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Ten Years After: In His Own Words, Dale Earnhardt Reflects on His Life and Career

It was the end of the 1995 Winston Cup season, and Jeff Gordon -- "Wonder Boy" -- was the new NASCAR champion, set to be formally crowned at the annual banquet at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. High up in his lavish suite on the 36th floor, a day before the banquet, the runner-up, Dale Earnhardt, sat down...

Ten Years After: Inside Daytona Hospital, Tony Stewart Was a Witness to Grief

More often than you'd guess, Tony Stewart calls up the YouTube video of his wild, death-defying crash in the closing laps of the 2001 Daytona 500. But not for reasons you might think. In the short video clip, he watches his orange No. 20 get hit from behind on the massive Daytona International Speedway backstretch,...

Ten Years After: Ken Schrader Recalls a Moment He'll Never Forget

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years ago on Feb. 18, we lost Dale Earnhardt. NASCAR President Mike Helton used those very words that day – "we lost Dale Earnhardt" – in making the announcement that shocked and saddened people like no other death in American motorsports. It was a national tragedy – Earnhardt's photo...