By Joseph Foster
BumpsNotes on XERB1090

The death of Dale Earnhardt resulting from a crash on the final lap of the race deprived a family of its patriarch and the sport of the most eminent stock car luminary of his time (Earnhardt Series). Earnhardt’s legacy might reside in how his death reshaped the sport.

At the time of Dale’s death NASCAR was dealing with the aftermath of three driver fatalities in 2000—Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin Jr. and Tony Roper, ahead of the Daytona 500. The 2001 Daytona 500 marked the inaugural year of NASCAR’s six-year, $2.8 billion television agreement with Fox and NBC.

BumpsNotes attempts to present a respectful view of the event without having to lean on the wreck footage of which most of you have viewed many times.

The story is compiled in five reasonably short videos and we hope you enjoy the presentation and editing taken from the NASCAR televised video article “The Day”