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Originally Posted by Danzig
teresa didn't go to the track much over the years, and i certainly can't blame her for not going now...... i don't follow the sport much at all anymore.
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No offense, but it sounds like you didn't follow the sport much before either. I'm far from an expert but I don't recall seeing too many of Dale's win circle celebrations when Theresa and Taylor Nicole wasn't there with him. No way I have an exact count but Theresa was there a lot. I can understand her lacking a desire to go now but if you are going to run a company that revolves around racing, I would suggest that she needs to be where the racing actually occurs - at the track.
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Originally Posted by Danzig
and i don't see why she would have to go to-as for putting her life on the line in a car, i don't see how that has anything to do with whether she can run dei--
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My point is that Jr is the face of the racing part of the company. He takes the risks by driving the car. Her risks are purely financial. Jr wants to win - he and his sister apparently don't feel that DEI racing, under Theresa's leadership, is getting it done. By obtaining 51% control of the racing part of the company, they can run it the way they see fit so as to make it a championship caliber racing organization while not having to have everything approved by Theresa. I don't see this as a hostile takeover of the entire company with the intent on running Theresa out while taking bread off the table of her child. I'll go back to the word you used that I had the problem with - "entitled". I don't see any entitlement issue coming into play here at all. I see it as two smart savvy business people (Jr and Kelly) trying to obtain a racing company their father started and make it thrive, as a tribute to their father.
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Originally Posted by Danzig
again, if dale wanted that, wouldn't he have made that clear?
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Perhaps he did - verbally. But you are asking a question none of us could ever answer without having read the will or without being privy to all of Sr's conversations. Moreso, and to further speculate, one could say that by Dale and Kelly taking 51% control of DEI racing, and if they were able to turn it into a championship winning team, perhaps all 4 of the Earnhardt children would prosper more than what they will with Theresa running the racing company. Then again, maybe not - maybe they would run it into the ground.
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Originally Posted by Danzig
i just think it's a shame how teresa is being portrayed here. bad enough she had to bury her husband, and then deal with all the bs with autopsy photos etc. now her step son is trying to take away what she and her husband built.
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Not sure where Theresa is being portrayed in any way other than what she is - she obviously is a good businesswoman who has decided not to give up control of her company. That's her choice. And now her driver has decided to go elsewhere to try to win a championship. Clearly, if he thought he could win one with DEI, he'd be sticking around. His actions speak volumes for how he views Theresa's racing management. He knows better than both of us ever could.