Dale Earnhardt Jr Reveals the Only Time He Had an Altercation With Danica Patrick

Dale Earnhardt Jr is the kind of guy you wouldn’t really get mad at. After all, it is for a reason he won the Most Popular Driver award so many years in a row. However, he’s a racecar driver, and like all racecar drivers inevitably do in their career, he too has messed up and pissed off a fellow driver.

One such instance includes former NASCAR and INDYCAR driver, Danica Patrick, an instance that Dale Jr. recently revealed in an appearance on a talk show.

The NASCAR Hall of Famer recalled how during a race at Kentucky, he was having some brakes issues, how he ran “out of brakes.”

When the host questioned how does one run out of brakes, Earnhardt Jr. said, “Well, the brakes cooked. Like I either got a bunch of debris on the wheel or whatever, and it cooked the break fluid, so the brake pedal would go to the floor and the brakes would not slow down the car.”

“So I was falling back to the pack,” he continued, “and I had been running behind for a little while and we went into the corner and she slowed down for the corner and I didn’t, and I ran in the back of her and put her in the fence.”

How did Danica Patrick react to Dale Earnhardt Jr putting her in the fence?

After recalling this incident, Dale Earnhardt Jr then went on to reveal how Patrick reacted to him putting her in the fence.

“We ran into pit road with each other. She was mad and she got out of the car and was like, ‘I don’t know what he was doing,'” he said.

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Dale Jr added that he told Patrick that he didn’t have any brakes, that he couldn’t stop. “You were in front of me and I hit you. It was just a bad deal,” he added.

“She was like, ‘If you didn’t have any brakes, you should’ve gotten off the track. She was right.”

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