Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Reaction Is All of Us on the Recent NASA News

NASA recently announced that it is planning to de-orbit and eventually decommission the International Space Station (ISS) in the future. And the way in which they will do so resulted in a reaction that even surprised NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.

The federal government agency plans to crash the ISS into the Pacific ocean in 2031.

And the NASCAR Hall of Famer’s crisp but apt reaction to this news on Twitter was perhaps all of us.

“..don’t hit nothing” – The key advice Dale Earnhardt Jr. received in his early career

Tony Eury Sr., the veteran crew chief, recently spoke of the time when Dale Earnhardt Sr. came to him for an opinion on his son, who was then an up-and-coming race car driver.

Eury recalled, “Dale came to me and said, ‘What do you think about Dale Jr.? Do you think he’ll ever make a driver?’”

“And I said, ‘I don’t know,'” he continued. “But I see you spending a lot of money on some other people, why don’t you spend it on your own kids?”

Eventually, Eury Sr took on the younger Earnhardt, and together they won two Xfinity Series titles with 13 wins in two years, something Eury spoke about recently in Dale Jr’s Hall of Fame induction along with the advice he gave to Dale Jr. 

“I’d seen the talent that he had early, when we started the Xfinity stuff,” he said.

“Luckily we were in a position as a company where we were kind of finishing in the top five in points. … So, I told him, ‘Look, just don’t hit nothing and you’ll have this championship in the bag. We’ll do what we gotta do and you’ll learn how to drive these cars and we’ll go.’”

And learn to drive those cars he did.

What followed next was a career of nearly two decades that saw Dale Earnhardt Jr. inheriting the weight of a great legacy and turning it into something more, something richer, all the while creating one of his own, in and out of a racecar.

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