Racing’s rough-and-tumble stars have long moonlighted as social media comedians and hapless dads, turning parental pratfalls into viral gold. Dale Earnhardt Jr., for example, has spent episodes of his podcast cataloguing the sport’s greatest gags including Jimmie Johnson’s legendary kids’-bike prank on Martin Truex Jr.’s crew after a late-race incident at Charlotte cost Truex a shot at victory, and so, crew chief Cole Pearn jokingly told Johnson he could make amends by buying the team road bikes. Even off-track videos from drivers doing whisper-challenge reels to late-night show bits have been collected on YouTube as the best stunts that have left crews laughing for years. But if the paddock is fertile ground for pranks, parenthood has been the latest playground, and Tony Stewart’s entry i

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