I agree with MortifiedPenguin275 this crash was WAY worse thin his 01 Daytona crash he should have died in this one(not trying to be a dick)but this was WAY worse.........and NMO the best guys we have in a post Dale Sr nascar is Kyle Bush and Tony stewart(yes Tony is an asshole and that's why I don't like him but that guy can drive)and as for Kyle.....I like him I like his driving and his passion to(would have loved to see Dale Sr and Kyle race together)
Your calling Tony the ass hole? LMFAO!!!! At the Dream 100 this year Tony signed countless autographs, while alot of drivers were getting in the "zone" for the race Tony was out signing autographs. Kyle Busch on the other hand..... Every time I have seen him it's like he sticks his nose up whenever someone asks him for an autograph.
yes I'm calling him an asshole Ive ben watching him seance his Rockie back before he won his presses brickyard 400 he would throw a fit because he didn't win like the 2002 brickyard he crashed and then the official went over to help him and Tony is all jerking around and was like pushing the guy(and I believe at that same race he push a reporter he's a spoiled brat(well you could say that about alot of those guys really)but Tony is a fucking dick and that's why I don't like him
I agree with you slay and kyle busch is the new Earnhardt. He is so much more talented than the others the way he has nerve and drives the car in much deeper than anyone else. Look at his record of top 2's in all divisions amazing. When the car are equal its no contest. Your right about tony as well. Great driver but he was a dick. He had a bad case of "little man's disease". He stil does but he is trying to clean up his act to attract sponsors for his future teams.
amen.......FINELLY someone who See's how it is man you are right I like Kyle9not enough to buy his murch or anything)but I like him that kid can fucking drive
I always thought this was Earnhardt's worst wreck ever even more than the one at pocono years earlier. This lick was much harder than the one that killed him. Why did he survive? simple. THE SEAT BELT HELD. True he was busted up but the seat belt held. This thing that killed him at daytona was the seat belt let go and his chest hit the stern wheel. That would kill you in a passenger car at 30mph if your seat belt broke and you hit the stern wheel with your chest and chin. sabatoge maybe?
His chest didn't hit anything and it was proved the seatbelt breaking wasn't the cause of his death. He died BECAUSE the seatbelt held just long enough after he hit, and his head shot forward(like when you get whiplash) and his brainstem sepperated from his brain aka basial skull fracture.
4Tracer i saw the incar pictures on the net and the damm stern wheel was bent from the impact of his chest. Also their were pics of the broken seat belt so stuff it about chit you know nothing about. The inside rumors were that it was sobotage but no way nascar could let it be known that dale passed that way. The gay france/hendrick/born rich drivers/fixed racing politics has ruined racing. Rick hendrix leukemia dissapeared after his presidential pardon for bribing honda officials u idiot.
I'm the idiot? LMFAO..... They had to cut the damn belts to get him out of the car!!! Trust me, I know exactly what happened, I have read the autopsy reports a couple of times.
Also the autopsy pictures clearly show a huge hole/gash in his chin area. You dont get that from a basal skull fracture. He got it from massive impact with the stern wheel. I want to state for the record Earnhardt was the greatest of his generation and in the top 3 of all time maybe the best ever. I didnt want to get graphic but i think the racing community was done a misjustice for the cover up.
Yes, his chin had struck the steering wheel. But that is what causes a basial skull fracture fyi.
After researching a bit more, I have found out that there was a part in the seatbelt that did in fact break, but was not the cause of the death because it was the lap belt, not the shoulder harness. The Earnhardt case was far from covered up, it was just that the media eventually got tired of a regular southern man(not the driver but the man) getting the attention he deserved.
Notice 3:10 when Earnhardt is flipping and something, possibly a tire comes off and goes directly under the #5 of Terry Labonte's car and stays hooked until the car came to a hault. Never did notice that until looking at it in slow motion.. Poor Terry made it threw the damn thing and the only thing he couldn't avoid was debris lol.
As far as attitude, Dale Earnhardt was as tough as they came. Back when he drove the #2 he flipped, broke his leg, walked away and raced the next week. Then this. It's a shame he died. No driver will ever have the mix of talent, sheer force of will and cool confidence in a stock car that Dale had. Especially that confidence. He knew he was the best and he was.
Without any help on the outside, you can sometimes get a sidedraft and hang on by cutting close to the inside line. However there is a very high chance of contact as shown in this instance.
The sad part of this crash was that that particular #4 Morgan McClure Chevy was his best super speedway car, that thing was a beast... but One-Eye Irvan destroyed that car and many others in this wreck.
He did...for seven laps at Indianapolis where he had used 2 of his 5 test sessions for that year. He came back a week after that at watkins glen and won the pole and led before being over taken in the latter part of the race. So your got dang right that there will NEVER be another race car driver in nascar quite like Dale Earnhardt.
the main thing about the 2001 crash is dale hit the wall HEAD ON, complete right angle to the wall, square head on, most of his speed here continued down the track and not into the wall. DEF looks alot worse though.
that could have very well been his last; I thought for sure that crash would kill him. obviously, I was wrong. Too bad he didn't make it in the '01 Daytona R.I.P Dale.
