If you’re a NASCAR fan, chances are you’re familiar Dale Earnhardt Jr.
The son of seven time NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt and a Hall of Fame driver himself, Junior is obviously the most well-known of the Intimidator’s children. But you’re probably also familiar with Kelley Earnhardt Miller, the co-owner of Junior’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Series team JR Motorsports and one of the best businesswomen in the sport.
Then of course there’s Kerry Earnhardt, who’s the half-brother of Dale Jr. and Kelley and the only child of Earnhardt and his first wife, Latane.
Heck, most NASCAR fans are probably even familiar with (or at least aware of) Taylor Earnhardt, who is the child of Earnhardt and his widow, Teresa Earnhardt.
But most NASCAR fans aren’t as familiar with Dale Earnhardt’s lesser-known son Figgy – or at least they weren’t until yesterday.
Born Figmund Newton Earnhardt, it turns out there was at least one NASCAR fan who remembered Figgy Earnhardt, and took to Reddit to try to find updated information on the forgotten son of Dale Earnhardt:
“I distinctly remember Dale Earnhardt having an additional son named Figgy Earnhardt alongside Dale Jr and Kerry. One of my other friends also swears he remembers this son.
I feel like I’m going crazy searching online. I got curious one day a couple weeks ago about what happened to Figgy cause I didn’t remember him going into nascar like Dale’s other sons. I can find no trace of him online. I’m posting this here to see if anyone else remembers Figgy Earnhardt / knows why he seems to have been scrubbed from the internet.”
Now in case you haven’t figured out what’s going on here… no, Dale Earnhardt did not have a since-forgotten son named Figgy. In fact, it appears that the post was just somebody trolling the NASCAR subreddit for laughs:
My friend started it btw lol didnt think this would get lots of attention lol pic.twitter.com/UMQCWUGX4f
— Chris Ortiz (@ChrisOrtiz0201) April 5, 2026
But from that shitpost came some of the best content we’ve got from social media in a long time, with NASCAR fans sharing memes and creating an entire backstory for the fictional Figgy Earnhardt:
“I think his full name was Figlas Earnhardt, it just got shortened to Figgy”
“He was the result of an affair so he went to live with his mother and her husband. These days he goes by the name of Chase Elliott”
“He had a traumatic injury at Chuck E Cheese as a young adult and was never the same..”
“Fun fact, ol’ Fightin’ Figgy Earnhardt went and got himself banned from every single zoo in Texas.”
“I got in a fist fight with Figgy outside of a Winn Dixie after a race in Hickory in 1996.”
“Figgy was lost on the same flight as the other missing family member, Amelia Earnhardt”
“I remember he drove the Fig Newton car for 3 years in the nationwide series. He would go around the garage fist bumping people saying “fruit n cake baby!!””
“Figmund Newton Earnhardt is his full name. The first human to partake in greyhound racing. Unfortunately, Figgy got lost on his way home from the Plainfield greyhound track after chasing a rabbit and wound up in DPRK and that’s why we don’t hear about him anymore.”
“Figgy was disowned by the Earnhardts, moved to Europe, and changed his last name to “Verstappen””
“Old Figgy is still selling appliances just outside of Mooresville”
Oh, Figgy.
I’m not gonna lie, I really need Dale Jr. to address the “Figgy” stuff on his podcast, because this has been the best laugh I’ve had on the internet in quite a while.
Now, to be clear, Figgy Earnhardt isn’t real, and no, he’s not a long lost son of a NASCAR legend. But sometimes the internet sees a joke and runs with it – and just like that, Figgy Earnhardt became a NASCAR legend himself.
I hope you’re well out there Figgy, wherever you are.
