NASCAR's 14-time most popular driver missed half of last season after suffering a concussion in a June race at Michigan International Speedway. She moved to the Charlotte area in 2000 and works in accounting at JR Motorsports.
and his mother have remained close over the years. She later married Willie Jackson and moved to Chesapeake, Va.Įarnhardt Jr. and Jackson, daughter of race car builder Robert Gee, divorced several years after Earnhardt Jr.'s birth. Two years earlier, the Earnhardts had welcomed a daughter, Kelley, who now is co-owner and vice president of JR Motorsports, Earnhardt Jr.'s Xfinity Series team.Įarnhardt Sr. He was going to be a boy, and that was the name.” “From the moment I found out I was expecting, Dale Senior was adamant it was a boy. “I didn’t have a choice in that,” she said. had proclaimed before Junior’s birth that the baby his wife was carrying was a boy and that he would be named Dale Jr., Jackson said. I didn’t want to go back out there if it wasn’t a boy.”Įarnhardt Sr. “I can remember when the doctor said, ‘You have a healthy boy.’ I just cried. “I can remember when he was born,” Jackson told USA TODAY Sports. Jackson, Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s second wife, delivered his third child, Dale Jr., on Oct. With all due respect to others who played a role in the soon-to-conclude auto racing journey of Dale Earnhardt Jr., no one has been more important than Brenda Jackson. Watch Video: Dale Earnhardt Jr.: His legacy in his own words
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