Dale Earnhardt Jr. hasn’t raced within the Daytona 500 or the NASCAR Cup Sequence since 2017, however somebody near him is pushing for that to vary subsequent 12 months.
Earnhardt Jr. revealed that his spouse, Amy, informed him that he ought to race within the 2027 Daytona 500. Earnhardt’s race staff, JR Motorsports, entered a automotive within the 2025 and 2026 Daytona 500 with driver Justin Allgaier behind the wheel.
“Amy informed me I ought to run the Daytona 500 subsequent 12 months,” Earnhardt Jr. said in a clip posted to social media. “I used to be like, ‘what?’ We had been laying in mattress Sunday evening after the race, [and] she was like, ‘You need to simply drive it subsequent 12 months.’ I am like, ‘hiya? Pardon me? What’d you say? Are you okay?'”
May Dale Earnhardt Jr. return to NASCAR?
Since concussions pressured Earnhardt Jr. into an early retirement from full-time Cup Sequence competitors in 2017, he is competed in 10 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence races. He didn’t race within the O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence in 2025.
