Dale Earnhardt Jr. has called a news conference on Wednesday (11 a.m. ET on SPEED). And like almost all major news conferences in all major sports, the subject of this particular press conference won’t be much of a secret by the time the announcement is made.

According to sources close to the subject, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be replacing Kyle Busch at Hendrick Motorsports. Probably the biggest unknown is whether Budweiser will sponsor the car, but Hendrick has had an association with that company as a sponsor of the No. 25 car.

As much as some would think this move was a no-brainer, I’m sure that it was a very tough decision on for Hendrick because he’s a very loyal individual. But from a business and financial perspective, there was just no way he was going to blow an opportunity to field a car for Dale Jr.

It’s still going to come down team chemistry. I assume that current No. 5 crew chief Alan Gustafson will stay in that position, and it’s going to be up to those two guys to make it work.

As Earnhardt Jr. said when he announced he was leaving Dale Earnhardt Inc. at the end of the season, making the move would be the last decision that he would make in his driving career. He’s at the age Dale Earnhardt Sr. was when he made a really major decision about his future, joining Richard Childress Racing. Dale Jr. feels like he’s in that same position now.

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