Legal news rocked NASCAR fans last week when Dale Earnhardt Jr. and QB Lamar Jackson clashed over a trademark No. 8 dispute and the Legacy Motor Club sued Rick Ware Racing over a charter. The NASCAR Hall of Famer shared some of the episode’s secret facts about the trademark issue on the “Dale Jr.Download” podcast on Tuesday, April 8.
Lamar Jackson and his predicament: he opposes Dale Earnhardt Jr., the NASCAR legend, over No. 8
Lamar Jackson had already contested the trademark case against Earnhardt of NASCAR. It should be mentioned that N0.8 and Earnhardt have been involved in the sport since the 1990s.
Teresa Earnhardt, his stepmother, assumed leadership of DEI following the death of his father. “So we learned that the Budweiser No. 8 trademark is not gonna be continued and renewed by Teresa, and we were a bit surprised by that because she kept the No. 1 trademark,” the NASCAR Hall of Famer remarked, providing clarification and insight into the timeline. Teresa and I haven’t spoken. I’m not sure why she made that choice. However, we saw a chance to call and try to obtain the trademark,” Earnhardt stated. “We’ve been successful in that process. Additionally, we applied for the trademark of the JR Motorsports No. 8 that Josh Berry and the other guys have been racing for the past few years as a backup plan couple years,” he further added.
We thought that this Bud No. 8 thing might get hazy or perhaps not materialize at all, so that was kind of a backup plan. Earnhardt stated, “Therefore, we filed for the other number.” “Well, I found out that Lamar was disputing our trademark application on social media around the same time as everyone else. I wasn’t being sued by him. He’s simply disputing it,” he added, elaborating on the situation.
It doesn’t stop there; after advising Jackson on the conflict, Troy Aikman of the Cowboys also finds himself embroiled in scandal. Speaking to an Instagram post by Sports Illustrated, he claimed that Lamar was receiving poor advice. Along with him, I went through the same legalities. Who will come next? Despite all of this, Earnhardt previously stated that he would not discuss or argue with Lamar about it. “I wasn’t going to spend thousands of dollars with my lawyers to fight for something that I didn’t need, and I wasn’t going to argue with Lamar over something that I didn’t plan on using,” he stated.
