AP NASCAR at 75 voting panel: Edsel Ford, long-time Ford executive; Tony Gibson, retired NASCAR crew chief; Jeff Gordon, four-time NASCAR champion; Denny Hamlin, three-time Daytona 500 champion; Rick ...

Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s Deer Head Shop at DEI has remained untouched 24 years on from his tragic death, preserved like a NASCAR ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car star of his era, was killed in a crash on the last turn of the last lap of Sunday’s Daytona 500 as he tried to protect Michael ...

Time has helped, but not a lot. Living in the moment, as Michael Waltrip says, seems to help more than anything else. It's what Waltrip didn't want to do in the hours after the 2001 Daytona 500, where ...

The 2001 NASCAR Cup season was its 53rd and the 30th of the modern-era Cup Series. Jeff Gordon was series champion for the fourth time in seven years. The season was marred by a two-car collision at ...

On Feb. 18, 2001, 15 years ago today, Dale Earnhardt died in a crash during the final lap of the Daytona 500. He was 49. To say that his death came as a shock would be an understatement. Earnhardt, as ...

The 2001 Daytona 500 remains the bleakest day in NASCAR history. The death of Dale Earnhardt from a crash on the last lap of the race robbed a family of its patriarch and the industry of the greatest ...

NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt of Mooresville, N.C., gestures to the crowd from after winning the Brickyard 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1995. To mark NASCAR’s 75th season, The Associated Press ...

The 2001 Daytona 500 remains the bleakest day in NASCAR history. The death of Dale Earnhardt from a crash on the last lap of the race robbed a family of its patriarch and the industry of the greatest ...