I saw this little interview with Rays wife .from a while back ....
A Team Effort
Mary Evernham attends about a dozen events a year, usually when school is out. She and the couple’s 12-year-old son, Ray J, catch the majority of Cup races on TV from the family’s Cornelius, N.C., home.
A longtime fan of motorsports, Mary met her husband while watching a neighbor race at a New Jersey racetrack in 1977. In those lean, pre-corporate sponsorship days, when Ray was a modified driver, he took any job necessary to raise race money. “He did whatever it took and never abandoned that goal,” recalls Mary. Regardless of the obstacles, “I knew he would be successful because he’s so self-driven,” she says.
Mary pitched in, too. “In the early ’80s, sponsors had started to pay $1,000 or so for the driver to wear a patch,” she says. “I would unload my sewing machine from the truck and stitch patches onto the drivers’ uniforms as fast as I could. It was also my job to measure the heat in the tires when the car first came off the racetrack. That and making sandwiches.”
A divorce lawyers dream case , Ray just cut her a check for half of everything you have ,oh and there will be monthly payments for the kid and to keep Mary in the style she has become acustomed to .
But you do get Erin Crocker for all those millions your giving up .....what a jamoke