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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is going out on his own terms

Fans have voted Earnhardt the most popular driver in NASCAR for 14 straight years

NASCAR IS NOT THE FIRST PLACE ONE WOULD LOOK TO FIND a voice of the resistance. Yet after Donald Trump railed against NFL players’ kneeling during the national anthem, the biggest name in the sport took to Twitter with a rebuttal. “All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. posted, adapting a John F. Kennedy quote to 140 characters. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make

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