Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s impending retirement at the end of the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season has been a talking point at every race, but this weekend in Darlington, he’ll finally take a backseat to someone else – his late father.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. gets a Victory Lane kiss from daughter Taylor Nicole after winning the March 1994 Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway.
Earnhardt Sr. practically owned Darlington throughout his Hall of Fame career, winning nine different Cup races there.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has placed in the top five at Darlington Raceway a handful of times and even finished second at the track in 2014, but he’s never been able to win.
88 Nationwide Chevrolet that he will drive Sunday in his final Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.
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