- Tried 19 times before finally winning the Daytona 500
- Filmed his role in BASEketball (1998) just days after winning his first (and only) Daytona 500.
- First Win: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee, 1979 Last Win: Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, Alabama, 2000
- In his final win on 15 October 2000 at Talladega Superspeedway, Earnhardt was in 18th place with five laps remaining. "Dale's Big Rally" to win was ranked #13 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Most Awesome Sports Moments (of the last 15 years)". [17 July 2005 issue]
- Was posthumously awarded the "Most Popular Driver" Award in 2001. Driver Bill Elliott "retired" himself so Earnhardt could win it.
- Has a memorial statue erected in his memory at the Daytona USA museum.
- Grandfather of Jeffrey Earnhardt.
- Won seven NASCAR Winston Cup Championships and 76 races, including the 1998 Daytona 500. Drove the #3 GM Goodwrench Service Plus Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
- Is tied with NASCAR legend Richard Petty, with seven Nascar Championships.
- One of the most popular figures in NASCAR racing.
- Won 76 career Winston Cup races from 1979 thru 2000.
- Owned the cars driven by Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt Jr., which finished 1st and 2nd, respectively, in the race in which he died.
- Earnhardt was the #1 most searched term on Lycos.com the week of February 18-24, 2001 - the first man (and only the second person) ever to top the list since its inception.
- Hated the restrictor plates added onto the motors of the stock cars to slow them down when they raced in Daytona and Talladega.
- Inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2006.
- Professional stock-car racer.
- Son Dale Earnhardt Jr. also drives in the NASCAR Winston Cup [now Nextel Cup] Series.
- He has 4 children: Kerry Earnhardt (who is a Busch series driver), Kelley Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt Jr. (who is a Winston Cup Driver) and Taylor Nicole Earnhardt.
- During the caution (yellow flag) laps, used to bump NASCAR Pace Car Driver Elmo Langley, just for fun.
- Father-in-law of NASCAR Nextel Cup Crew Chief Jimmy Elledge, who is currently working with Ganassi Racing's Target Car and Casey Mears.
- Although he was sometimes called "Mr. Chevrolet", many of his fans don't know (or talk about) that he actually drove a Ford Thunderbird for famed car owner Bud Moore during the 1982 and 1983 seasons.
- Dale was close friends with fellow NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace.
- Has 8 grandchildren.
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