Today Dale Earnhardt Junior, NASCAR’s most popular and marketable driver, shocked the NASCAR community and announced that he would be leaving the DEI race team that his father, the late Dale Earnhardt, owned. According to Dale Junior, “after a year of intense negotiations that we decided to move on. “We will see what team I drive for next year. That is an announcement for a later date. “
Dale Junior, along with his sister, had been in negotiations with DEI management to extend Dale Junior’s contract and were reportedly refusing to move off their position of requiring a minimum of 51% ownership and operational control of the team. There had been speculation in the press recently that Teresa Earnhardt, Dale Junior’s step-mom and his father’s wife at the time of his death, had agreed to give up 51% but wanted a “board” to oversee final decisions.
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