Considered one of the best NASCAR drivers of all time, Earnhardt won a total of 76 races over the course of his career, including one Daytona 500 victory in 1998.

While driving in the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt died of basilar skull fracture in a last-lap crash at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001.

In 1983, Earnhardt rebounded and won his first of 12 Twin 125 Daytona 500 qualifying races.

Near the end of the Daytona 500, he had a four-second lead when the final caution flag came out with a handful of laps to go.

The No. 3 Goodwrench Chevy team took the flat tire that cost them the win and hung it on the shop wall as a reminder of how close they'd come to winning the Daytona 500.

Earnhardt once again came close to a win at the Daytona 500, and dominated Speedweeks before finishing second to Dale Jarrett on a last-lap pass.

Earnhardt started off the 1995 season by finishing second in the Daytona 500 to Sterling Marlin.

1996 for Earnhardt started just as it had done in 1993 – he dominated Speedweeks only to finish second in the Daytona 500 to Dale Jarrett for a second time.

Once again in the hunt for the Daytona 500 with 10 laps to go, Earnhardt was taken out of contention by a late crash which sent his car upside down on the backstretch.

1998 saw Earnhardt win the Daytona 500 after not winning in the previous 19 attempts.

In the weeks before the annual Daytona 500, Earnhardt elected not to attend the annual fan and media preview event, drawing vocal criticism from fellow driver Jimmy Spencer.

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

This led to an emotional celebration on the infield with driver Michael Waltrip ( who finished in second place ), whose victory at the Daytona 500 was vastly overshadowed.

Their finishing order was the reverse of the Daytona 500 finish order.

* Earnhardt Jr. later went on to win the 2004 Daytona 500, three years after his father's death and six years to the day after his father won the 1998 Daytona 500.

* Every three years since Earnhardt's death, someone associated with Earnhardt has won the Daytona 500 ( his son Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in 2004, Earnhardt's replacement Cup driver Kevin Harvick in 2007, and Earnhardt Ganassi's Jamie McMurray in 2010.

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* 1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

* 2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

" The King ", as he is nicknamed, is most well known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times ( Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat ), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races ( ten of them consecutively ) in the 1967 season alone.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

The most famous event in the series is the Daytona 500, an annual race at Daytona Beach, Florida.

The most famous might well be Mario Andretti, who is the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 ( 1969 ), NASCAR's Daytona 500 ( 1967 ), and the Formula One World Championship ( 1978 ).

* The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman University, is founded.

The Daytona 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series motor race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The Daytona 500 is regarded as the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar, carrying by far the largest purse.

The winner of the Daytona 500 is presented with the Harley J. Earl Trophy in Victory Lane, and the winning car is displayed, in race-winning condition, for one year at Daytona 500 Experience, a museum and gallery adjacent to Daytona International Speedway.

The race is the direct successor of shorter races held on Daytona Beach.

By 1961, it began to be referred to as the " Daytona 500 ", by which it is still commonly known.

Daytona International Speedway is long and a 500-mile race requires 200 laps to complete.

The qualifying procedure is unique for the Daytona 500.

For NASCAR Grand National winners at Daytona from 1949 – 1958, see Daytona Beach & Road Course. Mario Andretti, born in Italy, is the only driver to win the race not from the United States.

This has become attractive since the 1990s, especially since more traditional spring break places such as Daytona Beach, Florida have become restrictive on drinking and other behaviors.

One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses ; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.

They also host the NCA / NDA Collegiate Cheer & Dance Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Earnhardt scored six wins en route to his sixth Winston Cup title, including wins in the Coca-Cola 600 and The Winston at Charlotte, and the Pepsi 400 at Daytona.

The only ( non-points ) win came during Speedweeks at Daytona in the Twin 125-mile qualifying race, his record 8th straight win in the event.

On February 3 and 4, 2001, the first time in his career, Earnhardt participated in the Rolex 24 endurance race at Daytona, the event which kicks off Speedweeks at the track.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Mossberg's latest contribution to the field is the Model 500 ( from $73.50 ) ; ;

Total manpower is about 130, 500.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

Argon is the third most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere, at 0. 93 % ( 9, 300 ppm ), making it approximately 23. 8 times as abundant as next most common atmospheric gas, carbon dioxide ( 390 ppm ), and more than 500 times as abundant as the next most common noble gas, neon ( 18 ppm ).

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

It is believed that at the end of the Neolithic Period ( around 4000 BC ), Achill had a population of 500 – 1, 000 people.

Engineers estimated that once the project is finished, the tunnel will allow 500 million cubic meters of water to be drawn from the lake annually, while maintaining a constant water level.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

The Andes is rich in fauna: With almost 3, 500 species, of which roughly 2 / 3 are endemic to the region, the Andes is the most important region in the world for amphibians.

Aloe, also Aloë, is a genus containing about 500 species of flowering succulent plants.

There are at least 500 known games for the Electron and the true total is probably in the thousands.

The death toll is 315, with nearly 5, 500 injured.

* 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $ 500, 000.

For example, if James's will states that he is leaving his $ 500, 000 yacht to his brother Mike, the yacht would be a specific devise.

For example, if James's will states that he is leaving $ 500, 000 to his son Sam then the money would be a general devise.

The Chief Justice has certain administrative responsibilities that the other Justices do not and is paid slightly more ($ 223, 500 per year for the Chief Justice and $ 213, 900 per year for each Associate Justice ).

The Baltic Sea's salinity is much lower than that of ocean water ( which averages 35 ‰), as a result of abundant freshwater runoff from the surrounding land, combined with the shallowness of the sea itself ; indeed, runoff contributes roughly one-fortieth its total volume per year, as the volume of the basin is about 21, 000 km³ and yearly runoff is about 500 km³.

The most important of these is the daily Sovetskaya Belarussia – Belarus segodnya ( Soviet Belarus – Belarus Today ), published by the presidential administration, with a circulation of about 500, 000.

Bulgaria's total military personnel as of late 2010 is 34, 500, of which 30, 400 ( 88. 1 %) are active military personnel and 4, 100 ( 11. 9 %) are civilian personnel.

In addition to its professional staff, the SIG is supported by its more than 16, 500 member companies who participate in the various working groups that produce the standardization documents and oversee the qualification process for new products and help to evangelize the technology.