“Every day was like grinding gears…Just a lot of tension and disagreement and misunderstanding.” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said these words about the honeymoon phase of his relationship. Like any other rock-solid bond, Dale Jr. and Amy Earnhardt’s love also underwent many storms. However, they came out strong and sturdy with the help of therapy. They even went to the extent of having an effective way of solving their anger issues.
Since their first meeting in 2009 till the present day, when they have two lovely daughters, Dale Jr and Amy Earnhardt have nurtured a bountiful marriage. Sometimes, Dale Jr.’s raw, unfiltered NASCAR racing side jumps out at home, and Amy knows how to tackle it. The most recent incident, though, was absolutely hilarious.
When Dale Jr.’s outburst elicited giggles
The former Cup Series legend had quite a few outbursts on the racetrack. When Dale Jr. used to race for his father’s company, Dale Earnhardt Inc., he was an angry young man. During a 2002 Bristol race, he lost his lead to Robby Gordon after leading for 184 laps, and angrily slammed his rival’s car post-race. Dale Jr. even called Gordon a “moving chicane”, eliciting a heated comeback from the latter. Flashes of this boiling exchange were visible to Amy Earnhardt one fine day in July 2025. Recently, she recalled a unique interaction with her husband, who was visibly angry. But what culminated was good ‘entertainment’ for her.
In a recent episode of ‘Bless Your Hardt’, Amy Earnhardt did a visual retelling of what happened. She perfectly re-enacted the animated emotions flowing through her husband and her own reactions to them. She said, “He’s sitting on the couch, not saying anything. But he had this aura of ‘pissed off’ about him. Finally, I’m like, ‘You look like you’re really annoyed, what’s going on?’ ‘I’ll tell you what’s going on,’ and he stood up. He said it in a way that I thought maybe I was about to get attacked. I was like, ‘Oh s—, I don’t know what I did.’”
Waiting with bated breath to know what followed? Well, Amy did too. What she received was a fun side of Dale Jr.’s commentary, only with more physical gestures. She continued, “He starts marching around the living room, just ranting and raving, and throwing his hands around. And I’m like, this is almost entertaining…He’s needing to get all this steam off his chest, and he had legitimate reasons to be pissed off…I was kind of entertained.” After letting off the burden on his shoulders, Dale Jr. felt better. Amy narrated that as well: “It’s hilarious, because as soon as he was done, he was like, ‘Ah, I feel better, thanks for that.’”
Although flashes of his hot-tempered youth were visible, Dale Jr. grew conscious. He even gave a disclaimer to Amy about the trivial nature of his anger: “That felt so good. What I was frustrated with was nothing important, nothing serious. I got home, and I was like, ‘I’ll tell you…’ And then I stopped and I said, ‘Are you sure I can do this? You might stop me and go, Dale, this is nothing to be mad about.’”
Such a sweet resolution to Dale Jr’s anger bout is bound to make the NASCAR couple’s bond stronger. While Dale Jr. navigates his personal outbursts, he also acknowledged a Cup Series driver’s internal struggles.
Tipping his hat to a victorious fight
Over the years, Bubba Wallace has quietly struggled. Through his transition from Richard Petty’s fold to Michael Jordan’s team and fighting to bring 23XI Racing to a winning status, Wallace has faced a mental health dilemma. This stems from multiple incidents. Among the most serious ones was the discovery of a noose in his Cup Series garage – although proven a false alarm, it left an impact on the driver who took down the Confederate flag from NASCAR. Another instance was watching his friend, Ryan Blaney, clinch the championship while Wallace had to settle for a winless season in 2023. However, he turned over a new leaf in 2025.
At the beginning of the season, Bubba Wallace declared that he had been working on himself. What culminated was a well-deserved, much-awaited Brickyard 400 victory. This prompted Dale Jr. to tip his hat in respect to Wallace’s other internal victory. He said, “I think that’s why this win is so popular among the peers and other people in the industry, and we kind of know some of those stories about what he’s dealt with, and some of the struggles that he’s dealt with off the racetrack, think that’s why a lot of people are glad to see him sort of coming into his own as a human being.”
Dale Jr. applauds not only his internal victories, but others’ too. And Amy Earnhardt applauds alongside him in a beautifully blooming marriage.
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