Dale Ernhardt Biography

Autumn Clausen
Ms.Davis
G5 College Prep English 1
31 March 2017
The Race That Keeps On Going Dale Earnhardt was born on April 29th of 1951. He was a legend to many people. Then one day everything changed. It was the final lap on the Daytona 500 race in 2001. Dale Earnhardt was on the final lap of the race when he bumped into by Sterling Marlin. It sent him swerving for a few seconds and then he smashed right into the wall (Jacksonville.com). Ken Schrader was there pushing Dale along because Dale had almost hit the fourth-turn wall. Everyone from the audience and at home were watching and waiting for the race to start again. People all around wanted to know if Dale was okay. Hours later they finally learned the truth. We later on learned that
We continue to see that as society continues to grow the safer we need to be and we need to have regulations on how to keep our society safe. NASCAR has made more improvements other than the ones mentioned above such as five point safety harnesses, fuel cells, onboard fire extinguishers, advances in tires, window netting, fire retardant uniforms and purpose-built racing seats. One of the most important device or improvement that they had made was the HANS device, it is a u-shaped collar and it is worn underneath harness belts. The HANS device restricts the movement of a driver’s head in case of a hard impact.
These improvements have actually helped the other drivers. Although Dale is no longer alive we have seen that his death has improved the ways that NASCAR has made regulations mandatory so that accidents such as this one do not happen or the impact does not hurt a racer as much as they used to before they made the new rules. In a way Dale changed the way NASCAR views important subjects such as a crash or injury during a race. The more ways that we can help other racers the more we can see that the people are what
In Dale’s last race everyone was pushing to get to the top, pulling all the strings and fighting for that metal. Dale just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and it hurt him badly, everyone was saying if only that seat belt did screw up maybe Dale could still be here with us today winning more medals and cups coming out on top. As soon as the accident happened you just had this feeling of knowing that it was bad that something was not right. One of the other drivers ran to Dale’s car and he said he knew instantly that Dale had been dead, it was just a tragedy that no one wanted to hear about (Ten Ater 3: Sterling