Dale Earnhardt Jr. 'would do anything' to hear what his dad thinks of him today
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. joins his father in the NASCAR Hall of Fame and said he "would do anything to hear what he thinks" about the things he and his sister have done with their lives since his death in 2001.
Junior never hoisted the Cup.
But what he did do was build a career as NASCAR's top ambassador, finding a crossover audience that stretches far beyond his father's reach.
"Once I realized that I wasn't going to match dad's statistics on paper ... to me, my dad was this really important part of the puzzle, and he was important because of his success but also because of the reaction to whatever he did," Earnhardt told The Associated Press this week. "I thought, ‘Wow, that is an asset, that's what being an asset to the sport is and this guy is valuable.' I wanted to have that same value."