{"id":948430,"date":"2026-10-27T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:10:09","slug":"nascar-makes-amends-for-2004-dale-earnhardt-jr-swearing-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948430\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR makes amends for 2004 Dale Earnhardt Jr. swearing fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/dale-earnhardt-jr\/15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/a> was celebrating yet another Talladega win. In Victory Lane after the EA Sports 500, Earnhardt used a profanity when he hilariously said about his fifth Talladega win: &#8220;It don&#8217;t mean sh*t right now, daddy&#8217;s done won here ten times so I gotta do a little more winning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast apologized for his &#8216;enthusiastic language,&#8217; but NASCAR took a bizarrely harsh stance on the moment. The Sanctioning Body later fined Earnhardt $10,000 and docked him 25 championship driver and owner points.<\/p>\n<p>Well, fast forward to 2026 and NASCAR is in a very different place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-cup\/news\/nascar-to-pay-out-money-for-every-time-a-driver-swears-on-the-radio-during-the-chase-\/10852575\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There is currently a swear jar where NASCAR happily adds $5 for every time someone swears on the radio during a NASCAR Cup Chase race<\/a>, and the official series account has a running list of the most popular swear words.<\/p>\n<p>Following Talladega, drivers and team members were caught swearing 1,584 times during the first eight races of the Chase, bringing the total to $7,920. But what does this have to do with Dale Jr.&#8217;s swearing fine from over two decades ago? Well, the total is now $17,920 as NASCAR has donated another $10,000 to the jar as an apology of sorts for the 2004 fine issued to Dale Jr., but no, he&#8217;s still not getting his points back.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR also donated an additional $10,000 to the Dale Jr. Foundation, further making amends for the questionable penalty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sh*t, I guess they gave me my money back. Donated to the foundation. That&#8217;s pretty cool &#8230; where&#8217;s the points?&#8221; said Dale Jr. in reaction to the donation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0            <\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2004, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was celebrating yet another Talladega win. In Victory Lane after the EA Sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,14056,634,3628,324624,82,105101,98034],"class_list":["post-948430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-makes-amends-for-2004-dale-earnhardt-jr-swearing-fine","tag-sports","tag-talladega-ii","tag-talladega-superspeedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}