No well if It got under his car he couldnt have gone. Although i think i know what you mean because it lifted his front tires up and couldnt turn. then it just kinda slipped out his front bumper
i feel like this is eerily( if thats how you spell it) similar to neil bonnet. bad accident in talladega, and then they got killed in daytona( or was it talladega for bonnet?) even though bonnets was the next year after he went into the catchfence and this was 5 before dales got killed, theres something that reminds me of bonnet
Not even close. The car was still moving pretty fast after it bounced off the wall. Heck, Marlin probably took a harder hit in the wall! The scarier parts was certainly the secondary hits he took (something I have not seen since). There have been several crashes similar to this since (Bill Elliott in 1998, Scott Riggs in 2005 come to mind).
Both this wreck and Bill Elliott wreck in 98 happened because somebody got on the apron and lost control. I remember Ward Burton was the culprit in that wreck
i wished that he walked away from the 2001 DAYTONA 500 but as we all know, he didn't. it's still hard today. 8 years have gone by and you still get that big feeling that he's still here but he's not?! it hurts. it hurts real bad! another thing is that if it wasn't for treasa messing things up like she did maybe jr. would still be at DEI. but he's with a totally different team and he's doing a hell of alot better without treasa!
Ernie Irvan was in the 28 back then, and yes he was to blame. He made a career out of causing wrecks like that, after all his nickname was Swirvin Irvin.
marlin's the one who killed earnhardt, but if kenny schrader wasn't on the outside of dale, he would've hit the wall at a 45 degree angle instead of a 90 degree angle and would still be walking today
I really would like to know what the fuck Irvan was thinking. He had like close to half a car under Marlin and still decided that he wanted to "get in behind Marlin". Its no wonder why he was never a good driver.
how could dale walk away from this but he didnt in 2001 the wreck at daytona i was there and he died but he walked away from this ewas the wrose wreck of his life
I agree. Daytona was a simple nose tap (and I do mean "tap" as far as you can get it at 200 mph) and slide, and not even head on. This one almost destroyed the car after a hard head, spin, on and later a T-Bone.
If you look at how Earnhardt bounces off the wall on this, it looks exactly like the way that Michael McDowell bounced off the wall at Texas. Earnhardt just didn't proceed to barrel-roll down the track
You'd think that if any crash was gonna kill him, this would be it. Just brings back the mystical argument that there was some sort of situation with Dale's belt at Daytona.
Rusty Wallace made contact with Sterling Marlin, who made contact with Sterling, which got into Earnhardt, another car forced Earnhardt up right into the wall. Which is just a concidence since Ernie Irvan actually caused this wreck and Marlin was just a victim.
It had rained earlier in the day, and thus the race was running later than it already would have, and this wreck only exacerbated things. If I remember correctly, most of the race wasn't shown live because they were out of their time slot and CBS didn't continue the coverage, choosing instead to show it on tape. I could be wrong though, it's been a long time now.
I think that's an opinion shared by many. An Autumn Monday night race at 'Dega - up against MNF - would be the bomb, and I'm sure many would agree. I know it's gonna happen eventually, as more and more night racing is added to the schedule.
the tire under labonte's car was stuck, and he would've made it thru the wreck too. but when the tire rolled under the car, something broke and caused him to crah in the inside of turn 1.
i remember how this race was rain delayed so long that ABC decided not to show it till Monday (in jacksonville FL). found out about the earnhardt wreck by watching RPM2night.
Earnhardt also gets hit in pretty much the same spot that pressely hits him at by Derrick Cope a few seconds earlier. Like I said you can see a HUGE dent on the left side of the roof where Earnhardt sat so he was fortunate to survive this... If I remember correctly Earnhardt sustain some broken ribs, fractured clavical, i think he broke his wrist but i dont know off hand exactly every injury he sustaind but to get out and waive to the crowd after that... WOW!
Broke his sternum and collarbone. He had a bunch of injuries after this crash. But Dale Earnhardt "One Tough Customer" is still true, regardless if he passed or not. He was the original "Grit your teeth and buckle down" racer. And he went out the next week and got the pole at Watkins Glen! Damn straight.
Dale Earnhardt almost died in this wreck. when hes sliding on his side, he gets slammed into by Robert Pressely in the roof and since he was sliding on the driver side, that majority of the impact went into where Earnhardt is sitting on the driver side portion of the roof first and because Earnhardt sat so low in his seat he avoided alot of the force and impact from Pressely who was at doin about 185 mph you can see when the car comes to rest that the whole left side of the roof is caved in
He might have been a redneck but that redneck was smarter then you. I don't see getting rich after being born poor. He's one of the smartest and greatest man ever to walk this earth only 2ed to Jesus. Plus he did'nt loosen his seat belt nore was it was a seat belt failer. He was'nt wearing the HANS neck system, it had nothing to do with the seat belt. It was just time for him to go God thought it was time and he had a great life. A lot better then yours silverstannggt2007.
if you dont agree that dale sr took off his belts early like im sure he did for 20+ years of racing then your an idiot. nascar has safety regulations that have to be followed, his seat belts couldnt have been "faulty" you jackasss
You are the idiot. The seat belt was in fact not working properly. How stupid do you think Earnhardt was? Only people like you wouldn't wear a seatbelt going 190 miles per hour.
he was by no means a candy ass, he was one of the toughest racers of all time, i am a gordon fan (go ahead, make your stupid comments, but he is one of the best of all time) but dale sr was a great driver and it wasnt the crash that killed him, it was the fact that he took off his seat belts early to get to victory lane to see his teamate/son, if you dont believe that than you are an idiot
Im not gonna make a stupid comment, Gordon is one of the best of all time, I just dont like him but thats another topic....but about him taking off his seatbelt?????, his seat belt tore, it would be almost impossible to tear if it wasnt pulled tot by his body
ahah you have no proof of that how can you call us idiots... lol iv read they official reviews and seen the pictures from inside the car after they crash, they seatbelt was faulty, i seen about 5 pictures of a torn seat belt with alot of blood on it, and i read the list of injury's he had.. 1 was internal decapitation .. i would have hate to been ken Shrader that day and have to see that..
