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June 24, 2015 | By NASCAR.com
Dale Earnhardt Jr. earned a career-best third-place finish on a road course last June at Sonoma Raceway. As the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to wine country, No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports crew chief Greg Ives told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio that Earnhardt would win the Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1, MRN, SiriusXM). During a road trip with his family to his native Upper Peninsula in Michigan, Ives was asked about running his first road race with Earnhardt, and he had a confident response. "We're going to go there to drink the wine in Victory Lane," Ives said. "That's what we're going to go do." The race winner at Sonoma drinks red wine from a goblet in Victory Lane. With a win, Earnhardt would become the 11th different driver in that last 11 races to win at the 11-turn road course. The No. 88 will be supporting a special Windows 10 paint scheme this weekend at Sonoma for new NASCAR and Hendrick partner Microsoft. "But in all honesty, a lot of things that we do when we're going to a racetrack that may not be our strong point, just go there prepared as possible and know that no matter the highs and lows of the weekend, we've got to consider having fun and enjoying ourselves and knowing that we can work together to make the car better," Ives said. In his first year atop Earnhardt's pit box, Ives has had to move beyond his engineering background as a leader of that team and "show a little bit more of my personality as far as outgoingness a little bit just to keep that comfort between Dale and I." "That's probably the biggest thing I've had to adjust. In past roles, my job was to sit in the corner and figure out how the car goes fast and make it faster. And then changing into a role as a crew chief, you have to do that as well, but you also have to keep the teammates and the driver happy in certain occasions." The No. 88 team all but clinched a Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup berth at Talladega last month and had earned eight top fives and nine top 10s in the first 15 races of the season. Earnhardt and Ives have developed a good working relationship, and the crew chief said each will have the other's back at Sonoma. "I'm not going to try pinning a bad race on him; he's not going to pin a bad race on me," Ives said. "We're here to work together to provide the best finish possible. We're going to go out there and have some fun. "I'm not the best road course crew chief, I don't think. We don't do it that often. He may not consider himself the best road course racer, but I'm going to tell you what. We're going to be in the top three racing for the win at the end of that thing." Ives hoped Earnhardt's trip to Germany -- which included his engagement to Amy Reimann -- combined with the upcoming road course race would be a good break from the typical oval races and packages that NASCAR's premier series runs. "I kind of joke with him about going to Germany as far as getting away from a standard way of driving, whether it's -- I don't even know if they drive on the wrong side of the road, who knows -- but trying to … get away from that feel of what he's used to, whether it's the downforce cars we run or short track or even a speedway," Ives said. "We just get away from it and kind of get the feel out of them, get something different for a while and then come back, and it's always cool to be here and come back to something that's a little different after a break…." En route to his second consecutive NASCAR XFINITY Series championship, Earnhardt earned a road course win at Watkins Glen in 1999. In 65 XFINITY Series races as a crew chief, Ives' best finish is fourth in 2013 with Regan Smith in 2013 at Watkins Glen and fourth with Chase Elliott at Mid-Ohio in 2014.