Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

In Memory of Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
On the front stretch coming to 3 laps to go, Sterling Marlin made contact with Earnhardt's left rear fender. Earnhardt's car wiggled but Dale kept control and he remained in third position. Marlin was known for having a fast car throughout the race, and Earnhardt repeatedly blocked his attempts at passing during the last few laps. With less than two laps remaining, Darrell Waltrip commented that "Sterling has beat the front end off of that old Dodge (Marlin's car) trying to get around Dale (Earnhardt)".

Heading into Turn 3 on the last lap, Earnhardt was racing three wide with Marlin to his left and Schrader to his right. In the corner, Earnhardt's left rear fender made slight contact with Marlin's front bumper.


Dale Earnhardt's crash in Turn 4 during the 2001 Daytona 500Earnhardt's car slid off the track's steep banking, onto the flat apron, and then turned sharply up the track toward the outside retaining wall. As the #3 car came up the track it collided with the #36 Pontiac driven by Ken Schrader. Schrader's car hit Earnhardt's car just behind the passenger door, causing both cars to run nose-first into the wall. Earnhardt's #3 hit at a critical angle at nearly 150 miles per hour. The right-rear wheel assembly broke off the car on impact. The hood pins severed and the hood flapped open, slamming against the windshield as the car slid slowly down the track. To most observers, the crash looked minor, and certainly not as dramatic as his famous 1996 wreck at Talladega, when Earnhardt's car was pelted several times in the roof and windshield as it rolled across the track.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• NASCAR
• motor
• sport
• Ralph
• Dale
• Earnhardt
• Sr
• 2001
• Daytona
• 500
• Death
• Crash
• nascar

[axl6533]

r i p best racer ever

[goldiering5]

He is still my sports hero and will always be. RIP to the greatest nascar driver ever

[youyou65ful]

RIP

[Acelynx3]

@exile4646

its not marlins fault, theres all those men in contention to win the great american race! all hungry for the same thing! Earnhardt wouldnt want marlin to be blamed for a competitive accident.

[vampiredoctar]

@exile4646 That is the stupidist comment ever. Say you even are smart enough to find him, you would be in jail for SUCH a long time of you were to touch him

[vampiredoctar]

He is not the best racer ever, Richard Petty is. Dale Senior won 80 something races, Richard Petty won like 200. R . I. P dale... :(

[BobbyRossRacing93]

@exile4646 My dad was a dale fan all the way. He wanted to do the same.

[SuperRobbie1976]

nascar has not AND will never be the same RIP Dale.

[snipermonkey87]

RIP greaatest racer ever

[Climax300488]

what is the name of this song?

[jacho80]

@Tsims1996

What the hell is wrong with me ???

I think you are the sick bastard, why are you attacking me ??

[Tsims1996]

@jacho80 what the hell is wrong with you?, you sick bastard?the man lost his life.