DW has actually recently spoken about what Kenny saw that day (based off what kenny told him). I can not even begin to think or really ever want to think what that was like for him.
Not sure if your replying to me or not but since it told me you did... It was an interview for ESPN Ultimate NASCAR. I can't remember which one it was but you can try to look for that.
you are about the only perspn on Youtube that actually KNOWS the truth of how he died. I know a first respnder that was on the scene of the crash. His belts were simply laying there, open, unbuckled. He was torn up real bad down on the floor (I'll spare the gory details). HE traditionally un-did his belts during red flags (which this race had).. he never buckled it back up.
I also knew about the seatbelts... sort of, lol. I thought he didn't mount them right since that's what I heard. At any rate I've posted in several videos that his lap belt broke but no one seems to believe it. The wreck was not among the hardest hits ever so you had to know something didn't happen the way it should.
Finally somone knows that the lap-belt did break. That was still a hard impact but the broken lap-belt caused the fatal injuries and not because he didnt wear a HANS device, it wouldnt of saved him. And about this crash is it just me or would he had won his 8th title in either 96' or even 97?.
Well I'm not actually saying for sure whether the lap belt broke from not wearing it right, or if he loosened the belts, but there was a clear picture of a broken belt.
are you stupid? You need to take a look at the report that they did and see the bloody broken lap belts. Why the hell would he not be finished the race yet and take his belts off? People like you are why NASCAR fans get a bad rap.
Don't forget the wreck Irvan caused at Darlington in 1990 that effectively ended Neil Bonnett's career. For those of you who don't know, about half-way through the race Irvan was 10 laps down and racing leader Ken Schrader on a restart. Irvan lost it in the Infamous Turn 4 (now turn 2) and took out nearly half the field.
naww marlin didn't flip over...earnhardt definaltey wasent a bitch i bet you people who say he is prolly spend all your time eating and cant even fit inside of a racecar
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I was at this race. It was great to see Big E get exactly what he'd been giving out for years!! I remember him crying like a little bitch when he had to get out of the car at the Brickyard the next week
after this wreck they added another bar to the rollcage running down the center of the windshield because dale's roof got pushed down when pressely hit him. they call it the earnhardt bar
I miss the way it was back when NASCAR was on espn. I like the fox commentators, but i dont like all the stuff at the top of the screen. They should go back to that square at the top left.
i cant believe that he didnt die in that crash but did in the daytona 500 this one looked WAYYY worse. NASCAR lost its BEST in my opinion.. it will never be the same
Earnhardt started the next race, the Brickyard 400, but Mike Skinner relieved him very early on. But Dale did go the distance a week later at Watkins Glen.
idont care what hubler jubler numbers and axies and angles and centrifical forces you throw, he had to be pulling more g's then at daytona, he was goin faster, in a worse part of track, strait into the wall
This is a harder impact but the angle did'nt force all the energy into the center of the car he hit the right front quarter panel. But man Sterling Marlin AGAIN! He almost killed hime twice. But man I don't blame him for his death, Earnhardt got lose at daytona and sterling didn't have .00100 seconds reaction time (thought nobody does) man still can't belive he is dead...
The injuries were a broken collar bone, broken shoulder blade, fractured sternum and possibly a bruised heart. He actually started the race the following week, but was replaced by future teammate Mike Skinner.
so demondogg55 how did you end up with his autopsy pics anyway? They were sealed a long time ago and kept locked away from the public.
jon24gies 2 years ago
pretty heavy accident here.... can't believe he survived this horror crash and died at daytona 01 from maybe half the impact
hitman2010 2 years ago
this wreck was one of the reasons they called him 'swervin ervin'.
RIP DALE
427BELAIR 2 years ago
Kinda strange that Sterlin was part of this crash and also part of the crash that killed Big E.
LT1HILLINGHOE 2 years ago
I agree with MortifiedPenguin275 this crash was WAY worse thin his 01 Daytona crash he should have died in this one(not trying to be a dick)but this was WAY worse.........and NMO the best guys we have in a post Dale Sr nascar is Kyle Bush and Tony stewart(yes Tony is an asshole and that's why I don't like him but that guy can drive)and as for Kyle.....I like him I like his driving and his passion to(would have loved to see Dale Sr and Kyle race together)
slayerdearly 2 years ago
Your calling Tony the ass hole? LMFAO!!!! At the Dream 100 this year Tony signed countless autographs, while alot of drivers were getting in the "zone" for the race Tony was out signing autographs. Kyle Busch on the other hand..... Every time I have seen him it's like he sticks his nose up whenever someone asks him for an autograph.
