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also known as The Man in Black, Ironhead, The Intimidator

race car driver

Dale Earnhardt was a champion stock car driver with NASCAR who won seven championships. He drove in NASCAR's top division and was the first driver to win Rookie of the Year and the championship back-to-back. In total, Earnhardt -- known as won seven Winston Cup Championships and broke $30 million in career earnings. [http://www.biography.com/people/dale-earnhardt-9542044]

Background

Dale Earnhardt was born on the 29th of April, 1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA. His father Ralph Earnhardt was a well-known racecar driver. [http://www.biography.com/people/dale-earnhardt-9542044]

Education

He dropped out of school in the ninth grade.

Career

Over the course of his driving career, Earnhardt entered 676 Winston Cup races, won 76 of them, and amassed more than $40 million in prize money. He was also a four-time winner of the International Race of Champions series (1990, 1995, 1999, 2000).

Achievements

  • 1979 - Named National Society for Stock Car Racing Rookie of the Year, 1980, 1986-87, 1990-91, 1993-94 - Winston Cup winner, 1986 - Shatters the track speed record at the Atlanta Journal 500, 1994 -Ties Richard Petty for most Winston Cup championships, 1995 - Wins the International Race of Champions series, 1998 - Wins the Daytona 500.

    [http://sports.jrank.org/pages/1300/Earnhardt-Dale-Sr-Awards-Accomplishments.html]

Views

Quotations: "You win some, lose some, and wreck some."

“You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.”

“You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bigger than his or his woman had longer hair. That’s competition.”

“Second Place is just the first place loser.”

“God created bumpers and… bumpers were made for bumping!”

I didn’t make Dale Jr. go be a racer. The kid wanted to be a racer. I’d just as soon him be a doctor, a preacher or whatever. I’m not sure I’d want him to be a lawyer.

I taught you everything you know but I didn’t teach you everything I know.

"Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up there and eat that candy ass."

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

Anything but first sucks!

There is only one lap you want to lead, and that's the last lap.

What makes the Monte Carlo so good? ME!

I'll apologize to them after they get me to the front!

[https://sites.google.com/site/allmyfavoritequotes/nascar-quotes/dale-earnhardt-sr-quotes]

Personality

In contrast with his image as a hardnosed competitor on the track, off the track he was known to his friends as someone who was charitable and generous, but usually kept that side of himself hidden from the rest of the world.

[http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Dale_Earnhardt]

Interests

  • hunting and fishing and working on the farm in Mooresville

    [http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Dale_Earnhardt]

Connections

He was 3 times married and had 4 children.

Father:
Ralph Earnhardt
Ralph Earnhardt - Father of Dale Earnhardt

Ralph Lee Earnhardt was born February 23, 1928, in Kannapolis North Carolina. Ralph Earnhardt passed away, from a heart attack, on September 26, 1973, at the age of 45.

[http://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/Hall-of-Fame-Members/Bio.aspx?q=Ralph%20Earnhardt]

Mother:
Martha Coleman
Martha Coleman  - Mother of Dale Earnhardt

She was the 15 of July in 1930.

1st wife:
Latane Brown
Latane Brown - 1st wife of Dale Earnhardt

Dale Earnhardt married Latane Brown in 1968. They had a son together named Kerry who was born the following year in 1969. Dale Sr and Latane then got a divorce in 1970 soon after the birth of Kerry. [http://www.playerwives.com/nascar/dale-earnhardts-wife-ex-wife-and-ex-wife/]

2nd wife:
Brenda Gee
Brenda Gee - 2nd wife of Dale Earnhardt

In 1971 Dale married his second wife Brenda Gee. Together they had a daughter named Kelly King in 1972 and a son named Ralph Dale Earnardt Jr in 1974. Soon after Dale Jr was born Dale Sr and Brenda got a divorce.

[http://www.playerwives.com/nascar/dale-earnhardts-wife-ex-wife-and-ex-wife/]

3rd wife:
Teresa Earnhardt
Teresa Earnhardt - 3rd wife of Dale Earnhardt

in 1982 Dale married his 3rd and last wife Teresa Houston (Now Teresa Earnhardt). Together they had a daughter Taylor Nicole in 1988.

[http://www.playerwives.com/nascar/dale-earnhardts-wife-ex-wife-and-ex-wife/]

1st son:
Kerry Earnhardt
Kerry Earnhardt - 1st son of Dale Earnhardt

He was born on the 8th of December, 1969. His mother Latane Brown was Dale Earnhardt's first wife.

1st daughter:
Kelley Earnhardt Miller
Kelley Earnhardt Miller - 1st daughter of Dale Earnhardt

She was born on the 28th of August in 1972. Her mother Brenda Gee was Dale Earnhardt's second wife.

2nd son:
Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr. - 2nd son of Dale Earnhardt

He was on the 10th of October, 1974. His mother Brenda Gee was Dale Earnhardt's second wife.

2nd daughter:
Taylor Nicole Earnhardt
Taylor Nicole Earnhardt - 2nd daughter of Dale Earnhardt

She was in 1988. Her mother Teresa Houston was Dale Earnhardt's third and last wife