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2025 Brundle was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2025 New Year Honours.
2023 During the commentary of the Spanish Grand Prix, Martin Brundle faced backlash for using the term 'Chinaman' to refer to Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu.
2023 Dale Earnhardt Jr. continued to race for JR Motorsports in the NASCAR season.
2022 Dale Earnhardt Jr. participated in the NASCAR racing season driving for JR Motorsports, achieving 45 points.
November 2022 Announced son Enzo's membership in the Red Bull Junior Team.
August 2022 Announced his candidacy for the Italian Senate representing the South American overseas constituency as a member of the Brothers of Italy political party, but was defeated by Italo-Argentine Mario Borghese.
October 12 2020 Earnhardt and Amy Reimann welcomed their second child, a daughter named Nicole Loraine Earnhardt.
2019 Earnhardt confirmed that he intended to participate in the Xfinity Series one-off entry at Darlington after the jet incident, finishing fifth in the race.
August 15 2019 A Cessna Citation Latitude private jet carrying Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy, daughter Isla Rose, and dog Gus was involved in a bounced landing that resulted in a fire; none of the passengers were seriously injured.
April 22 2019 Brenda Jackson, Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s mother, passed away at the age of 65 after battling cancer.
September 2018 Earnhardt Jr. raced in the Xfinity Series at Richmond, leading a significant portion of the race before finishing fourth.
April 30 2018 Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Reimann welcomed their first child, a daughter named Isla Rose Earnhardt.
2017 Brundle revealed that he suffered a heart attack while covering the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix for Sky Sports.
2017 At the Southern 500 at Darlington, Petty leads the field through pace laps in his Plymouth Belvedere and is humorously black flagged for staying out longer than expected.
2017 Returned to voice his character in Cars 3 as the crew chief of his nephew Cal Weathers.
October 2017 In his last career start at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Earnhardt Jr. finished 25th.
April 2017 Earnhardt Jr. announced that the 2017 season would be his final year driving full-time in NASCAR.
2016 Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced his intention to donate his brain for concussion research upon his death.
2016 Earnhardt won his 14th Most Popular Driver Award and announced that his marriage to Amy Reimann would take place on New Year's Eve.
2016 Established Fittipaldi Motors and collaborated with Pininfarina and HWA AG to create the Fittipaldi EF7 sports car project, though the car never entered production.
June 2016 Petty made an appearance on stage with Donald Trump.
June 2016 Made a public appearance on stage with Donald Trump.
June 17 2015 Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced his engagement to his longtime girlfriend, Amy Reimann.
May 2015 He won at Talladega, marking his sixth victory at the track.
2014 At age 67, entered the 6 Hours of São Paulo race.
March 2014 The Richard Petty Museum moves back to its original location in Level Cross, North Carolina.
March 25 2014 Lynda Petty, Richard's wife, died of cancer at her home in Level Cross, North Carolina at age 72.
February 2014 Earnhardt Jr. won his second Daytona 500, leading at critical points and holding off challengers to claim victory.
2013 He secured his 11th consecutive Most Popular Driver Award, setting a new record.
2013 Started writing a regular monthly blog column on the official McLaren website.
June 2013 Martin Brundle released his second book, 'The Martin Brundle Scrapbook,' co-authored with Philip Porter, which documents his life through memorabilia and photographs.
2012 Birth of his daughter Vittoria.
December 2012 Married economist Rossana Fanucchi in São Paulo after eleven years of partnership.
June 2012 Brundle returned to competitive racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, partnering with his son Alex in a Greaves Motorsport-run Zytek-Nissan LMP2, finishing 15th overall and 8th in class.
June 2012 Earnhardt Jr. ended a 143-race winless streak with a victory at the Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan.
2011 Brundle returned to racing for United Autosports in the Daytona 24 Hours, driving a Ford-powered Riley and finishing fourth overall.
2011 Brundle signed for Sky Sports' coverage of Formula One.
2011 Earnhardt Jr. announced a 5-year contract extension with Hendrick Motorsports, solidifying his future with the team.
2011 Became Chairman of Motorsport.com and began embracing social media.
2011 Featured in the show Modern HotrodZ; Petty's Garage began building custom cars for the public.
June 2011 Brundle completed a one-off Formula One test for Pirelli at Jerez, driving 70 laps on all their tyre compounds shortly before the 2011 European Grand Prix.
May 2011 Petty was selected as the Grand Marshal for the 2011 STP 400 Sprint Cup Series race.
November 2010 Richard Petty and an investment group including Medallion Financial Corp. and Douglas G. Bergeron signed and closed the sale on racing assets of Richard Petty Motorsports.
July 2010 Earnhardt Jr. won the Subway Jalapeño 250 in the Nationwide Series, racing a car painted to tribute his father.
May 23 2010 Inducted into the first class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

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