4Tracer 2 years ago
yes I'm calling him an asshole Ive ben watching him seance his Rockie back before he won his presses brickyard 400 he would throw a fit because he didn't win like the 2002 brickyard he crashed and then the official went over to help him and Tony is all jerking around and was like pushing the guy(and I believe at that same race he push a reporter he's a spoiled brat(well you could say that about alot of those guys really)but Tony is a fucking dick and that's why I don't like him
slayerdearly 2 years ago
I agree with you slay and kyle busch is the new Earnhardt. He is so much more talented than the others the way he has nerve and drives the car in much deeper than anyone else. Look at his record of top 2's in all divisions amazing. When the car are equal its no contest. Your right about tony as well. Great driver but he was a dick. He had a bad case of "little man's disease". He stil does but he is trying to clean up his act to attract sponsors for his future teams.
demondogg55 2 years ago
amen.......FINELLY someone who See's how it is man you are right I like Kyle9not enough to buy his murch or anything)but I like him that kid can fucking drive
slayerdearly 2 years ago
I always thought this was Earnhardt's worst wreck ever even more than the one at pocono years earlier. This lick was much harder than the one that killed him. Why did he survive? simple. THE SEAT BELT HELD. True he was busted up but the seat belt held. This thing that killed him at daytona was the seat belt let go and his chest hit the stern wheel. That would kill you in a passenger car at 30mph if your seat belt broke and you hit the stern wheel with your chest and chin. sabatoge maybe?
demondogg55 2 years ago
His chest didn't hit anything and it was proved the seatbelt breaking wasn't the cause of his death. He died BECAUSE the seatbelt held just long enough after he hit, and his head shot forward(like when you get whiplash) and his brainstem sepperated from his brain aka basial skull fracture.
4Tracer 2 years ago
4Tracer i saw the incar pictures on the net and the damm stern wheel was bent from the impact of his chest. Also their were pics of the broken seat belt so stuff it about chit you know nothing about. The inside rumors were that it was sobotage but no way nascar could let it be known that dale passed that way. The gay france/hendrick/born rich drivers/fixed racing politics has ruined racing. Rick hendrix leukemia dissapeared after his presidential pardon for bribing honda officials u idiot.
demondogg55 2 years ago
I'm the idiot? LMFAO..... They had to cut the damn belts to get him out of the car!!! Trust me, I know exactly what happened, I have read the autopsy reports a couple of times.
4Tracer 2 years ago
Also the autopsy pictures clearly show a huge hole/gash in his chin area. You dont get that from a basal skull fracture. He got it from massive impact with the stern wheel. I want to state for the record Earnhardt was the greatest of his generation and in the top 3 of all time maybe the best ever. I didnt want to get graphic but i think the racing community was done a misjustice for the cover up.
demondogg55 2 years ago
Yes, his chin had struck the steering wheel. But that is what causes a basial skull fracture fyi.
After researching a bit more, I have found out that there was a part in the seatbelt that did in fact break, but was not the cause of the death because it was the lap belt, not the shoulder harness. The Earnhardt case was far from covered up, it was just that the media eventually got tired of a regular southern man(not the driver but the man) getting the attention he deserved.
4Tracer 2 years ago
That's fascinating considering that the autopsy reports have been sealed by a Volusia County judge.
EastCoastMarc 2 years ago
No they haven't, they seald the autopsy photos and the audio....
The autopsy was allowed to be released. They can't hold the report, because it is a public record.
4Tracer 2 years ago
I was there and I thought he was dead.
MrRRMan03 2 years ago
Notice 3:10 when Earnhardt is flipping and something, possibly a tire comes off and goes directly under the #5 of Terry Labonte's car and stays hooked until the car came to a hault. Never did notice that until looking at it in slow motion.. Poor Terry made it threw the damn thing and the only thing he couldn't avoid was debris lol.
kasey9fan 2 years ago
I don't want to sound rude, but he should have died from THIS.
MortifiedPenguin275 2 years ago
Earnhardt was one tough son of a bitch. I don't think that there is a single NASCAR fan who doesn't miss him.
bob999999999900000 2 years ago 6
As far as attitude, Dale Earnhardt was as tough as they came. Back when he drove the #2 he flipped, broke his leg, walked away and raced the next week. Then this. It's a shame he died. No driver will ever have the mix of talent, sheer force of will and cool confidence in a stock car that Dale had. Especially that confidence. He knew he was the best and he was.
Miket3hshinobi 2 years ago
What the hell was Ernie Irvin thinking?
Rayman3424 2 years ago
the same thing ward was thinking 2 years later--its eery how similar the crashes are
wawwwaaa 2 years ago
Without any help on the outside, you can sometimes get a sidedraft and hang on by cutting close to the inside line. However there is a very high chance of contact as shown in this instance.
raichiotto 2 years ago 2
its weird that dale survived this but not the 2001 crash?
tartass342 2 years ago 5
ino right
jeffg24LT21 2 years ago
The sad part of this crash was that that particular #4 Morgan McClure Chevy was his best super speedway car, that thing was a beast... but One-Eye Irvan destroyed that car and many others in this wreck.
MCCDaners 2 years ago
Remember who drove the 4 car from 1990 to mid-'93? Swervin Irvan... Actually they won a bunch of superspeedway races back then...
BSNFabricating 2 years ago
it's amazing how he survived this, but then died in the 500 in an accident that looked much less severe than this one.
Gameaddict619 2 years ago
in 2001, he wasnt wearing the proper safety devices. He chose not to.
Mustangman675 2 years ago 3
Dale Raced the next week, even with a broken sternum. He was the best ever. Never will there be another race car driver like Dale.
