NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife, Amy Earnhardt, are parents for the second time.
The 46-year-old “NASCAR on NBC” analyst and his wife announced the news on his podcast, the Dale Jr. Download, UsWeekly reported.
“Me and Amy have been waiting on the birth of our second child and that happened Monday,” he said.
“We got a healthy baby girl.” he added. “Happens all the time... all over the country, all over the world. Feels a little weird to get congratulated but it feels pretty awesome. Amy had a pretty good pregnancy. She said it felt like a long one only because of the COVID and all that.”
The little one, named Nicole Lorraine, is named after her mother and Earnhardt Jr.'s mother, taking each of their respective middle names, NBC Sports reported.
In March, Amy Earnhardt, 38, announced she was expecting in an Instagram video of big sister Isla, born in 2018, saying, “I’m gonna be a sister!” In another clip, Amy Earnhardt showed her husband’s reaction to the news a few weeks earlier.
The couple married in 2016.
In 2019, the then-family of three survived a Tennessee plane crash that ended up in flames. The plane, which contained the family, their dog and two pilots, slid off the runway at Elizabethton Municipal Airport and caught fire after hitting a fence. The National Transportation and Safety Board said the family managed to escape through the plane’s main door as the cabin filled with smoke.
Three passengers had minor injuries, according to the NTSB report.
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