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  • Dale Earnhardt: A NASCAR Champion

    On this date in 2001, seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in a final-lap crash during the Daytona 500. Here are some things you may not have known about Earnhardt and that fateful day. Dale Earnhardt was born in 1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He was the third of four children of…