# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-waltrip
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:05:21.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-waltrip"
name: "Michael Waltrip"
slug: "michael-waltrip"
description: "Michael Curtis \"Mikey\" Waltrip is an American former professional stock car racing driver, racing commentator, racing team owner, amateur ballroom dancing competitor and published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASCAR champion and racing commentator Darrell Waltrip. Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500, having won the race in 2001 and 2003. He is also a pre-race analyst for the NASCAR Cup Series and color commentator for the Xfinity Series and the Craftsman Truck Series broadcasts for Fox Sports. He last raced in the 2017 Daytona 500, driving the No. 15 Toyota Camry for Premium Motorsports. All four of his NASCAR Cup Series wins came on superspeedways driving for Dale Earnhardt Inc.."
tagline: "American racing driver, sports announcer, and businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Waltrip_2008_Daytona_500.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.560511987773426
  historical:           13.16618266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1798604/"
    handle:    "nm1798604"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelwaltrip.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Michael Waltrip"
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    title: "مايكل والتريپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waltrip"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q946057"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1241264"
    title: "Michael Waltrip"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump