Dale Earnhardt Jr. steering wheel coming off while racing – Video

Dale Earnhardt Jr. talks about the steering wheel coming off of the column during a caution flag in the GEICO 500.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Bio

Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born October 10, 1974), known professionally as Dale Earnhardt Jr., Dale Jr., or just Junior, is an American professional stock car racing driver and champion team owner. He is the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Sr. He is also the grandson of both NASCAR driver Ralph Earnhardt and stock car fabricator Robert Gee, the brother of Kelley Earnhardt-Miller, the half-brother of former driver Kerry Earnhardt, the uncle of driver Jeffrey Earnhardt, the stepson of Teresa Earnhardt, and the older half-brother of Taylor Nicole Earnhardt-Putnam.

Earnhardt’s success at Daytona International Speedway throughout his career has earned him the nickname “Pied Piper” of Daytona. He is a two-time Daytona 500 winner, having won the race exactly 10 years apart (2004 and 2014), and has won the Most Popular Driver Award thirteen times (consecutively from 2003–2015). He has an estimated net worth of $300 million.

He currently drives the No. 88 Chevrolet SS in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for Hendrick Motorsports and drives the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro for his own team, JR Motorsports, in select events in the Xfinity Series. He had previously driven the No. 8 Chevrolet for Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (DEI), his father’s team.