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Dale Earnhardt Jr. might be inducted into the Motorsports Corridor of Fame of America in 2026.The Motorsports Corridor of Fame of America honors people from numerous racing disciplines.
The Motorsports Corridor of Fame of America, probably the most numerous corridor in all of automation, honors giants inside their respective fields every year throughout the induction ceremony in Daytona Seashore.
However Daytona being Daytona, and stock-car racing very a lot a part of this corridor’s universe, the simple headliner of the 2026 class might be Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Junior Earnhardt is one in all seven from the motorsports world who will be a part of the eclectic roll name of the Motorsports Corridor of Fame of America.
The opposite 2026 inductees: Steve Gibbs (drag racing), Pete Lyons (media), John Morton (sports activities automobiles), Kenny Roberts Jr. (bikes), Sammy Swindell (open-wheel) and Dave Villwock (powerboats).
The thirty eighth induction ceremony will happen March 9-10. Voting is tasked to greater than 200 electors, with roughly half of them being previous inductees.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s corridor credentials
Earnhardt, a 2022 NASCAR Corridor of Fame inductee, is properly often called a third-generation racer who received a pair of Xfinity Sequence championships and 26 Cup Sequence races, together with two Daytona 500s (2004, 2014). He additionally received the Cup Sequence’ Most Fashionable Driver award 15 straight years.
He’s at present a championship group proprietor within the Xfinity Sequence along with his JR Motorsports group, co-owned by his sister Kelly Earnhardt Miller.
“As soon as once more, our voters have chosen a bunch of all-time motorsports greats,” mentioned George Levy, president of the MSHFA, which moved to Daytona Seashore from Michigan in 2016. “The Class of 2026 is one other revered and completed group of racers, and we will’t wait to welcome them into the Motorsports Corridor of Fame of America subsequent March.”
Dale Jr. joins Amelia Earhart on this Corridor of Fame
The corridor consists of champions and stars from each type of racing (4 wheels or two), together with the acquainted — A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Richard Petty, Don Garlits, and so forth. Nevertheless it additionally consists of those that earned their fame on the water or by the air.
And that aviation group doesn’t simply embrace those that raced airplanes, however served as groundbreakers of assorted types — Jimmie Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes amongst them.
NASCAR is properly represented — Dale Jarrett was inducted this yr. Each Cup Sequence champ now not lively is an inductee, together with Dale Earnhardt Sr., who was a part of the 2002 class with Gaston Chevrolet, Gordon Johncock and others.
