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HARNESS For some reason Earnhardt's left lap belt failed. A new design will reduce the force on the shoulders and neck...
...around, smashing into one another, Tony Stewart's Pontiac soaring through the air, ripping the hood off another car, metal clanging, a 16-minute red flag to clean up the mess--and only a bum shoulder, Stewart's, as a result. Then on the last turn of the last lap, Earnhardt's famous black No. 3 Chevy Monte Carlo plowed--thud--into the wall and drifted back out, nose smashed. No fire, no catapulting frames. Ironhead had walked away from stuff that looked a lot worse than this. "No one ever expected Dale Earnhardt to die in a race...
...Bing's mother, Yee, slips off her sandals as she steps into the hut, clutching her 14-month-old baby. She sits down next to her son and while the baby scrambles to crawl from her lap, she begins pulling the paper backing from a piece of tinfoil, readying the foil for a smoke. Her hands are a whir of finger-flashing activity?assembling and disassembling a lighter, unclogging the pipe, unwrapping the tablets, straightening the foil, lighting the speed and then taking the hit. She exhales finally, blowing smoke just over her baby's face. Bing asks his mother...
DIED. DALE EARNHARDT, 49, America's most famous stock car racing champion and a Southern cultural icon, after crashing in the last lap of the Daytona 500 race; in Daytona Beach, Florida. Racing runs in the Earnhardt family?Earnhardt's father was a driver, as is his son, Dale Jr., who finished second in the Daytona 500. In a 26-year career, he won 76 races and seven national championships, earning more than $41 million...
Heading into the last 50 meters of the race, Baker was running in the lead, trailed closely by Peter Hollatz of Brown. But as the two entered the homestretch of the final lap, Baker veered to his right, from lane one over into lane three...