Word: ironheart
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...father's son. Born in Kannapolis, N.C., in 1951, he didn't take naturally to school--he would drop out in the ninth grade--but loved being around cars. Ralph Earnhardt, known as Ironheart, was a short-track racing god and taught his son to wrangle a stock car. Dale married at 17, and he and his first wife had a son, Kerry. By the time he began his pro racing career at age 24 in 1975, Earnhardt had a young family to support and, more than most other drivers, was all business and no fooling. When strapped for cash...
...that NASCAR is a Big Business that doesn't stop for one man, even though it's the man who helped make it big. So they planned to rev the engines and drop the green flag Sunday. No one in the vast, grieving NASCAR family felt that Ironhead Earnhardt, Ironheart's boy, would have wanted it any other...
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