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Bret44

Bret44

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Can't believe there hasn't been a thread on this yet...

It has been 14 years today since the Dale Earnhardt passed away. The best there was and the best there ever will be.

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The day NASCAR died for me....

I keep trying to get back into it but just can't without him out there.
 
It's been longer since it happened than how old I was at the time. That feels weird. Can't believe it was that long ago already.
 
Bret44 said:
Can't believe there hasn't been a thread on this yet...

It has been 14 years today since the Dale Earnhardt passed away. The best there was and the best there ever will be.
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Not a nascar fan, but i think some Richard Petty fans would disagree with the best ever claim. Was a huge loss for nascar which will never be filled.
 
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CycloneRulzzz said:
Not a nascar fan, but i think some Richard Petty fans would disagree with the best ever claim. Was a huge loss for nascar which they have never will be filled.
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Tied for number of cup wins and ran less years. I think Dale had better compition than Petty did as well. I loved me some old school STP #43, but that Black #3 was the most feared car in NASCAR history.
 
CycloneRulzzz said:
Not a nascar fan, but i think some Richard Petty fans would disagree with the best ever claim. Was a huge loss for nascar which they have never will be filled.
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Probably debatable but what Dale did for NASCAR Petty could not even dream of touching.
 
Agree. Dale was a marketing god that took that sport to an amazing climb of TV networks and some really serious money.
 
RING4CY said:
The 2001 Daytona 500 was the first Nascar race I ever watched.
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Wow. I don't watch near as much as I used too, but as a kid I would watch all the time. I was 12 when Dale died, but I remeber being upstairs in my bedroom playing NASCAR 99 when my dad came up and told me. I couldn't believe it. It is like the time my Sister told me Derrick Thomas died. I was sitting in the lunch room at school. Two moments I will never forget.
 
RING4CY said:
The 2001 Daytona 500 was the first Nascar race I ever watched.
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that's quite the coincidence, me too. And I yelled at my Dad to turn it because "they're just going in circles". Will never forget the end with DW cheering for Mikey and then saying he hoped Dale was ok.
 
cowgirl836 said:
that's quite the coincidence, me too. And I yelled at my Dad to turn it because "they're just going in circles". Will never forget the end with DW cheering for Mikey and then saying he hoped Dale was ok.
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Me either. I was really scared for Sterling Martin's life following that race. Imagine if we had Twitter and Facebook back then and he had a page?
 
Bret44 said:
Me either. I was really scared for Sterling Martin's life following that race. Imagine if we had Twitter and Facebook back then and he had a page?
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I knew so little about NASCAR at that point, that I didn't realize at the time that people blamed him. But I remember Dale Jr. saying something about it at some point that people needed to stop it.
 
Bret44 said:
Tied for number of cup wins and ran less years. I think Dale had better compition than Petty did as well. I loved me some old school STP #43, but that Black #3 was the most feared car in NASCAR history.
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Never liked #3 till #8 started racing then you could see fatherly pride, but Brett has it very correct.
 
CycloneRulzzz said:
Thing I remember is the crash didn't look as bad as some crashes you see normally see.
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Especially compared to the wreck that happened with less than 30 to go in that same race, where a car went airborne.

I'll never understand how Tony Stewart walked away from that wreck.

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