Dale Shearer (racing driver)

Dale J. Shearer (born August 26, 1959) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series and the ARCA Menards Series East, driving the No. 98 Toyota Camry for Shearer Speed Racing.

Racing career
Shearer first gained an interest in racing after his father worked as a pit steward for Kline's Speedway, but would not compete in a race until the age of twenty-one, when he would compete at various dirt-tracks driving street cars that were converted into racing cars.

Shearer made his ARCA Re/Max Series debut in 2008, driving his self-owned No. 73 Ford at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, where he would finish 28th due to handling issues. He would make two more starts at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds and Salem Speedway. He would make two more starts the following year with a best finish of 27th at Berlin Raceway. After not competing in the series the following year, Shearer would return in 2011, making starts at Springfield and DuQuoin. He would enter in five more races in 2012, and would earn a best finish of seventeenth at Winchester Speedway.

In 2014, Shearer would run five races during the season, and in the last race of the year at Kansas Speedway, he was involved in a multi-car crash involving Galen Hassler and Tom Berte, finishing 26th. He would run a majority of his races from 2015 to 2018 with his own team.

In 2019, Shearer would run the No. 69 Ford in collaboration with Kimmel Racing at Madison International Speedway, where he would finish eighteenth and last due to clutch issues. He would run in two more races at Elko Speedway and Springfield.

After not running in ARCA competition from 2020 to 2022, Shearer announced that he would return to the series with his own team, now Shearer Speed Racing, in the No. 98 Toyota for select events in 2023. He later announced that he would run the full ARCA Menards Series East season that year as well. Although he would not enter the race at Talladega, he would run the full East Series schedule. Josh’s Eggs, a longtime racing sponsor, would adorn the side of the car for the full 2023 ARCA East Series schedule. After finishing fourteenth at the first two races at Five Flags Speedway and Dover Motor Speedway, he would go on to finish tenth at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, his first top-ten finish of his career, and would later finish eleventh at the next race at Flat Rock Speedway. At Iowa Speedway, he would finish eighteenth due to a transmission issue after thirty laps, and at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, he would finish nineteenth due to handling issues. At the Milwaukee Mile, he would start 22nd and once again finish nineteenth after suffering mechanical issues that stalled his car down the backstretch which necessitated a caution. At Bristol Motor Speedway, he would start 25th, but would retire the car a quarter of the way through the race due to mechanical issues and be classified in 24th. He would go on to finish sixth in the final points standings for the East Series.

In 2024, Shearer announced that he would once again run the full schedule in the East Series, as well as attempting the races at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.

Personal life
Shearer currently resides in Alhambra, Illinois, where he is employed as a computer programmer with the Madison County, Illinois, government.

Shearer and his wife, Dianna, have two children and four grandchildren.