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Dale Earnhardt got his name "The Intimidator" because of his driving skills on the race track. Ralph Dale Earnhardt was born on April 29th, 1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Young Earnhardt grew up in a race car family and he began racing at local tracks at the age of 15. Dale did not care for school so he dropped out of high school his freshman year. Dale loved racing cars and made his first appearance on a professional race track on May 1975. Driving his personally built car he finished 22 in the World 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
In 1979 Dale Earnhardt signed with a racing car sponsor from California and got his first Winston Cup contract to drive in the National Association for Stock Car Racing (NASCAR). His first NASCAR win that year was in the Southwestern 500 at Bristol, Tennessee. Dale's first season on the track earned him over $200,000, the first rookie to ever earn that amount of cash and he was named the Rookie of the Year by NASCAR. The following year Dale Earnhardt won the Winston Cup Champion to become the only driver in NASCAR history to win both Rookie of the Year and the Winston Cup Championship in back to back seasons.
Dale Earnhardt's career spanned 20 years. His skills and competitive instinct gave him the hard driving style and the edge to become a champion in this highly dangerous sport. In his career racing in the NASCAR circuit, Dale won 76 races and 7 Winston Cup races. From the mid1980's through the 1990's Dale was one of the most popular athletes in America. His final triumph of his career was to win the Daytona 500 in 1998 in Daytona, Florida. This amazing man was loved by his fans that knew him as #3 "The Intimidator", "The Man in Black" and "Iron Head", but no matter what you call this man he will always be known as one of the greatest race car driver in NASCAR history. On February 18th Dale was killed in the 2001 Daytona 500 in the final lap of the race.
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