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Sonoma Raceway shows Dale Earnhardt Jr. some major puppy love

Friday afternoon saw an eventful second and final practice for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway.

Early in the session, Cole Whitt lost an engine in his TriStar Motorsports Chevrolet, oiling down the area around Turn 2 at the 1.99-mile road course.

At virtually the same time, Erik Jones crashed in Turn 11 at the opposite end of the track, forcing the Furniture Row Racing team to roll out a back up No. 77 Toyota for the rookie driver.

“I don’t have a lot of road course experience anyways and then to get thrown into the fire,” said Jones.