Dale Earnhardt Jr. Appears To Have Something In The Works With His Iconic Budweiser #8

What could it be? Dale Earnhardt Jr. may have driven the #88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for the last half of his career, but his most iconic ride will always be the #8 Budweiser car he drove for his dad's race team, Dale Earnhardt Inc. Of course NASCAR fans know how that one ended, when Earnhardt asked for ownership of the race team from his stepmother Teresa Earnhardt, the widow of the legendary Dale Earnhardt. Teresa wasn't willing to give Dale ownership of DEI, the team lost NASCAR's most popular driver, and ended up closing up shop just a few years later. When Dale left DEI to go to Hendrick, his stepmother wouldn't let him take his #8 with him either, forcing Junior to switch his car number to 88. And during his final season, his longtime sponsor Budweiser released a tribute video to honor Earnhardt Jr. before his last race in the NASCAR Cup Series - but fans quickly noticed that the commercial didn’t feature Jr.’s #8 on the car, or any of the trademarks of Dale’s DEI car that were still owned by Teresa, leading many to assume that Teresa refused to allow Budweiser to use the DEI trademarks in honoring Dale Jr. The relationship between Junior and Teresa has always been a rocky one. But this past June, Teresa may have extended an olive branch to her stepson when she gave up the trademark to the #8, allowing Junior to claim it to use for himself for the first time since he left DEI. Junior hasn't spoken much about his plans for the trademark, whether that's running a #8 throwback paint scheme at some point or releasing throwback merch from his days driving for his dad's race team. But apparently he has something up his sleeve... Tonight on Twitter (or X, if you insist on calling it that), Junior changed his profile picture to a photo of himself celebrating his 2004 Daytona 500 win in the #8 Budweiser Chevy. And he also tweeted a promotional photo for the 2005 #8 Budweiser commemorative cans. What could it mean? New Budweiser cans with the familiar #8 Chevy? A throwback paint scheme on his race car? Who knows at this point, but either way, Budweiser is excited about it. https://twitter.com/budweiserusa/status/1848534086828113972 And I have a feeling Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans are going to appreciate whatever he's got up his sleeve.