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Dale Earnhardt Jr., a former NASCAR Cup Series driver and one of the most successful drivers of his time, recently shared a wild incident about his father, the seven-time Cup Series champion Dale Sr., on his podcast Dale Jr. Download.
The $300 million worth Dale Jr. (according to Celebrity Net Worth) talked about the time when was just a teenager and how his father was enthusiastic about owning land. He said:
"Dad loved land, loved owning land. He had like a vision of how he wanted that land to look and literally would move tons of dirt."
Dale Jr. then recounted a particular memory where he saw his father using a bulldozer to move dirt and trees on his own, which led to an accident. He said:
"I was in my little S-10 pickup truck about 16 years old and I was driving down to this log cabin as he was building it. He's on a bulldozer in front of the log cabin clearing some land and he pushed this tree over. Giant freaking tree. When the tree goes down, right, this big tree falls down, the roots come out of the ground, flipped over a giant bulldozer on the side."
However, after this mishap, Dale Sr. was seemingly unaffected by the accident and focused on getting the job done. Dale Earnhardt Jr. said:
"I jump out and I run over there and he comes out from under it and he's like, hurry, get in the truck. We got to go back to the farm. I got to flip this thing back over. You know the gas and all this stuff's leaking out of this tractor. I thought, you know, great, he's not hurt."
"He jumps in the truck and we drive on the back of the farm and he gets another tractor, another bulldozer. And he drives this bulldozer wide open, probably about a quarter mile, maybe longer, to this spot and flips the other one over, jumps on it, cranks it up, and back to work. Wow. I'm like, man, flipping a bulldozer is hard to do. And he got out, flipped it back over, and just started back to work," he added.
Fans react to Dale Earnhardt Jr's story
The father-son duo are among the most popular NASCAR drivers in its history and fans online enthusiastically responded to Dale Earnhardt Jr's story.
One fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter):
"He was a LEGEND!!"
Another fan wrote:
"Always love hearing these little stories about Dale."
One fan drew parallels to Dale Earnhardt Sr's determination on and off the track:
"He flipped his car at Daytona, jumps out of the ambulance and gets back in the wrecked car. Flipping a bulldozer and getting back to work is just another day."
