Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Full Biography
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is an American former NASCAR driver, team owner and broadcaster. He won 26 Cup Series races including two Daytona 500s, took back-to-back Busch Series championships in 1998 and 1999, and was voted the sport’s most popular driver fifteen years running. He entered the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2021.
Dale Earnhardt Inc. He won the Busch Series title in his first full season and again the year after, then moved up to Cup in the No. 8 Budweiser Chevrolet run by his father’s team. His father was killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, in a race Earnhardt Jr. finished second. That July, in NASCAR’s first race back at Daytona, he won.
Hendrick He left the family team after 2007 for Hendrick Motorsports and the No. 88. Four winless seasons followed before the results returned: the 2014 Daytona 500 and four wins that year, three more in 2015. Concussions interrupted him twice, and the second cost him half of the 2016 season.
After He announced in April 2017 that the season would be his last full-time one, and finished 25th in his final race. He has commentated on the sport since, and owns JR Motorsports, whose cars have won the Xfinity Series championship repeatedly. He never won a Cup Series title; his best finish was third, in 2003.
