"He never pictured himself as a race car driver": Rodney Childers recalls bond with Dale Earnhardt Jr. during high school days

Renowned NASCAR Crew Chief Rodney Childers recently touched upon his school memories with Dale Earnhardt Jr. In a conversation with Kenny Wallace, Childers revealed that he shared the same high school with Dale Jr. at Mooresville.

Dale Jr. was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina on October 10, 1974. He was raised there initially, but he moved to Mooresville in his senior year and joined the Mooresville Senior High School, from where he graduated in 1992.

During his time at Mooresville school, he met Rodney Childers, who is a Mooresville native and was born on June 7, 1976. Recalling his school days, Childers told Kenny Wallace in the Kenny Wallace Conversations:

"You know with me growing up with Dale Jr. and going to high school with him and sitting beside each other at school. We went to High School together, we sat beside in Mooresville Senior High School.

"We sat right beside each other in drafting class and that was before he even raced and I was racing! And it was so cool because he never pictured himself as a race car driver."

While Dale Jr. and Childers graduated from the same school, their future turned out to be a bit different. Even though they were associated with the sport, the former became a driver, while the latter, a crew chief.

The Mooresville-born crew chief has recently worked for Josh Berry in Stewart-Haas Racing just before the team went defunct. However, he is mostly known for his days with Kevin Harvick.

Childers and Harvick won the 2014 Cup Series championship together with Stewart-Haas Racing. As SHR went defunct, he decided to move to Spire Motorsports to be the crew chief of Justin Haley's #7 Chevrolet Camaro.

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Rodney Childers shares Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s egg throwing story

During his conversation with Kenny Wallace, Rodney Childers revealed how Dale Earnhardt Jr. once threw eggs all night one night. Recalling the interesting story, Childers said:

"He wanted me to do that Dale Jr. Download one time and we got to talk and all kinds of stories and I started telling some of them and he didn't even remember like throwing eggs all night one night and doing this and that. He's like, 'I don't think I remember that.'"

NASCAR Cup Series driver, Kevin Harvick, NASCAR Hall of Famer, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and crew chief Rodney Childers - Source: Getty

Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired from full-time Cup Series racing at the end of 2017. However, he is still connected to the sport and currently operates Xfinity Series team JR Motorsports.