Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 Mountain Dew DEW-S-A Chevrolet, looks on during qualifying for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 12, 2017 in Kansas City, Kansas. Photo – Sean Gardner/Getty Images

In Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s case, familiarity breeds desire.

Asked which race he’d most like to win in his final season of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series racing, Earnhardt immediately thought of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the track closest to his Mooresville, NC, home.

“The 600 would be awesome,” Earnhardt told the NASCAR Wire Service on Friday at Kansas Speedway. “Charlotte is our home track, and (we) haven’t won a point’s race there. So, I would like to win there, but there’s a long list. Any of them that we haven’t won at would be great.

“Any win this year, right, would be good. But if I had to pick, Charlotte would be… winning the 600 would mean a lot. I always went to that race as a little kid, so I like to win at the places where I spent tons of time growing up, and that was one of them.”