KeithDFL 2 years ago 2
He did...for seven laps at Indianapolis where he had used 2 of his 5 test sessions for that year. He came back a week after that at watkins glen and won the pole and led before being over taken in the latter part of the race. So your got dang right that there will NEVER be another race car driver in nascar quite like Dale Earnhardt.
SeanMurphy108 2 years ago
but didint dale die how was he walking after the crash
futy123456 2 years ago
nope that was 2001 daytona 500 turns 3 and 4
speedwaysedan12 2 years ago
the main thing about the 2001 crash is dale hit the wall HEAD ON, complete right angle to the wall, square head on, most of his speed here continued down the track and not into the wall. DEF looks alot worse though.
lancerevoixmr06 2 years ago
that could have very well been his last; I thought for sure that crash would kill him. obviously, I was wrong. Too bad he didn't make it in the '01 Daytona R.I.P Dale.
DesktopAnimationLtd 2 years ago
It always gets to me..this looks worse than THE CRASH
mikemurph32 2 years ago
yeah but at Daytona he wasnt wearing the HANZ device.
tyko57 2 years ago
wasnt wearing it here either
lancerevoixmr06 2 years ago
did anyone notice that it looked like earnhardt picked up 20 mph when he turned sideways?
burtonfan2 2 years ago
anyone notice the Tire going in front of Labontes Car
Courtyard95 2 years ago
I think it actually got stuck under his car until he gets to turn 1
THEkingjaymz 2 years ago
No well if It got under his car he couldnt have gone. Although i think i know what you mean because it lifted his front tires up and couldnt turn. then it just kinda slipped out his front bumper
Courtyard95 2 years ago
i feel like this is eerily( if thats how you spell it) similar to neil bonnet. bad accident in talladega, and then they got killed in daytona( or was it talladega for bonnet?) even though bonnets was the next year after he went into the catchfence and this was 5 before dales got killed, theres something that reminds me of bonnet
joyrod11 2 years ago
that's very true it was as you say
roargary3 2 years ago
it was Daytona that Bonnett died at.
boutitbenza699 2 years ago
did anyone notice that ever bad wreck dale is in starling mmarlin is invloved
rockypc24 2 years ago
I never noticed this before, but watch Terry Labonte's car hit the debris!!!
winters19 2 years ago
Looks like a tire. But yeah sort of funny how it goes under the front of the car.
jeanjones9154 2 years ago
I had forgotten about that,too.He ended up on a wheel and tire.
twonine3 2 years ago
that was alot harder hit then daytona
sgriffin13 2 years ago
Not even close. The car was still moving pretty fast after it bounced off the wall. Heck, Marlin probably took a harder hit in the wall! The scarier parts was certainly the secondary hits he took (something I have not seen since). There have been several crashes similar to this since (Bill Elliott in 1998, Scott Riggs in 2005 come to mind).
itsalleternal 2 years ago
Both this wreck and Bill Elliott wreck in 98 happened because somebody got on the apron and lost control. I remember Ward Burton was the culprit in that wreck
THEkingjaymz 2 years ago
i wished that he walked away from the 2001 DAYTONA 500 but as we all know, he didn't. it's still hard today. 8 years have gone by and you still get that big feeling that he's still here but he's not?! it hurts. it hurts real bad! another thing is that if it wasn't for treasa messing things up like she did maybe jr. would still be at DEI. but he's with a totally different team and he's doing a hell of alot better without treasa!
newcig90 3 years ago
that onboard of marlin is brutal.
alouistheman 3 years ago
TO ALL !!! i dont know who was in the cars then but the 28 touched the 4 and it hit the 3 all the blame falls on the 28 story finished!!!!
GeoVpr 3 years ago
Ernie Irvan was in the 28 back then, and yes he was to blame. He made a career out of causing wrecks like that, after all his nickname was Swirvin Irvin.
hms4ever 3 years ago
Dale Earnhardt made a career out of causing wrecks as well!
JereMAN1994 2 years ago
if you look marlin came down on ervin. stop triying to kill the earnhardts
ntenselady5 3 years ago
marlin's the one who killed earnhardt, but if kenny schrader wasn't on the outside of dale, he would've hit the wall at a 45 degree angle instead of a 90 degree angle and would still be walking today
SSJ4human 2 years ago
c'mon! no one "killed' Earnhardt! it was a racing accident, and you cannot place the blame on anyone!
montyth 2 years ago 3
soooooooo youre blaming ken scharder for racing
dumbass
ntenselady5 2 years ago
no. i'm not blaming anyone
SSJ4human 2 years ago
I really would like to know what the fuck Irvan was thinking. He had like close to half a car under Marlin and still decided that he wanted to "get in behind Marlin". Its no wonder why he was never a good driver.
DaleReynolds24 3 years ago
marlin came down on irvan. stop trashing irvan for no reason he would have won the '94 championship over earnhardt had he not gotten hurt
k0ehl3r 3 years ago
Looked like his initial hit here was much worse than his fatal hit at Daytona.
stever411 3 years ago
believe me, it was
SSJ4human 2 years ago
Good ole' Swervin Irvan.
rlgodbold 3 years ago
if someone can find a video of any big one from the 90's without Mark Martin being involved in the wreck please let me know lol
i do feel sorry for him, he gets cought up in every one
DeathFromAbove1990 3 years ago 2
one of the big ones from the 94 spring race at dega, or the big one from either 93 race at dega
kingofrunescapepking 3 years ago
Irvan get booed big time the following week at Indy...I was there
WSBT960 3 years ago
that wasn't Irvan, it was Sterlin Marlin. Get ur facts straight ha
dolphinmagic24fan 3 years ago
Irvan was in the 28
spartanslq 3 years ago
Irvin hit Marlin into Dale
Banger82 3 years ago 2
on my next crash comp.!
thenascarmaniac 3 years ago
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Somebody PLEASE punch Buddy Baker in the mouth! His voice is so fucking annoying!
