On his 20th attempt, Dale Earnhardt won this grueling auto race February 15, 1998
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Jeff Gordon ready to keep subbing for Dale Earnhardt Jr. - USA Today  Jul 30, 2016 ... Jeff Gordon has one scheduled race left as a replacement for Dale Earnhardt Jr. ... Earnhardt ceded his car after submitting to examinations because of ... third at Indianapolis  and the organization winless in 15 races. ... seem a grueling choice considering the physical nature of the track. ..... 20 hours ago.
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On Feb. 15, 2008 this millionaire adventurer was ruled legally dead ...  Jul 7, 2016 ... On his 20th attempt, Dale Earnhardt won this grueling auto race February 15, 1998 # Quiz # Question. 0:29. FirstAmVideo. No views...
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1998 Daytona 500 - Wikipedia  The 1998 Daytona 500, the 40th running of the event, was held on February 15 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida as the first race of the 1998 NASCAR Winston Cup season. It was memorable in that it marked Dale Earnhardt's only Daytona 500 victory after 19 previous attempts ... Also, his long-awaited Daytona 500 win snapped a 59-race winless streak...
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ESPN.com: February Classic Moments  "Classic Moments," the biggest sports news event of the day in the 20th ... They will fight four more times, and Robinson will win each bout. ... Early in the third period, Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues scores his 50th goal on a breakaway. Hull .... Feb. 15. Auto racing 1998: Dale Earnhardt is first -- at last. The winner of seven...
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Dale Earnhardt wins first Daytona 500 - Feb 15, 1998 - HISTORY.com  His father was a race car driver and Dale dropped out of high school to pursue .... On February 15, 1998, after 20 years of trying, racing great Dale Earnhardt Sr.
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Fittipaldi Wins Indy 500 After Collision With Unser - NYTimes.com  Published: May 29, 1989 ... On the next to last lap of the 200-lap race today, Fittipaldi and Unser ... Unser won after knocking Fittipaldi into the wall while trying to pass ... Only one driver could come out of that situation, Unser said, ''and it was Emerson.'' ... We came out of Turn 2 and Al junior had to back off because there...
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Johnny Rutherford - Indianapolis Motor Speedway  Johnny Rutherford, dubbed 'Lone Star JR' dues to his Texas heritage, is one of ... though he scored his first Indy car race win at Atlanta Motor Speedway in ... He finally saw Indy's checkered flag by finishing ninth in the rain-shortened 1973 race after ... the 1976 race was called after just 255 miles with Rutherford out in front.
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Articles about Danny Sullivan - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Two other drivers, Bobby Rahal and Emerson Fittipaldi, also got past before Unser could ... The three-time Indy 500 winner gave teammate Danny Sullivan a tip Saturday ... "I guess their computers are better than ours," said Michael Andretti...
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What's the Real Problem with NASCAR? | Four Turns  Dec 3, 2012 ... Once billed as the "fastest growing sport in America", NASCAR has seen their ... as "The Intimidator" recorded seven championships throughout his ... The "like him or hate him" mentality also applied to Rusty Wallace, the .... Kulwicki had made the "Polish Victory Lap" very popular throughout his career and...
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The divided 500: the 1996 Indy and U.S. 500s, 20 years later ...  May 26, 2016 ... And so May 26, 1996, began 20 years ago today with 60 drivers and ... What he didn't know was I qualified him in his backup car. ..... The Indianapolis start went fine, albeit down one car with Johnny Unser unable to start the race due to a ... field of 33 at that 500 managed to complete its start with no issues.
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1962 Daytona 500 - Wikipedia  The 1962 Daytona 500, was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Sprint Cup Series) event that was held on February 18, 1962 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was won by Fireball Roberts driving a 1962 Pontiac. ... It wanted the drivers to focus on its own stock car racing series. The Indy...
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ESPN Classic - Classic Indy 500 moments  In realizing his boyhood dream, Ribbs, the son of an amateur race driver from ... 1987: Al Unser Sr., driving in a year-old car he had to beg to drive, wins his ... Rick Mears streaks into Indy 500 history when he wins the event for the fourth time, ... Mears, 39, gets into the Indy record book after outracing Michael Andretti in a...
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ESPN Classic - Classic Indy 500 moments  The 35-year-old driver becomes the first African-American driver to qualify for the Indy ... miles per hour, the fastest on the final day of qualifying, to bump former Indy winner ... Last year, Janet Guthrie was the first woman to officially enter the Indy 500, the ... "We were running like turtles," four-time winner A.J. Foyt says testily.
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Sullivan Bumps Unser From Win At Long Beach - tribunedigital ...  Apr 13, 1992 ... ... grasp, Unser was tapped from behind by teammate Danny Sullivan, who drove ... Two other drivers, Bobby Rahal and Emerson Fittipaldi, also got past ... he got through the first lap and Michael Andretti go out with a broken...
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News & Multimedia - Indianapolis Motor Speedway  Dec 7, 2012 ... 15 at Auto Club Speedway, Ryan Hunter-Reay said the ... Michael Andretti with a $1 million championship bonus check and replicas of Astor ... Award from Gregory & Appel Insurance for winning the most races. ... the 45th annual BorgWarner Louis Schwitzer Award on May 20 at the ... Borg Warner Trophy.
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Daytona 500 - Wikipedia  The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long (805 km) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series motor race held ... The 2013 Daytona 500 was held on February 24, the first time the race was ... Earlier events featured 200-mile (320 km) races with stock cars. .... driver to run a qualifying lap over 200 mph (320 km/h) in his Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
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Auto Racing Yearender - UPI Archives - UPI.com  Dec 23, 1981 ... Unser's boss, Roger Penske, appealed the decision and four months ... At 47, Bobby Unser was the oldest driver on the Indy circuit and the oldest to at Indy. ... Waltrip won races at almost every major track, but vVictory still eluded ... In other auto racing matters, the United States Auto Club rescinded a rule...
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Death of Dale Earnhardt - Wikipedia  He was killed instantly in a final-lap collision in the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, in which he crashed into the retaining...
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Fittipaldi Taps Out Unser Late-race Collision Gives Brazilian First ...  May 29, 1989 ... INDIANAPOLIS -- Al Unser Jr. got out of his wrecked car, walked to the ... And Emerson Fittipaldi was providing the lesson for the kid from Albuquerque, N.M.. The pair`s wheel-to-wheel dual on the 199th lap of Sunday`s ... Unser won the Meadowlands event after Fittipaldi was knocked out in the incident.
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Jeff Gordon - Wikipedia  Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is an American professional stock car ... He is a four-time Sprint Cup champion, having won the title in 1995, 1997, .... At Charlotte, Gordon won The Winston in a Jurassic Park scheme; the car ... Gordon became the third driver to win four Cup championships in NASCAR...
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J! Archive - Show #2998, aired 1997-09-17  Both he & son Michael are among the top 20 money earners on the Indy Car circuit ... Clinton thought this former Arizona governor superior; he made him...