I wish we could have seen, but in reality, Dale had started to fall off just a little bit. Dale was 49 when he passed, and the oldest race winner in NASCAR history was 52. Dale was without a doubt a unique human being, but nobody outruns Father Time forever.
@@zlinedavid true, although others have pointed out that in his final full season in 2000, he was runner up to Bobby Labonte and drove the most impressive race of his whole career at the Fall Talladega race where he climbed from 17th to the lead, taking his 76th and final win (as it turned out). He was also running up front all day in the 2001 Daytona 500 before his fatal accident. Short term, I think his pace was still there, but it was only a matter of time before he would reluctantly have retired (as Emplemon said in his video about Dale Earnhardt, "he wasn't racing for the fame or the fortune, he was racing to prove himself to his late father")
The 1993 season was the year I started watching Nascar. Unfortunately I didn't get satellite tv until 1998 so I was only able to watch a few races a year on regular tv. I had to rely on magazines and newspapers and highlights on the tv sports reports when they showed them.
4:04 After Daytona in 1993, Ned Jarrett actually went to Dale Earnhardt and apologized for losing his objectivity as a journalist in calling the finish. Dale looked at him for a second, clapped him on the shoulder, flashed that million-watt grin of his and said “Don’t. I’m a daddy too.” Definition of class for both.
Ernie Irvan won races with two different teams as he won with Morgan McClure his original team he started 1993 with and then in the #28 when he took over for Davey Allison winning Martinsville and then Charlotte in the fall. Geoff Bodine also won for the team he started 1993 with Bud Moore Racing at Sears Point around the time he purchased Kulwicki's operation and later drove the 7 for the remainder of the year.
That last remark saying "how many titles could Dale achieve if he continued until the year 2010," got me, especially what we have known since 2001
I wish we could have seen, but in reality, Dale had started to fall off just a little bit. Dale was 49 when he passed, and the oldest race winner in NASCAR history was 52. Dale was without a doubt a unique human being, but nobody outruns Father Time forever.
@@zlinedavid true, although others have pointed out that in his final full season in 2000, he was runner up to Bobby Labonte and drove the most impressive race of his whole career at the Fall Talladega race where he climbed from 17th to the lead, taking his 76th and final win (as it turned out). He was also running up front all day in the 2001 Daytona 500 before his fatal accident. Short term, I think his pace was still there, but it was only a matter of time before he would reluctantly have retired (as Emplemon said in his video about Dale Earnhardt, "he wasn't racing for the fame or the fortune, he was racing to prove himself to his late father")
The 1993 season was the year I started watching Nascar. Unfortunately I didn't get satellite tv until 1998 so I was only able to watch a few races a year on regular tv. I had to rely on magazines and newspapers and highlights on the tv sports reports when they showed them.
4:04 After Daytona in 1993, Ned Jarrett actually went to Dale Earnhardt and apologized for losing his objectivity as a journalist in calling the finish. Dale looked at him for a second, clapped him on the shoulder, flashed that million-watt grin of his and said “Don’t. I’m a daddy too.”
Definition of class for both.
Ernie Irvan won races with two different teams as he won with Morgan McClure his original team he started 1993 with and then in the #28 when he took over for Davey Allison winning Martinsville and then Charlotte in the fall. Geoff Bodine also won for the team he started 1993 with Bud Moore Racing at Sears Point around the time he purchased Kulwicki's operation and later drove the 7 for the remainder of the year.
Thanks Bowser I really enjoyed this one. 🙂👍🏁
Davey's final win was at Richmond.
I was at the Atlanta race when Shepherd won.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention defending champion Alan Kulwicki’s death for the food city 500
Great job Bowser.
Or Davey Allison’s for the diehard 500
I probably should have done that
This video is off it misses the count of a couple of Earnhardt’s wins, The Talladega win in July is win 59 not win 57
Here we go Again up too over Roll bars in Earnhart Spare us Ugh