Darrell Waltrip Off Road Center (2024)

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Is Darrell Waltrip still married to Stevie? ›

He has been married to Stevie Waltrip since August 15, 1969. They have two children.

Our dealership was established by the Darrell Waltrip Automotive Group, so it combines state-of-the-art facilities with decades of experience.

Waltrip was 72 when he hung up his microphone for the final time in 2019. After nearly 50 years of racing and broadcasting, he retired to spend more time with his family. But retirement isn't all Waltrip thought it would be. He readily admits he misses the action that racing and being at race tracks brings.

Stevie R. Waltrip

Darrell Waltrip / Spouse (m. 1969)

As he recounted in an interview for the Fox Sports Net series Beyond the Glory in 2001, Waltrip gained his release by purposely breaking one of Johnson's cardinal rules: asking for a raise (Johnson forbade his drivers from discussing money matters, including raises, with him).

A former dealership service mechanic who was once an ace on the quick lube machine at his father's Chevrolet store in Newton, N.C., Earnhardt now has a dealership of his own in Tallahassee. Actually, make that two. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Michael Curtis Waltrip (born April 30, 1963) is an American former professional stock car racing driver, racing commentator, racing team owner, amateur ballroom dancing competitor and published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASCAR champion and racing commentator Darrell Waltrip.

Tex' sons, Hal and Jim Babe, eventually joined him in the business as did later, his grandsons, Dodge, Derby, and Bull. Together the Earnhardt family is at the helm of one of the nation's largest privately held automotive empires and is the most recognized auto dealer group in the southwest.

He won Nashville track championships in 1970 and 1973 and used that success as a springboard into NASCAR's big leagues. The Waltrips still reside in Franklin with their daughters, Jessica Leigh and Sara. Waltrip retired as a driver at the end of the 2000 season, but he didn't retire from the sport.

The company issued a harsh rebuke of MWR last week after NASCAR sanctioned the organization for its shenanigans in the Sept. 7 race at Richmond. MWR was punished for deliberately manipulating the outcome of the race in an attempt to get Truex into the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field.

What does Michael Waltrip do now? ›

A member of FOX NASCAR's Cup Series coverage since 2012 and its Truck Series team since 2004, Waltrip also contributes analysis on NASCAR RACEDAY, the network's prerace show, and on NASCAR RACE HUB, its daily show on FS1.

#1 Dale Earnhardt Jr - $300M

Apart from racing, Dale owns Junior Motorsports, is an author and analyst for NBC. With a net worth like that, Dale is unarguably the richest and most popular NASCAR driver.

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Jarrett : Yeah, I would say that two of my closest friends during that time were Kyle Petty and Michael Waltrip. Kyle was someone that I grew up around the sport with. And as life would have it, here we are, both of us working for NBC and working together on the pre-race and post-race show.

19. Michael Waltrip, Net Worth: $35 million. Michael Waltrip, the brother of NASCAR champion Darrell Waltrip, had left a tradition in the sport. Waltrip has achieved a successful career with lots of highlights; he was a two-time Daytona 500 winner.

The championship, the first of his career, came 20 years after his dad, Brian Waltrip, won a Mini-Trucks Series title at Langley – a NASCAR-sanctioned paved oval in Hampton, Virginia. Brian started racing go karts when Hunter was young, and eventually moved up to trucks.