(AP) -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car star of his era, was killed in a crash on the last turn of the last lap of Sunday’s Daytona 500 as he tried to protect Michael Waltrip’s victory.

This year's Daytona 500 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the 2001 Daytona 500, where NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt was killed in a crash on the last turn of the final lap after he spent the closing ...

Fans react to Frankie Muniz riding in the Pace car for the 2001 Daytona 500 ahead of the crash that killed Dale Earnhardt.

From the Spring 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law ... a NASCAR-paid physician who attended to Earnhardt after the crash, to view the Volusia County medical examiner’s autopsy photographs and ...

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. holds the Corvette C5-R that he drove along with his father in the 2001 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona as a prized possession.

Earnhardt, who was from Kannapolis, died in a last-lap crash at the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 18, 2001. Years ago, when they renamed the state route outside Earnhardt ...