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Dale Earnhardt Sr. was one of the most intimidating personalities NASCAR has ever seen. After all, one doesn't get the nickname of 'The Intimidator' for no reason. However, there was another side to the 7x Cup champion, a glimpse of which former driver Kenny Wallace recently shared.
The former NASCAR driver, who's reportedly worth $9 million, posted a picture with Earnhardt on social media along with something he said with which Wallace agreed.
In the picture, Wallace can be seen sharing a laugh with the Richard Childress Racing driver. And presumably, the three men in the picture are seen laughing over what Earnhardt said.
"“Women control half the money and all the sex” - Dale Sr," Wallace wrote. "I agreed with him on that."
Kenny Wallace was "in that Daytona 500" that took Dale Earnhardt Sr. away from us
During a 2020 interview, in the aftermath of Ryan Newman's horrific Daytona 500 wreck, Kenny Wallace shares his bad memories from the same race in 2001. This was the race that will forever be remembered as one of the darkest days in NASCAR because it was in that race that the sport lost its brightest star.
"I was in that Daytona 500. I was racing... I wrecked out halfway through that Daytona 500. I was there when he wrecked, but I didn't know the severity. It wasn't 'til we got to our airplane, the team plane and the pilot turned the motors down and said, 'Guys, I'm sorry to tell you, but we lost Dale Earnhardt.' It was just a devastating blow, and it still is to this day," Wallace said (via KSDK).
It's worth mentioning that Kenny Wallace is the brother of Rusty Wallace, who was one of Earnhardt's biggest rivals back in the day. But even though things got bitter between the two on many occasions, there was a feeling and sense of respect between the two, as it usually is between two great athletes and competitors.
So when Wallace won in California in 2001, mere months after Earnhardt's passing in Daytona, he paid tribute to the NASCAR great by driving around the track and waving an Earnhardt flag.
Speaking about that moment, Wallace said to FOX:
"It was kind of an emotional feeling. (Earnhardt) was such a great friend of mine and such a great family. I really would have liked to have had Richard Childress riding with me that lap."
