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Birth Name: Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 
Nickname: Junior, Little E  Junebug Junior 
Height:  6' (1.83 m) 



Dale Jr. has been driving the number 88 car since the beginning of the 2008 race schedule. Dale Jr. now drives the #88 AMP Energy/National Guard Chevrolet Impala SS in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series for Hendrick Motorsports, and drives in the Nationwide Series part-time for the #5 car for his own team, JR Motorsports. Dale Jr. co-owns JR Motorsports, a NASCAR team based in Mooresville, North Carolina which is co-owned by the owner of his Cup ride Rick Hendrick. It fields the #5 and #88 Chevrolet Impalas in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. JR Motorsports began in a shed on the property of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. in 1998 with just one employee, as the marketing division of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s race team. The original intent of the business was to help Earnhardt, Jr. sell t-shirts and negotiate sponsorship deals. It wasn't until 2002 that Earnhardt, Jr. turned the business into a race team, when T. J. Majors drove street stock division at Concord Motorsports Park, in North Carolina. The first win for the team came at Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, VA, in 2004.

Today the team operates out of a 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) race shop near Mooresville, North Carolina. Upon Earnhardt, Jr.'s signing with Hendrick Motorsports the Hendrick and JR Nationwide Series teams were merged.