Preview: Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Bristol

RELATED: Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s complete history at Bristol For his final full-time season as a driver, NASCAR.com will offer an analytical preview on Dale Earnhardt Jr. ahead of every remaining Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Race: Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race Date: Saturday, Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) Preview five results at Bristol: 38th, second, ninth, 16th, 39th RELATED: Recap all of Junior's Monster Energy Series wins Notable: Bristol Motor Speedway is one of Earnhardt’s best tracks on the circuit. In 34 career starts, Earnhardt has earned 16 top-10 finishes and eight top-five finishes. He has one Bristol win, which came in this race back in 2004. Earnhardt has also led the sixth-most laps at Bristol (among active drivers) at 790, and his 13.3 average finish is third-best only to Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott and Roush Fenway Racing's Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Memorable: Earnhardt was simply untouchable at Bristol in the summer of 2004. As such, Earnhardt became the first driver to sweep both the XFINITY and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races at the track in the same weekend. In the Friday night XFINITY race, Earnhardt started from the pole and led 125 of 256 laps on his way to the victory. The next night, Earnhardt came through the field from the 30th starting position and led 295 of 500 laps as he scored his first premier series win at Bristol, celebrating with a memorable, "It's Bristol, baby!" shout in Victory Lane. Quotable: "The track itself is real unique. There's not another one like it," Earnhardt said in a team release. "It has always been a surprise to me that nobody has ever tried to emulate it somewhere else because it’s such an incredible place. Particularly when it was asphalt, it was quite the racetrack. And it's surprising to me that nobody has tried to rebuild that sort of racetrack somewhere else to see how it would do. But maybe it's best there's only one. It's still a lot of fun to race on even though it's changed quite a bit. And, I always thought that was one of the coolest trophies. It was taller than me for quite a large part of my life. Until I graduated from high school, I don't think I was any taller than that trophy, and daddy had a bunch of them in the house. He had a lot of clocks. He had a lot of Bristol trophies. And I wanted one of each. So, I feel lucky to have those now." [gallery_content baseUrl="https://www.nascar.com" galleryID="489" photocount="3"]