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...Earnhardt thrived, two elements of his driving career--his readiness to mix it up and his regular place at the center of crashes--continued to make him controversial. His great rival of the 1980s, Darrell Waltrip, once spoke for the field when he said, "You ought to get 10 bonus points for taking Earnhardt out of a race." Neil Bonnett, Earnhardt's best friend at the time, said, "If I can ever catch him, I'm gonna knock the s___ out of him." Bonnett, it is eerie to note, died in 1994 after crashing his Chevrolet into the wall...
...Earnhardt, the doctors say, died instantly when he careened into the wall between the third and fourth turn of the final lap of the first race of the 2001 Winston Cup season, making one last push for victory lane. Michael Waltrip won, in one of Dale's cars, and Dale Jr. finished second, and the peculiarities of the moment allowed the pair to savor some unalloyed Daytona glory before the news caught up to them that The Intimidator's tame-looking crash had been his last...
Some years ago, someone asked three-time Winston Cup champion Darrell Waltrip why racing fans loved Dale Earnhardt. "Did you ever look in the grandstands?" Waltrip said. "There's your answer. Dale is one of them...
...circuit had its first big network TV contract - a six-year, $2.4 billion deal with Fox - an expansion of the schedule to cities in the West, Midwest and Northeast, and some new rules designed to make the sport more exciting to the general public. Fox, with the colorful Waltrip in the booth, eagerly applied its particular brand of glitzy graphics and breathless hype to the proceedings. No longer was stock-car racing going to be the Roger Clinton of professional sports - it was making its bid to join baseball, football, basketball, in the American sport mainstream...
...Hailing from Kannapolis, N.C., Earnhardt was a good ol' boy who made good, earning $41 million and starting a business, Dale Earnhardt Inc., that owned the car of his son, Dale Jr., who finished second, and winner Michael Waltrip (younger brother of Darrell). His driving style ruffled plenty of feathers, but in 1998, when Earnhardt won his only Daytona 500 on his 20th try, someone from nearly every Winston Cup crew in the infield reached out to slap his hand as he drove toward victory lane...