Dale Earnhardt Jr. ends his 2016 Sprint Cup season without a win. He drove in half the season's races and came away with four second-place finishes.
Friday, the phrase of the day become #GetWellDale. #JrNation fell in with the Twitter comment of longtime fan Sarah Scott, handle sarahscadoodle8: "Real tears were just shed at work. I haven't cried the entire time but I broke down today."
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There will be no thrill the final 12 races of 2016 for Junior Nation, the legion of fans that made Earnhardt the most popular stock car driver the past 13 years.