Dale Earnhardt Sr.

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Dale Sr. drove the 3, 7, 8, 15, and 45 cars in the Busch Series.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. died on February 18, 2001 at the age of 49.

Yes, he did. In 2010, Dale Sr. was one of the first five members to be inducted into the Nascar Hall of Fame. The others were Richard Petty, Junior Johnson, Bill France Sr. and Bill France Jr.

Dale Sr. was killed at Daytona International Speedway, located in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Dale Sr. was nicknamed 'Ironhead' due to his stubborn ways. When he first started dirt track racing, he wouldn't take advice from everyone.

Unfortunately this way of thinking helped lead to his untimely death. Dale never wanted to wear head and neck restraints, because they were uncomfortable and restrictive. Wearing the HANS device is now mandatory in Nascar.

No, Dale Earnhardt Sr. has never been arrested for speeding.

No. Dale Sr. was killed on the last lap of the Daytona 500 on February 18, 2001.

Most likely he did not take any drugs. It was Tim Richmond who did and ended up dying from AIDS.

Yes, she is.

He is almost guaranteed to crash again at some point. That is a part of auto racing that will not change. Whether it is his fault or not.

No, Dale is buried on his private family estate. Visitors are not permitted.

No, he is not. They were both former teammates at DEI.

Currently, there are no plans for either Dale Jr. or RCR to bring the black #3 GM Goodwrench Chevy back to the race track.

Dale Jr. just won the Nationwide Series race at Daytona this year on July 2, driving the #3 Wrangler car in honor of his Dad. Bittersweet victory.

Dale Sr. won the Heinz Southern 500 on September 2, 1990, starting from the pole.

Not to my knowledge, he did drive a pink Ford. The k2, which was his first race car.

He drove the pink car for part of 1980 and the other part of 1980 he drove the Oldsmobile owned by Rod Osterlund and it was sponsored by Mike Curb productions.

His first dirt-track car was a 1956 hot-pink Ford Sedan, which he got from his neighbors, David and Ray Oliver. His father had built the engine, and some other friends, Frank and Wayne Dayvault and their cousin Gregg, tuned it. They intended to paint the car avocado green, but a paint mishap resulted in the car being pink. They could not afford to repaint it, and he raced the pink car on dirt tracks around Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dale Earnhardt did drive a Pontiac in 1981 sponsored by Wrangler, but it was not pink

In 1980, Dale Sr. drove 28 races with a Chevrolet and 3 races with an Oldsmobile. He only drove a Pontiac during the 1981 season. The pink car was his first dirt track car and it was a Ford.

In the closing laps of the 1997 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt flipped his car after contact with Jeff Gordon. After the wreck, got out of the car, but then got back in and drove the wrecked car to the finish.

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Dale Sr's car made slight contact with Sterling Marlin's #40 and as he slid up the track he collided with Ken Schrader's #36, causing both cars to go nose first into the wall.

They were, but the strapping was torn.

Earnhardt didn't like tight seat belts; he usually wore them real loose. He also wore an open-face helmet. At the first impact, his helmet spun around 90 degrees so his nose was where one of his ears normally was. On the second impact, the side of the helmet broke his neck, which is mostly what killed him.

All this is academic: the Three Car (what it was called in the official report) ran head-on into the wall doing 165 miles per hour. That's not survivable.

Dale Sr. was killed at Daytona Motor Speedway on February 18, 2001. This was due to an accident on the last lap of the Daytona 500.