Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. /ˈɜːrnhɑːrt/, known professionally as Dale Earnhardt, was an American race car driver and team owner, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR. He began his career in 1975 in the World 600 as part of the Winston Cup Series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth29 April 1951
CityKannapolis, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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To think anybody could come from as far back in the field as we were and win this race is beyond me. You saw it. I couldn't believe it.
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the winner ain't the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose
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I'm racing for the wins and racing up front and finishing in the top 10. It's puzzling to me how you can judge a driver on that.
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But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.
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That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I see it on pit road when we make better pit stops and that comes from harder work back at the shop, practicing, testing, trying to get better.
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If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.
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When I first started running here, I didn't get around the place very good. It was just a real hot, slick race track for me. I don't know what happened, but we showed up one week and this thing was just really, really fast and we've been fast ever since. So it's something in the car or in the set-up of the car that Tony Jr. found -- maybe at a test at Richmond or somewhere -- that has helped us here. That's really how we won those races and turned it around from the first races we had here. So that has a lot to do with it.