Any one else just watch "The Day" on speed? Still chokes me up 10 years later. NASCAR has never been the same. MY 2 kids watched it with me, both were enthralled even though it happened before they were born. 3 forever!
Ill never forget when and where I was....I have been to DEI and Dale jrs home.... its still an erie feeling I get....weird....Yeah.....Dale Sr. could never be replaced.
The racing hasn't been the same since. The bud shoot out last night was boring and can't imagine 500 miles next week. Maybe give Kyle Busch no. 3, that will shake everything up.
Watch part of it, Kinda makes u get a lump in the throat. I was returning home form hospital when I heard, Visiting my Nephew, Who had just broken his neck, so I will alway remember that day.
watched the race with 2 of my best friends put a sheet of plywood on the road that said #3 forever. sheet is nailed to my shop door and still says#3 on it.
It truly was a sad day racing..I watched the show with my family..we all got a little choked up...brought back memorys of Greg Moores crash..another very sad day.....at least the racing world is now a better place because of these guys.
I remember Gregg's crash as well. Not a huge fan of openwheel racing, but More was one heck of a driver. Does his father still have the dealership in Maple Ridge? When Dale crashed, I took 3 days off of work.
I thought it was well done.. Hard not to choke up... I looked up photos of race car interior.. They didn't say it , but he was dead in the car... His loss may have saved a lot of lives since.....
Nascar folks seem to have a lot of family values...
not a nascar fan at all, imop totally over rated. they treated it like coca cola died. but thats just "my" opinion.....
Nascar is a very entertaining sport, and brings tons of money to the economy, creates many job When a hockey game is sold out here it sells 19,000 tickets A Nascar event draws 150-200,000 every week! It was exciting last night, to see Bud Shoot out at newly paved Daytona track.. A single car was running 182-184 mph and drafting bumped them up to 204-206 mph!! Check it out its cool with in car cameras, and small block running 9700rpm down the back stretch.......
not a nascar fan at all, imop totally over rated. they treated it like coca cola died. but thats just "my" opinion.....
Nascar is a very entertaining sport, and brings tons of money to the economy, creates many job When a hockey game is sold out here it sells 19,000 tickets A Nascar event draws 150-200,000 every week! It was exciting last night, to see Bud Shoot out at newly paved Daytona track.. A single car was running 182-184 mph and drafting bumped them up to 204-206 mph!! Check it out its cool with in car cameras, and small block running 9700rpm down the back stretch.......
for each his own i guess, but i,m not a hockey fan either. for me, its quite dull to run around a track in the same direction for 50 laps or more. twice as dull to watch someone else do it. no effence ment, but i just dont get it, even as a hotrodder.
not a nascar fan at all, imop totally over rated. they treated it like coca cola died. but thats just "my" opinion...
for me, its quite dull to run around a track in the same direction for 50 laps or more. twice as dull to watch someone else do it. no effence ment, but i just dont get it, even as a hotrodder.
Have you ever raced in a pack of car's on a paved oval? If you have, I don't know how you could be bored being bumped around at speed, sawing on the wheel to keep it on the track, You must have nerves of steel, as when I was racing, I never thought it was dull even for a minute.
i never ran a paved oval, the only pavement i ever raced was 1/4 mile. all in the southern ont scene in the late 80,s- early 90,s. but to this day, it doesnt interest me to watch it. i guess i,m just not cut out to be a fan of anything. i,ve tried, but just dont get it. again, just my opinion though.
-- Edited by tin indian on Sunday 13th of February 2011 08:04:33 PM
Looks like we have fallen off topic again. Any ways I watched it and I thought it was very well done. He was one hell of a driver and even a better man.
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Well I'll tell ya-there is nothing like being in the pits with the team that you are with.The adrenaline is something else.I was on 2 teams of two different racing organizations and it is really thrilling listening to those small blocks revving and watching the rotors turning red hot at night.A real gear head sport.And the comradery is something to be said for.I too just finished watching "The Day" and I truely felt the pain and the loss of a great man and one of if not the best driver there was in the great sport that it is.
R.I.P Dale, 3 "The Intimitator"
-- Edited by rebelrouser on Monday 14th of February 2011 09:08:01 PM
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Me and good friend Mario M. were watching on that faithful day. Sadly we were both shaken and seeing the ambulance at a snail's pace leave the track, we knew something was grave. Dale Earnhart was Mario's favorite driver. His home had a Dale Earnhart "shrine" complete with jackets, diecast cars and framed pictures. Mario and I had gone to Las Vegas in 1997 to the Richard Petty Driving Experience together. We both "rented" rides and actually drove our own Richard Petty cars that day. Mario was a second faster that me! In 2004 Mario turned 40. In March of that year, on a Friday,he played hooky from work and got in 18 holes of golf that afternoon. After the game, he and his golfing partner went to the Boston Pizza at Westbrook Mall for supper. Mario was seated by a hostess. He then fell out of his chair.....dead. A Doctor was having supper there at the time and basically said he could do nothing. Mario was gone. And like his Hero, left us way too early. We have a golf tournament in Mario's honor each June. Rest in Peace Mario and Dale E! I'm sure you are both up there W.F.O.(*)
(*=Wide.F'n.Open.)
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All I'm gonna say on the matter is ... if you ever needed the definition of 'icon' .... Dale Sr. is it. Racing in all it's forms has lost many drivers .... but none swept the field like the loss of Dale Sr.
I REMEMBER WATCHING DALES LAST RACE. I WAS SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THE ACCIDENT TOOK HIS LIFE. IT DIDN'T LOOK TOO BAD, I HAVE SEEN MUCH MORE DRAMATIC WRECKS AND THE DRIVERS WALK AWAY. VERY SAD.
I REMEMBER WATCHING DALES LAST RACE. I WAS SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THE ACCIDENT TOOK HIS LIFE. IT DIDN'T LOOK TOO BAD, I HAVE SEEN MUCH MORE DRAMATIC WRECKS AND THE DRIVERS WALK AWAY. VERY SAD.
I feel exactly the same 427! I can't believe it's been 10 years. I watched the race with a buddy at a local Lion's club Nascar party that they put on for the Daytona 500. We all watched the wreck and figured "He's been in worse wrecks than that, he'll be ok, they've taken him to the hospital for observation". Then to get home and see on CNN that he was gone. I watched "The Day" as well and it put a lump in my throat a few times. My rec-room is still decorated in Earnhardt #3 pictures and memorabilia. The only good thing to happen lately in Nascar to me was when Dale Jr. ran the #3 Wrangler car in the one Nation Wide race last year and won it!
