Earnhardt Jr. Wins Record 12Th Consecutive Most Popular Driver Award
“I can’t think y’all enough for waht you all do,” Earnhardt said to his fans in accepting the award. Earnhardt had a good feeling going into the Sprint Cup Awards banquet Friday night that he could win the award. As part of a program with Sprint as the new sponsor of the award, fans who tweeted their vote had their votes count twice. “The most interesting thing about Twitter for me this year was to, with the way Sprint has their voting system, was to be able to wake up and just see a timeline full of that stuff and see first-hand the efforts (my fans) put forth,” Earnhardt said Thursday....