Race Car Driver Dale Earnhardt

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Paragraph 1. Race car driver Dale Earnhardt won a record-tying seven NASCAR championships. He died after crashing during the final lap of the Daytona 500 in 2001. 1

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Dale Earnhardt born on April 29, 1951. He was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Brenda Lorraine Gee are his parents. Dale died on February 18, 2001. The location he died in was Daytona Beach Florida. How he died is when he was racing on his last lap of Daytona 500 he lost control of his car and hit the wall then hit another car behind him. Then he was dead at the seen with blunt force trauma to the head and a car pile up. The crew and family kept telling him to neck protection and a closed helmet. Dale Earnhardt is interred in a memorial

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