ChrisJ926 3 years ago
They would meet again 5 years later...
rfactorvids 3 years ago
Not true the hans device existed in formula racing, it just wasn't required yet
Potentscars 3 years ago
if Dale hadnt been so stubborn and worn the HANS device he would still be here
NyteFilms 3 years ago
There was only one driver (Jeff Burton) who was wearing the HANS device in the 2001 Dayona 500, so it wasn't just Dale.
freshgeek89 3 years ago
Also, the HANS device was relatively new, and wasn't mandated in NASCAR after the death of Blaise Alexander from ARCA.
88FanNASCAR 3 years ago
how could dale walk away from this but he didnt in 2001 the wreck at daytona i was there and he died but he walked away from this ewas the wrose wreck of his life
CASEYMEARS5 3 years ago
I agree. Daytona was a simple nose tap (and I do mean "tap" as far as you can get it at 200 mph) and slide, and not even head on. This one almost destroyed the car after a hard head, spin, on and later a T-Bone.
I guess luck has so much to do with it.
leobold1 3 years ago
no theres already to many night races as it is...we dont need anymore night races.
e521soediv 3 years ago
ken squier was a great commentator
gbpackerswr84 3 years ago 13
should bring him back, Jerry Punch stinks.
combatking08 3 years ago 6
vury true
facehater70 3 years ago
If you look at how Earnhardt bounces off the wall on this, it looks exactly like the way that Michael McDowell bounced off the wall at Texas. Earnhardt just didn't proceed to barrel-roll down the track
THEkingjaymz 3 years ago
You'd think that if any crash was gonna kill him, this would be it. Just brings back the mystical argument that there was some sort of situation with Dale's belt at Daytona.
phantomlord54 3 years ago
#3 will always be #1. tough man...miss ya dale...
witchweb20 3 years ago 5
how did daytona kill him? Head on into a wall at 190? wtf? rip big E
zozboby 3 years ago
Rusty Wallace made contact with Sterling Marlin, who made contact with Sterling, which got into Earnhardt, another car forced Earnhardt up right into the wall. Which is just a concidence since Ernie Irvan actually caused this wreck and Marlin was just a victim.
dalejrgamer 3 years ago
this is probably the most gruesome crash ive ever seen
sfplaysguitar 3 years ago
this wreck is the reason nascar added the 'earnhardt bar', center vertical bar in the middle of the windshield.
427BELAIR 3 years ago
Ernie Irvan is the record holder for most wrecks caused.
dollarcheeseburger 3 years ago
anwser: yes it did, the race did end due to darkness.
nascarandamdrag 4 years ago
This crash happened on lap 118 and the race ended on lap 129, did the race end because it got too dark?
tompow 4 years ago
It had rained earlier in the day, and thus the race was running later than it already would have, and this wreck only exacerbated things. If I remember correctly, most of the race wasn't shown live because they were out of their time slot and CBS didn't continue the coverage, choosing instead to show it on tape. I could be wrong though, it's been a long time now.
blueracer6 4 years ago
This is only my opinion, but Talladega needs to have lights.
tompow 4 years ago 6
I agree with you 100%.
Roo4CooKoo 4 years ago
I think that's an opinion shared by many. An Autumn Monday night race at 'Dega - up against MNF - would be the bomb, and I'm sure many would agree. I know it's gonna happen eventually, as more and more night racing is added to the schedule.
phantomlord54 3 years ago
There are some video games that have night racing at Talladega, which looks really cool, and is a good way to promote a track to add lights.
tompow 3 years ago
the tire under labonte's car was stuck, and he would've made it thru the wreck too. but when the tire rolled under the car, something broke and caused him to crah in the inside of turn 1.
ZORCandPALS544 4 years ago 2
Pause at 3:10.Terry Labontes car[the one near Dale Earnhart's rear end}hits a tire
ldk333 4 years ago
Ouch I remember watching this Dx. If not for this wreck he wouldv'e won the championship, and probably 1997 too.
n0vaca1n3 4 years ago
i remember how this race was rain delayed so long that ABC decided not to show it till Monday (in jacksonville FL). found out about the earnhardt wreck by watching RPM2night.
MillerRacer2 4 years ago
CBS actually. Never got to watch it in the CINCINNATI area.
racermac1988 4 years ago
That was the hardest hit that ive ever seen
shopman0062 4 years ago
same thing as bill eilott in the 1998 diehard 500
jmoney11 4 years ago 3
Also very similar to Scott Riggs's 2005 crash.
itsalleternal 3 years ago 3
Now thats the racing I remember.
seankolker 4 years ago 2
Earnhardt also gets hit in pretty much the same spot that pressely hits him at by Derrick Cope a few seconds earlier. Like I said you can see a HUGE dent on the left side of the roof where Earnhardt sat so he was fortunate to survive this... If I remember correctly Earnhardt sustain some broken ribs, fractured clavical, i think he broke his wrist but i dont know off hand exactly every injury he sustaind but to get out and waive to the crowd after that... WOW!
