(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.

NASCAR fans discuss the impact of Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s unfortunate death in 2001 on the sport and its safety standards.

Tony Stewart remembers life-threatening Daytona 500 crash, reflecting on safety changes after Earnhardt's tragic death.

Shocked Dale Earnhardt Jr Explores 50-Year Old Unsolved Mysteries of His Dad’s Daytona Legacy appeared first on EssentiallySports.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s dad famously won seven NASCAR Cup Series championships before tragically losing his life at Daytona in ...

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 ...

Retired NASCAR Cup Series driver Ken Schrader has never shared publicly what he saw when he peered into the cockpit of Dale Earnhardt's battered #3 car following a last-lap crash in the 2001 ...

A retired racing driver and his family have survived a plane crash in the US state of Tennessee. Former Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr, his wife and daughter escaped without serious injury ...

s fatal crash, which happened just ... void and bittersweet nature of his 2001 Daytona 500 victory, which coincided with the tragic death of Dale Earnhardt. Sharing his thoughts surrounding ...