No. Michael and Darrell Waltrip both have the same parents.
Through the 2011 season, Michael Waltrip has started 766Nascar Cup races, 279 Nationwide races (formerly known as the Busch Series) and 9 Truck Series races.
Michael's daughter Caitlin Marie is expecting a baby.
NASCAR stands for National Associatoin for Stock Car Auto Racing. A mechanic from Atlanta named Red Vogt came up with the acronim and the name. Red Vogt was the mechanic for Red Byron, NASCAR's first champion. it started from moonshiners . from Dawsonville ga into atlanta could get their cars "supped up" to outrun the law. The owner of Red Byrons car was Raymond Parks a known moonshiner who still owns a liquor store on Northside drive in Atlanta. Parks, Byron and Vogt were NASCARs first 'team'. these men all met with Bill France in Daytona at Hotel on the beach. They all came together to form the oganization that we all know as NASCAR today. If this interests you please find a book called DRIVING WITH THE DEVIL. It tells the early history of NASCAR and is an easy read.
As of July 27, 2009, he was still legally married to Elizabeth Waltrip. There is a mortgage document available online which proves this.
Michael Waltrip and Elizabeth "Buffy" Franks were divorced in 2010.
Apparently Michael attributes a lot of it to not dealing with the crash and death of a close friend. He finally came to terms with it shortly before his divorce was final, but not in time to save his marriage.
According to the New York Times: "In the middle of the night, he said, he texted his wife, Buffy, and said he now understood how he had sabotaged the marriage by going around frozen like that. They remain friendly, he said, but the divorce will be final any day. Life goes on."
Bret Michaels is 5 foot 9 inches. That can be 5' , 9" or 1.75 m.