When did Dale Ernheart Sr. die? What was the year?

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Death
The final turn of 2001's Daytona 500Always a media favorite, in the weeks before the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt stirred up controversy by skipping the annual fan and media preview event, drawing ire from fellow driver Jimmy Spencer. Two weeks before the Daytona 500, Earnhardt kicked off the annual Speedweeks at Daytona by competing with his son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., in the Rolex 24, a twenty-four hour sports car race which utilizes the Daytona International Speedway's infield roadcourse. The father-son duo were part of a four-man driving team, each taking turns driving the #3 Chevrolet Corvette in two-hour shifts. Earnhardt seemed to enjoy this new style of racing immensely, and the involvement of the Earnhardts brought a surge of publicity to the event and to American sports car racing in general.

Despite the early start, Speedweeks would be a disappointment for Earnhardt, who had a long-running tradition of winning at least one race during the two-week season kick-off. Earnhardt finished second to Tony Stewart in the Budweiser Shootout, a seventy-lap exhibition race for drivers and teams who won a pole position during the previous year, and also for any previous winner of the Shootout. Earnhardt was also denied victory in the Gatorade Twin 125 qualifying race in which he participated; the finishing order of the Twin 125s determine the starting order for the Daytona 500. Earnhardt had won every Twin 125 event he competed in during the 1990s, and was leading on the final lap in 2001 when Sterling Marlin pulled off a slingshot pass going down the backstretch, denying Earnhardt victory. In the IROC event held prior to the Daytona 500, Earnhardt was leading late in the race when he was accidentally spun out. He managed to control the IROC car in spectacular fashion, driving through the track's infield grass at speeds well over 150 miles per hour, but victory was again stolen from the 49 year old Earnhardt.

Taking it in stride, Earnhardt appeared relaxed and confident in television interviews on the morning of the 2001 Daytona 500.

When the Daytona 500 started, Earnhardt showed early promise, leading the race and running up front for most of the event. During a pit stop, Earnhardt made contact with the #36 car of Ken Schrader. Though the incident didn't cause any damage, it would later prove ironic.

A multicar wreck late in the race eliminated several cars in spectacular fashion. Tony Stewart, who had beaten Earnhardt in the Budweiser Shootout, found his car tumbling wildly down the backstretch. As it tumbled, Earnhardt managed to weave his way through wrecked cars and come out unscathed. The race was stalled to facilitate cleanup of the track, and when the race resumed, it was Earnhardt, Earnhardt, Jr., and Michael Waltrip who were running up front. The race was Waltrip's first driving for Earnhardt's team. Waltrip had also been winless in more than a decade of racing, with the sole exception of an exhibition race which doesn't count toward total wins. As the laps wound down, Waltrip was leading Earnhardt, Jr. Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was running third in the #3 car.

Going into the final turn during the last lap, Earnhardt's car seemed to slow. There was contact between the back bumper of Earnhardt's car and the nose of Sterling Marlin's. Earnhardt’s car spun off the track's steep banking, onto the flat apron, and then turned sharply up the track, toward the outside retaining wall. For a moment, it looked like Earnhardt would hang onto the car and drive to a top-five finish, but another car - the #36 Pontiac driven by Ken Schrader - rammed Earnhardt's Chevrolet in the passenger door and spun the car nose-first into the wall. Earnhardt's #3 hit at a critical angle at nearly 150 miles per hour. The left-rear wheel assembly broke off the car on impact. The hood pins severed and the hood flapped open, slamming against the windshield as the car slid slowly down the track.

To most observers, the crash looked minor. After all, Earnhardt had survived the tumbling crash at Talladega in 1996 when his car was pelted several times in the roof and windshield as it rolled across the track.

While Michael Waltrip raced toward the checkered flag to claim his first official victory with Dale Earnhardt, Jr., close behind, the cars of Earnhardt, Sr., and Schrader slid off the track's asphalt banking toward in the infield grass just inside of turn four.

After climbing from the wreck of his car, Schrader was the first person to approach Earnhardt's car post-crash. As medical crews converged upon the crash scene, a Fox reporter asked Schrader about Earnhardt's condition. "I'm not a doctor," Schrader said solemnly. Hours later, at a NASCAR press conference, it was announced to the world what millions already feared from Schrader's somber reply, what had already been reported by the popular NASCAR news site Jayski. Dale Earnhardt was dead.

Earnhardt died in a last-lap crash during the 2001 Daytona 500, the fourth NASCAR driver to die in the nine months since Adam Petty's death in May 2000. Due in large part to overwhelming fan outcry, NASCAR began an intensive focus on safety that has seen the organization mandate the use of head-and-neck restraints (currently, only the HANS device is approved for competition), oversee the installation of SAFER barriers at all oval tracks, set rigorous new rules for seat-belt and seat inspection, develop a roof-hatch escape system, and develop a next-generation race car built with extra driver safety in mind, dubbed the Car of Tomorrow.

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on febuarey 18 2001 at daytona motor speed way. When i say the highlights off it it made me cry because he was my favorite racer of all time period

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