Zachary9989 4 years ago 2
Broke his sternum and collarbone. He had a bunch of injuries after this crash. But Dale Earnhardt "One Tough Customer" is still true, regardless if he passed or not. He was the original "Grit your teeth and buckle down" racer. And he went out the next week and got the pole at Watkins Glen! Damn straight.
KKFan9 4 years ago
Dale Earnhardt almost died in this wreck. when hes sliding on his side, he gets slammed into by Robert Pressely in the roof and since he was sliding on the driver side, that majority of the impact went into where Earnhardt is sitting on the driver side portion of the roof first and because Earnhardt sat so low in his seat he avoided alot of the force and impact from Pressely who was at doin about 185 mph you can see when the car comes to rest that the whole left side of the roof is caved in
Zachary9989 4 years ago
took his belts off early??? get a life idiots.
427BELAIR 4 years ago
He might have been a redneck but that redneck was smarter then you. I don't see getting rich after being born poor. He's one of the smartest and greatest man ever to walk this earth only 2ed to Jesus. Plus he did'nt loosen his seat belt nore was it was a seat belt failer. He was'nt wearing the HANS neck system, it had nothing to do with the seat belt. It was just time for him to go God thought it was time and he had a great life. A lot better then yours silverstannggt2007.
EarnhardtsYear08 4 years ago 3
if you dont agree that dale sr took off his belts early like im sure he did for 20+ years of racing then your an idiot. nascar has safety regulations that have to be followed, his seat belts couldnt have been "faulty" you jackasss
silverstanggt2007 4 years ago
You are the idiot. The seat belt was in fact not working properly. How stupid do you think Earnhardt was? Only people like you wouldn't wear a seatbelt going 190 miles per hour.
HeavyMetalAndCars80 4 years ago
rock on
leebaker4 4 years ago
NO. He died from a crash in the 2001 Daytona 500 From Basal Skull Fracture in turn 4.
Brando997 4 years ago 2
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dude he died from a heart attack not a crash!!!!!!!! man sad day
OLYPOG 4 years ago
are you a freakin moron? Obviously you dont need to be watching this because you have not a clue what's going on.
JLPrinzess 4 years ago 3
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sterling was trying to kill big E
timlinisabeast 4 years ago
Dont know what race your watching, Swirvin' Irvan caused that one
PYLrulz1984 4 years ago
when i look back on this comment i regret it
dale ans sterling were the best, i did not mean to be offencive
timlinisabeast 4 years ago
I don't know how he survived that. He hit the wall head on!
chicks123 4 years ago
yeah, but he didnt come to an almost complete stop, like in Daytona the roll-over disipated the impact
coilerbobby 4 years ago 2
It was just too much like 2001 at Daytona.
chadloflin20 4 years ago
he was by no means a candy ass, he was one of the toughest racers of all time, i am a gordon fan (go ahead, make your stupid comments, but he is one of the best of all time) but dale sr was a great driver and it wasnt the crash that killed him, it was the fact that he took off his seat belts early to get to victory lane to see his teamate/son, if you dont believe that than you are an idiot
silverstanggt2007 4 years ago
Im not gonna make a stupid comment, Gordon is one of the best of all time, I just dont like him but thats another topic....but about him taking off his seatbelt?????, his seat belt tore, it would be almost impossible to tear if it wasnt pulled tot by his body
3fan4eva 4 years ago
why the hell would he take off his seatbelt at fricken 190 mph?? he wouldnt make that stupid of a decision.
zmann2420 4 years ago
ahah you have no proof of that how can you call us idiots... lol iv read they official reviews and seen the pictures from inside the car after they crash, they seatbelt was faulty, i seen about 5 pictures of a torn seat belt with alot of blood on it, and i read the list of injury's he had.. 1 was internal decapitation .. i would have hate to been ken Shrader that day and have to see that..
WonSpecNificent 4 years ago
Your right, the pictures tell it all really.
DW has actually recently spoken about what Kenny saw that day (based off what kenny told him). I can not even begin to think or really ever want to think what that was like for him.
JLPrinzess 4 years ago 2
Whoa, where is that story? Id love to read that.
wolves16 4 years ago
Not sure if your replying to me or not but since it told me you did... It was an interview for ESPN Ultimate NASCAR. I can't remember which one it was but you can try to look for that.
JLPrinzess 4 years ago
you are about the only perspn on Youtube that actually KNOWS the truth of how he died. I know a first respnder that was on the scene of the crash. His belts were simply laying there, open, unbuckled. He was torn up real bad down on the floor (I'll spare the gory details). HE traditionally un-did his belts during red flags (which this race had).. he never buckled it back up.
ProfessorIgor 4 years ago
I also knew about the seatbelts... sort of, lol. I thought he didn't mount them right since that's what I heard. At any rate I've posted in several videos that his lap belt broke but no one seems to believe it. The wreck was not among the hardest hits ever so you had to know something didn't happen the way it should.
O5fan 4 years ago
Finally somone knows that the lap-belt did break. That was still a hard impact but the broken lap-belt caused the fatal injuries and not because he didnt wear a HANS device, it wouldnt of saved him. And about this crash is it just me or would he had won his 8th title in either 96' or even 97?.
3fan4eva 4 years ago
Well I'm not actually saying for sure whether the lap belt broke from not wearing it right, or if he loosened the belts, but there was a clear picture of a broken belt.
