Dale Earnhardt Jr. has his pants CAUGHT ON FIRE at Xfinity Collection because the NASCAR legend is left with a gap in his swimsuit after being pressured to flee his automotive

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was pressured to depart his automotive mid-race on Friday evening because the NASCAR legend’s car caught fireplace.

The 48-year-old was racing within the Xfinity Collection (NASCAR’s second tier) in Bristol – and at one level led the pack – earlier than a malfunction in his car pressured him to make an premature exit.

Video from the race exhibits Earnhardt Jr. telling his crew that there was a fireplace in his automotive, and smoke may very well be seen popping out of the automotive as effectively.

The motive force then pulled the automotive over earlier than being helped out by crew members of one other staff.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. needed to be helped out of his automotive by crew members of one other staff

Earnhardt Jr. is barely an occasional racer within the second-tier Xfinity Collection

‘We received a gap in my pants,’ he said afterwards. 

‘In some way or one other the shifter tunnel caught on fireplace. I noticed some smoke within the automotive and I smelt it, and I used to be like ‘hopefully that is not me.’ However that final lap I noticed an enormous fireball down within the tunnel within the automotive, and I felt it clearly, my uniform was burning up. And I used to be like, ‘I am unable to preserve going. I gotta cease.’ 

And often once you cease the fires get greater, so I pulled over by the pit stall, and a few of them guys had been fairly alert and so they helped me out.

‘I hate it. We had been gonna end within the prime 10, possibly prime 5, we had a shot of profitable it if the automotive was gonna run good on the finish. However, attempt to not mess no one’s evening up on the similar time, so it was laborious. However I had enjoyable.’

Earnhardt Jr. final raced within the NASCAR Cup Collection in 2017.