“Pretty Much Committing Career Suicide” – Dale Earnhardt Jr. Reveals if He’d Backstab Hendrick Motorsports in Favor of Richard Childress Racing

XFL quarterback Quinten Dormady recently came under scrutiny after he gave his team’s playbook to an opposition team in exchange for money. Now, as interesting as this incident, NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. decided to make it even more interesting.

The 48-year-old not only gave his reaction to this incident, but he also opened up on the scenario it would take for him to leak confidential information about his team to an opposition team in NASCAR. In doing so, the Hall of Famer revealed where he draws the line between being a traitor and being a competitive professional.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. claims trading confidential information with rivals is “career suicide”

Dale Jr. took part in a new segment on The Dale Jr. Download, in which they reacted to viral incidents and then put themselves in the same situation. When the incident from XFL came up, the former Hendrick Motorsports driver had some interesting things to say.

“I have set up sheets from HMS from ’08 to 2013. I have filing cabinet full of set-up sheets man, everything on there,” Junior revealed. “I would never let that get in the wrong hands, even today. This information that is literally a decade old. I would be very uncomfortable with posting it anywhere.”

“I won’t even do that if I’m even uncomfortable with that, and this is 10 years old, this information about our cars, I can’t imagine what would make somebody want to take information that is current and so valuable and give it to the competition.”

“You know, when you’re doing that, then you’re pretty much-committing career suicide,” he added.

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However, there’s one scenario in which Earnhardt Jr. could share his team’s confidential information, such as a playbook with an opposition team.

Earnhardt Jr. on the scenario in which he could give a competitor information

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The former Hendrick Motorsports driver claimed that if the other team hired him, and he just happens to have something like a playbook, he would share it with them even if he isn’t being paid to do it.

This prompted his co-host Mike Davis to ask him if he hadn’t retired at HMS, and if Richard Childress would’ve signed him over at RCR, would he have given Childress the set-up sheets and such information from Hendrick, to which Junior replied, “If I thought they were gonna make me fast and win, I’m in a new job, and I’ve got information? You think I’m gonna just keep that in my pocket?”

“I think I’ve established this. I would not give information that I have to any competitor unless I have became the part of that team.”

Or simply put, for Dale Jr., the line would be if the opposition team hires him. If they hire him, he will share the information he has, but if they’re simply paying him money to trade in the same information, he wouldn’t betray his team.

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