O5fan 4 years ago
well just from common sense the belts had to be pulled tot for them to snap. but yeah the pictures to clearly show a torn belts
3fan4eva 4 years ago
Dude, what the hell is tot?
O5fan 4 years ago
lol sorry I may not me spelling it right but it means pulled tightly or strecthed tightly
3fan4eva 4 years ago
lol it's taught.
O5fan 4 years ago
lol thanks....thats why Im still in school lol
3fan4eva 4 years ago
are you stupid? You need to take a look at the report that they did and see the bloody broken lap belts. Why the hell would he not be finished the race yet and take his belts off? People like you are why NASCAR fans get a bad rap.
JLPrinzess 4 years ago
Wild how he walks away from this but dies in a crash much more simpler looking than this at Daytona. It was obviously just his time.
MrKidneySton3d 4 years ago
The Same Year when Craven flipped over in turn 1. Wow:o
ToroRosso20 4 years ago
Another classic move by the one-eyed Irvan, kind of reminds me of the 1992 Daytona 500 when he took out almost half of the field racing for the lead.
moty78 4 years ago
Don't forget the wreck Irvan caused at Darlington in 1990 that effectively ended Neil Bonnett's career. For those of you who don't know, about half-way through the race Irvan was 10 laps down and racing leader Ken Schrader on a restart. Irvan lost it in the Infamous Turn 4 (now turn 2) and took out nearly half the field.
PregNut 4 years ago
naww marlin didn't flip over...earnhardt definaltey wasent a bitch i bet you people who say he is prolly spend all your time eating and cant even fit inside of a racecar
ruxer24 4 years ago
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I was at this race. It was great to see Big E get exactly what he'd been giving out for years!! I remember him crying like a little bitch when he had to get out of the car at the Brickyard the next week
Beavis2828 4 years ago
Try to race even just 1 lap with what Earnhardt had injury wise, then lets see who is crying like a little bitch.
PYLrulz1984 4 years ago 2
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Just as I couldn't do what Earhardt did for a living, He couldn'd do what I do for a living. My point is that he got what he had coming to him
Beavis2828 4 years ago
Lets see u break your collar-bone then two week later put a car on the pole @ Watkins Glen
3fan4eva 4 years ago
after this wreck they added another bar to the rollcage running down the center of the windshield because dale's roof got pushed down when pressely hit him. they call it the earnhardt bar
kainethebarbarian 4 years ago 2
Did Marlin also flip over? At 2:07 it looks like Marlin's car is upside down...
itsalleternal 4 years ago
No, he isn't. Look again.
word360 4 years ago
I miss the way it was back when NASCAR was on espn. I like the fox commentators, but i dont like all the stuff at the top of the screen. They should go back to that square at the top left.
wildguy1992 4 years ago
espn now does busch series races
taranchula97 4 years ago
Me too, plus they would replay it at 2 or 3am so I could catch what I missed.
Generation2Mako 4 years ago
But ESPN kinda does stuff the way Fox and NBC have been doing things, so its not how it was pre-2001. But I like Jerry Punch in the booth.
O5fan 4 years ago
i know the seat belt broke and i didnt mean anything by what i said.. i just meant that this one LOOKED a lot worse
fatal444blackout 4 years ago
i cant believe that he didnt die in that crash but did in the daytona 500 this one looked WAYYY worse. NASCAR lost its BEST in my opinion.. it will never be the same
fatal444blackout 4 years ago
I can't believe so many people say the same thing when there's the simple explanation that his seat belt broke at Daytona.
O5fan 4 years ago
that hit was a lot like the hit that killed him
rockerboy2001 4 years ago
who raced the 3 car the next week?
KnmrCards 4 years ago
Earnhardt started the next race, the Brickyard 400, but Mike Skinner relieved him very early on. But Dale did go the distance a week later at Watkins Glen.
SKracing 4 years ago
Didnt he also win the pole at Watkins Glen. Earnhardt was as tough as nails
3fan4eva 4 years ago
Yeah he broke the (then) track record with a broken collarbone. Unbelievable, I think its on youtube somewhere...search dale earnhardt watkins glen.
singingkicker 4 years ago
Look up at topow's post.
O5fan 4 years ago
Yeah that trioval can be rough.
O5fan 4 years ago
And that's also about the same area that Rusty Wallace had his flip in '93.
NAVGFan 4 years ago
idont care what hubler jubler numbers and axies and angles and centrifical forces you throw, he had to be pulling more g's then at daytona, he was goin faster, in a worse part of track, strait into the wall
vettedude418 4 years ago
His seat belt failed at Daytona, though.
O5fan 4 years ago 2
This is a harder impact but the angle did'nt force all the energy into the center of the car he hit the right front quarter panel. But man Sterling Marlin AGAIN! He almost killed hime twice. But man I don't blame him for his death, Earnhardt got lose at daytona and sterling didn't have .00100 seconds reaction time (thought nobody does) man still can't belive he is dead...
FallenAngels92 4 years ago
This wreck wasn't Marlin's fault, either! Irvan slid up into him, which made him slide into Earnardt.
O5fan 4 years ago 2
The injuries were a broken collar bone, broken shoulder blade, fractured sternum and possibly a bruised heart. He actually started the race the following week, but was replaced by future teammate Mike Skinner.
tompow 4 years ago 2
Thank god for the development of the SAFER barrier.
drglinski 4 years ago 2