that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be retiring from NASCAR at the end of this season. He is relatively newly married, and have suffered many injuries during the course of his recent career that has led to this decision. He also knows that Hendrick Motorsports and NASCAR will not fire him, but they would fire Bubba Wallace, one of a handful of POC in the top 3 NASCAR national series.

And he's risking it for a good cause. I admire that very much.

but dont know if they have it in them to do this.

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will to some extent be dictated by their sponsors. Some sponsors are more attached to the driver than to the team or brand of car they drive. They dictate who drives and who doesn't. Some are even contracted in such a way that if they were fired, they would take the sponsor and their money to whoever else lets them drive the car. Some of these team owners are talking out of their ass, because it's sponsor money that pays the bills.

He has plenty of money and trophies, every trophy from every race. So I think he can walk away with out caring.

But isn't he retired? I do not follow NASCAR but I thought I heard his last race was last season.

....but the season is not over. He is not eligible for the chase, but he will continue to race until the end of the season.

NASCAR and NASCAR supporters do not know anything about patriotism beyond wearing a flag hat. They are mostly cowards and mindless sheep willing to walk any path their cowardly leaders tell them to, as long as they get to keep viewing cars driving around in circles.

I'm a life long nascar fan, yet I'm I'm here, what does that say about your theory?.

And I thought liberals like myself are supposed to accept others as they are.

Well thats what I thought......

so he'll be mostly immune from the blowback

are liberals or as close as you can get to that given where they work.

I hope Jimmy and Jeff say the same thing soon.

Dale Jr. was always very careful how he said what he said, he discarded the whole redneck stuff long ago.

Always been a fan, now I will always be for sure.

NASCAR has far too many white wing fans and confederate flags.

There's a new "uniter" in town...

The orange headed barbarian with the comb-over has managed to bring together BLM and NASCAR. And that ain't easy. But he did it!

"I'm a uniter, not a divider. ...I don't like the politics of pitting one group of people against another, the politics of pointing fingers." - George W. Bush, February 29, 2000.

I'd watch a NASCAR event for that.

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however I have never been a racing fan. But I definitely know the name Dale Earnhardt Jr and know enough about NASCAR from watching Sports Center to know he is a god in the racing world. He is one racer that NASAR wouldn't dare move against.

He is their biggest draw and most followed driver in the media, he's retiring to survive the sport that killed his Father.

He is the one person in the sport who will have the biggest audience and impact by his words and actions.

They won't even try to silence him because they know they can't.

Always one of my many favorites in the sport, for him to stand up and do this speaks volumes.

He never had the killer instinct daddy had and I saw daddy once, drove like a madman.

Jr. was great on the super-speedways though.

Good guy, and this is not news to me.

You should be aware that when Farenheit 911 came out in theaters, Dale Jr took his whole team to the theater to see it. He seems to be a long time Democrat. NC is a purple state and has been for a very long time; And Jr is very much an NC native.

what's up with the Hitler mustache.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nascar-owners-say-they-would-fire-employees-who-protest-anthem_us_59c8c174e4b06ddf45f8e787?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Just because of their mostly redneck fan base, we are not all rednecks, we don't all own confederate flags or white hoods.

It's auto racing, just because some of the people who watch it have serious problems with people not like them does not make the sport bad.

It's just auto racing, AND I FUCKING LOVE IT.

As they say if you don't like it don't watch it.

But don't lump all it's fans together with the deplorable ones, I live in Washington state and there are thousands upon thousands of Nascar fans living here.

And probably not a confederate surrender flag among them.

Just my two cents in reply to the many posts above that equate a sport with it's fans they don't like.

It's just auto racing.

The level of disrespect here for auto racing is pathetic. I am at a racetrack every single weekend from April through September; the best people I have ever met are in racing.

Kasey Kahne and Biffle fan? Or Derrick Cope to go back a ways

Chance at a checkered flag, but what the heck, he's racing, I'm not , it's all good.

NASCAR can't fire on the basis of race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status... but by this logic one could be fired for simply being a Democrat. ? Simply taking a knee during an anthem could hold up in court, could it not?
open question.

Team owners can fire a driver for any reason at any time. Lack of team chemistry, sponsor directives, on or off track issues, you name it

Since making a sponsor mad will almost always result in a driver change, the team owners & drivers bend over backwards to keep the sponsors happy. You will never see a driver taking a knee for just that reason, so it is a moot point


No court would rule otherwise