Dale Earnhardt Jr., Amy Earnhardt Love Story

“Oh yeah, I do it all,’’ Dale, who retired from full-time racing at the end of 2017, told USA Today about his new adventures in diapers, bottles and bath time. “I want Isla to really know me and to know she can really depend on me.”

Not least because that wasn’t the sort of relationship he had with his late father, NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, who was killed in a crash during the 2001 Daytona 500.

“I didn’t expect to want to be that involved,’’ Dale said. “When you don’t know about the love that you’re going to have for that child, you’re like, ‘Oh, that sounds like work, changing diapers,’ and I was telling myself, ‘I’m going to do some of it. I’m going to make myself do it.’”

Being a hands-on dad suited him like an Alpinestar Glove, and his and Amy’s second daughter, Nicole Loraine Earnhardt—Loraine after Dale’s mom, Brenda Loraine Jackson, who died of cancer in 2019—arrived on Oct. 12, 2020.