February 18, 2001. Every NASCAR fan remembers where they were when they first got the news: Dale Earnhardt had died in the final turn of the final lap at Daytona.
Even today, a full decade after he died, those words are painful to process. Whether you loved Earnhardt or loathed him — and there were plenty of fans in both camps — he was a larger than life character: Bold, cocky, talented, fiercely loyal to those close to him and indestructible. Or so we believed.
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