“Would I love to be doing it? Absolutely, I love the competitiveness, the adrenaline that rushes when you’re in a race car,” Kelley Earnhardt said about her passion for racing. She wasn’t seen as the flag bearer from the Earnhardt family, but there was a time where she was leading the charge behind the well better than her brothers, Dale Jr, and Kerry.

Her late-model career in the mid-’90s showcased grit and raw talent, racing weekly at Myrtle Beach and Hickory, she quickly earned a reputation not just as Dale Earnhardt’s daughter, but as a force in her own right. The racing garage of the ’90s was hardly tethered to subtlety. When Danica Patrick entered JR Motorsports, Kelley found solace in seeing another woman behind the wheel. Even as Kelley carved her place in the garage, the Earnhar

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