Bobby Dale Earnhardt hasn’t competed within the ARCA Menards Collection because the 2017 season, however he’s making a shock return subsequent weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The 38-year-old is the grandson of seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt, the nephew of two-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr., the son of former racer Kerry Earnhardt, and older brother to present NASCAR driver, Jeffrey Earnhardt.
He is additionally a fourth-generation racer, going all the best way again to his great-grandfather, Ralph Earnhardt.
Earnhardt has three earlier ARCA begins, ending as excessive as nineteenth. He additionally made seven begins within the NASCAR Xfinity Collection between 2017 and 2019, putting as excessive as twenty seventh at Kansas Speedway.
He revealed the information in a social media submit on Monday, which was additionally his thirty eighth birthday: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be racing within the ARCA Menards Collection at Bristol Motor Speedway on September 11! This might be my first ARCA race at Bristol and I couldn’t be extra excited to tackle ‘The Final Nice Colosseum.’
“We have nonetheless received just a few sponsor spots open, they usually’re set as much as be very inexpensive in order that anybody from native companies to pals may be a part of this race.
Earnhardt went on to say that the staff he is driving for and the sponsor that’s funding this effort might be revealed later within the week.
His youthful brother Jeffrey is the newest Earnhardt to compete in one of many nationwide ranges of inventory automotive racing, operating two Xfinity Collection races earlier this yr with Sam Hunt Racing.
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