the offer and she tried to set the price for 51% of the company way more than Dale Jr was willing to buy it at. She set a ridiculous amount (between $55 million and $75 million) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn... and also wanted DEI to be run by a board instead of Dale Jr having the majority of the control and power to run it as he saw fit.. http://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/10/dale-... Dale Jr refused to pay that amount after a lot of cat-and-mouse games with Teresa. In fact she hired someone to deal with Dale instead of dealing with Dale Jr personally (her step son/family). Dale Jr saw the talks were going nowhwere and he had always had a dream as a kid of one day driving for Rick Hendrick. There were no driver positions available at HMS until Rick Hendrick learned that Kyle Busch may be looking for another team and that he was unhappy with where he was at. Rick went ahead and let Kyle go and hired Dale Earnhardt Jr. One of the things I remember from the time it occured was teams were having to rely on computer programs (7 post shakers) in order to set their cars up because of the limited testing rule in place back then. DEI did not own one and to this day I still don't think they own one. In fact Dale Jr's Busch series team and shop had their own 7 post shaker and DEI was using Dale Jr's 7 post shaker. Dale Jr felt like she wasn't investing the money in the proper areas to be competitive and he felt he was wasting his time. Things happened and doors opened at the right time and he became a driver for Rick Hendrick.mrs blue