Dale Earnhardt Jr: House tour| Tribute| Hall of Fame| Retired

Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, team owner, author, and an analyst for NASCAR on NBC. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro for his team JR Motorsports.

Dale Earnhardt Jr: House tour| Tribute| Hall of Fame| Retired

House tour:

At first glance — aside from sharing the profession of “race car driver” — Dale Earnhardt Jr., Mike Stefanik and Red Farmer couldn’t be more different from one another.

Despite their varying backgrounds and diverse racing pursuits, Earnhardt, Stefanik and Farmer now share one monumental achievement in common — all three are in the NASCAR Hall of Fame after an induction ceremony at the Charlotte Convention Center on the night of January 21.

Tribute:

More than that, as a driver, team owner and television analyst, Earnhardt has transcended both the sport of stock car racing and his own legacy as the son of seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt.

Stefanik, a hard-nosed New Englander, drove modifieds with a relentless tenacity that carried him to seven Whelen Modified Tour titles. Stefanik, who died in 2019 at age 61 from injuries suffered in the crash of a private plane, also collected two championships in what was then the Busch North Series.

Hall of Fame:

The patriarch of the Alabama gang, Farmer accumulated many victories — estimated between 700 and 900 — at short tracks located primarily in the Deep South.

At age 89, he still competes on the one-third mile dirt oval at the Talladega Short Track across the highway from NASCAR’s biggest superspeedway.

The climax of the January 21 ceremony was the induction of Earnhardt, who has made an indelible mark on a sport into which he was born. Earnhardt joined his father, a member of the inaugural class of 2010, in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Retired:

From those inauspicious beginnings, however, Earnhardt followed his father into the NASCAR Xfinity Series, where he won back-to-back championships in 1998 and 1999, and then into NASCAR’s premier division, where he drove first for family-owned Dale Earnhardt Inc. and then for Hendrick Motorsports.

Earnhardt acknowledged the importance of uncle Tony Eury Sr., his crew chief; his sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller, who spurred the growth of JR Motorsportsand Earnhardt’s broadcasting career; team owner Rick Hendrick; and SteveLetarte, his crew chief at that organization.