With Dale Earnhardt Sr., There Are No Comparisons

"When I stopped, I looked at it and got in the ambulance and looked back over there and I said 'man, the wheels ain't knocked off that car yet,'" Earnhardt said. "I went back over there and looked at the wheels and I told the guy in the car to fire it up. "It fired up and I said, 'Get out. Unhook me, I've got to go." "We took off after 'em. You've got to get all the laps you can. That's what we're running for the championship for." These few sentences, are probably the most powerful words that any driver has ever spoken in the history of NASCAR. What transpired on this day back in February 1997, was a scene that none of Hollywood’s biggest and most popular movie producers could have ever recreated. This was not some occurrence that was pr...

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