Former NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer, now a commentator for NASCAR on Fox and the 2008 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion, may not have a shelf full of trophies as big as his rivals but he counts his wife, Lorra, and their two children as his greatest victories. However, interestingly, the couple’s story didn’t begin as a romance but as a friendship, with the two first knowing each other as best buddies.
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On her recent appearance on Bless Your Hardt’ with Amy Earnhardt, Lorra shared how their relationship took shape, and it was anything but conventional. She recalled meeting Bowyer through mutual friends, and their first date played out awkwardly with her tagging along as a third wheel on one of his movie outings with someone else, acting as his wingman.
As she remembered, “We didn’t date for a long time. It was kind of funny because, for a while, he would date other people, but we would just be friends… I was out of a relationship, and he was out of a relationship. And I just didn’t, I didn’t want anything…. We went on a blind date together, but he was going on the date… So, like he was like, ‘Hey, man. Will you just come be my wingman?”
However, Lorra confirmed that the two had dinner together, and they ended up going home.
That dynamic carried on like a cat-and-mouse game for a while, with the two circling each other before things finally shifted. Lorra recalled the turning point when Bowyer swapped a Jack Daniel’s sponsorship for Cheerios.
“We first started dating, and he started the Cheerios cuz I remember we just started… I’m like, ‘Okay, is this going to work?’ And he switched from Jack Daniels to Cheerios General Mills. I was like, ‘Yes, this might work.’ I was like, ‘Thank God.'”
Eventually, the relationship blossomed into something more. Bowyer proposed in December 2013, and the couple married in April 2014. Later that year, in October, they welcomed their son, Cash Aaron, followed by their daughter, Parsley Elizabeth, in December 2016.
