Standing next to his team’s car before Thursday’s qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. looked at his sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, in amazement. “God dang,” he said to her before the invocation,

Dale Earnhardt Jr was emotional after Justin Allgaier raced the JR Motorsports car into the Daytona 500 for the first time on February 13. The NASCAR legend tells why.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. believes there would be a rush of mid-tier teams at Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota that rush into a new manufacturer’s arms if NASCAR does in fact add a fourth to the Cup Series sooner rather than later.