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Wed 10 Oct 2009A stock car legend remembered for his bold driving style
PAST IMPERFECT: Dale Earnhardt is famous not for the championships he won – but for the way he won them
IT’S AN old story: the high-school dropout who makes good in sport. In this case the sport was Nascar, the most popular form of motor racing in the world, and the high-school dropout was Dale Earnhardt, known as “Ironhead” or “The Intimidator” to his legion of fans who, eight years after his death on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, revere him and have given rise to a multi-million dollar merchandise industry.
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