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The first episode of “Unfinished Business,” a six-part series that documents Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s return to competition in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, debuted Tuesday on the Nationwide 88 Facebook page — you also can watch the video above.
Nationwide is the primary sponsor of Earnhardt’s No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and came up with the idea for the series.
In Episode No. 1, Earnhardt details what it was like to be out of the car for the second half of the 2016 racing season as he underwent rehabilitation for a concussion. He missed the final 18 races, with drivers Jeff Gordon and Alex Bowman filling in during his recovery.
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“I knew having gone through this before that when I wasn’t healthy my emotions would really sort of cloud the picture,” Earnhardt explains. “From the time I felt the injury and went through the treatment, it was unclear, there wasn’t ‘Yes I want to race, no I don’t want to race.’ It was just a big old muddy puddle.”
The episodes will air on Tuesdays between now and the Feb. 26 Daytona 500 (two episodes will air the final week).