Thanks :)This is also somehow connected to the Alabama Motorsports Park that they are part of in Mobile. He was down there looking for an apartment recently.
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Alabama Motorsports Park gates will be fully operational by 2010 in South Alabama. The complex will boast three racing venues: an oval track, which is branded A Dale Earnhardt Jr Speedway, a road course and a karting track—and will accommodate stock car, truck, open wheel, sprint and motorcycle racing.
In addition to motorsports, the master plan includes a wide variety of commercial enterprises including residential, hospitality, retail, restaurants and location based entertainment.
The world’s fascination with the automobile has morphed into a mainstream love affair. The automobile as we know it today was not invented in a single day by a single person. Ideas built upon previous successes and new ideas reflect the evolution that took place worldwide to invent the automobile. As the car itself was an evolution so has been the vast world of racing. Some enthusiasts like to collect and restore vehicles. There are others that browse car shows annually. Then there are those who are race fans.
Alabama Motorsports Park invites racers, fans, sanctioning bodies and entertainment seekers to come and feel the thrill of A Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway.
The sanctuary will give Earnhardt a place to escape the demands that come from his popularity, even though it's his ease in front of the camera, his off-the-cuff comments and his Generation X appeal that makes him the idol of the “Junior Nation.”
While the house may be lavish by everyday standards, there are other drivers in the series who have built bigger, more elaborate homes, according to Mike Davis, a close personal aide to Earnhardt. “You have to remember,” Davis says, “that for most of his career, Junior has lived in a two-level modular home. So this is something that he's been waiting to build. It's going to be nice, but it won't be as elaborate as one might expect.”
Earnhardt would also be happy if less were expected of drivers. Case in point. At a recent round-table discussion involving the track promoters of Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI), several stressed that they'd like to see drivers do more to help the fans and the tracks in order to sell more tickets at those facilities.
Upon hearing that during a break in his commercial shoot, Earnhardt fired back with a message of his own.
“The race track owners want drivers to do more? Yeah, right. They need to go back to work,” he said. “They forgot what it's like to sell tickets. That's their problem. They ain't had to sell tickets for a long time and none of them remember how or knew how or ever learned how.
“They need to get back to working hard and doing their promotions and putting packages together for race fans. They don't want to cut the ticket price but they probably should and get these hotels to quit gouging these people. They can dump that responsibility on drivers all they want but the responsibility really lies in their hands to sell race tickets and they have to get creative in doing it. We already do a lot. We do [bleeping] plenty and they are full of [bleep].”
Earnhardt believes the risk versus reward for a driver offering his opinion often leads to ridicule. That is why some drivers don't open up to the fans and the media.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bruce_martin/01/30/dalejr/?eref=sircrc