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00:00:00And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
00:00:20Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
00:00:31Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
00:00:43O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
00:00:58Brave, brave, brave!
00:01:29Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
00:01:39O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
00:01:52Oh, the day we met our well was gray
00:01:58And the storm was coming down and I'd been lost my way.
00:02:21And the storm was coming down and I'd been lost my way.
00:02:36And the storm was coming down and I'd been lost my way.
00:02:46And the storm was coming down and I'd been lost my way.
00:02:56And the storm was coming down and I'd been lost my way.
00:03:06And the storm was coming down and I'd been lost my way.
00:03:36And Ralph Earnhardt, in the eight, takes the checkered flag for the sixth time this season.
00:03:46Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
00:03:51Earnhardt! Hey! Yeah! Daddy! Earnhardt!
00:03:58Yeah!
00:04:02Earnhardt, you bastard. You gotta give me some of that prize money to pay for my car.
00:04:08Hey, don't hurt your foot, Billy.
00:04:11You can just use it to pay for your own car.
00:04:17Why'd you let that guy kick your car, Daddy?
00:04:20The race is over. Some damn fool come after you like that, you'll never get out of your car.
00:04:26What if he's got a knife or a gun?
00:04:29It ain't about balls, because you already showed him you're a man.
00:04:35On the track.
00:04:39Now shut and go to sleep.
00:04:40Let's do this, Mama.
00:04:42I mean it, Dale. You keep an eye on Danny.
00:04:46Good run, Ralph.
00:04:47Thank you.
00:04:51You got the prize money. Now we're only one month behind.
00:04:55That's enough to put food on the table. I come first.
00:05:00After that, it's racing.
00:05:02I won't go back to that mill, Martha. I won't.
00:05:08I told you I won't make this work.
00:05:10And I will.
00:05:18And she up and walked away
00:05:23And I'll bet you dread to spend another lonely night with me
00:05:33Lonely waltz, I'll keep you company
00:05:42Hello, wind
00:05:46Well, I see that you're still here
00:05:51Aren't you lonely?
00:05:56Since our darling disappeared
00:06:01Well, look here, is that a teardrop
00:06:06In the corner of your eye?
00:06:12Well, if you could tell me that it's rain
00:06:18That you gave it away
00:06:22That you left us all
00:06:25What I'd give to have the power
00:06:28To read your mind for an hour
00:06:30How I'd love to be alone with you
00:06:41Hey, Daddy.
00:06:51Better ease up on that truck.
00:06:53Think you're a race car driver or something?
00:06:56Mechanic, maybe. If you work at it.
00:07:02Why don't you make yourself useful and check out oil?
00:07:07Well, he was tizzier than I was.
00:07:11Anyway, all I got that time was a broken collarbone
00:07:14And broke my nose, that's all.
00:07:16Is that why you quit racing?
00:07:18Some of us have got a real job, Ralph.
00:07:21When you lose a race, you don't eat that week.
00:07:23You wreck your car, I don't guess you eat that month.
00:07:25Yep. That's why I don't wreck them.
00:07:31Hey, Wayne.
00:07:37Look again.
00:07:40Remember them axle keys keep breaking?
00:07:43Well, that number six screwdriver shaft makes a great axle key
00:07:46And it won't bust in your race.
00:07:48Been using it for three weeks now, no problem.
00:07:52That's how come you bought the whole box of them?
00:07:54That's right. So nobody else can.
00:07:58It ain't enough not to wreck.
00:08:00But to have a car won't quit on you, too.
00:08:15So you'd let me take this out and race it tomorrow?
00:08:18Yeah. Went over everything twice.
00:08:22Don't think I missed nothing.
00:08:25You sure?
00:08:27Let me check it again.
00:08:46I'm telling you, Dad, I don't see nothing.
00:08:51Well, maybe you better grab that nine-sixteenths wrench
00:08:55And tighten them two bolts on the radiator.
00:08:59Because if that thing blows, I'll get nothing but steam in my face.
00:09:01I might hit the damn wall.
00:09:07You know why I ride you, son?
00:09:10Why, sir?
00:09:13Because you don't try hard enough.
00:09:23Ain't nobody works harder than me.
00:09:25The kind of grades you get?
00:09:27Grades don't matter on a racetrack, Daddy.
00:09:31Besides, I already quit school.
00:09:36You what?
00:09:38Ain't no big deal you quit school to race.
00:09:41I left to support my family.
00:09:44You think you're gonna put food on the table by quitting school?
00:09:48You ain't no race car driver.
00:09:50Neither were you once.
00:09:51Hell, you ain't even a man yet.
00:09:55I ain't going back to school, Daddy.
00:09:58Well, then get the hell out of my garage.
00:10:12You won't be a racer or nothing else, boy.
00:10:16You'll just be another linhead working in the mill your whole life
00:10:19because that's what happens to quitters.
00:10:33Dale Earnhardt is in the pink K2 car, and he's looking good.
00:10:44Tim Bowers of the 36 is running third.
00:10:49That's Earnhardt making a move.
00:11:11Daddy, have a look.
00:11:13Earnhardt and Bowers are fighting for the spot.
00:11:16The train painted every turn.
00:11:27Looks like K2 is number one.
00:11:31Proud Earnhardt's boy Dale has just won himself a race.
00:11:35See this?
00:11:36It's called the Feed Mine.
00:11:38Best there in the world for a racetrack.
00:11:40This stretch of red clay goes all the way from Alabama to Virginia.
00:11:44Tell them about the Moonshiners, Dale.
00:11:46Oh, best drivers in the world right here in North Carolina.
00:11:50Moonshiners.
00:11:51I run them cops on the back country roads.
00:11:53You ever hear of Junior Johnson?
00:11:55Oh, I heard of Ralph Earnhardt.
00:11:57He's your daddy, ain't he?
00:11:58Yeah, my daddy's a great driver.
00:12:00Best of them all.
00:12:02So what do you figure, baby?
00:12:04We going to have a big time?
00:12:06Spend some of this prize money?
00:12:08I don't know, I'm getting kind of tired.
00:12:12$300?
00:12:14Yeah, 20 minutes of driving, Mama.
00:12:17It's worth three weeks in the shop to make that much.
00:12:20Well, that's great, honey.
00:12:22But don't you got to put some of that money back into your car?
00:12:25Yeah, a little bit.
00:12:26We're okay, ain't we, baby?
00:12:27We stopped by Miller's on the way home, Mama.
00:12:29Looked at a new crib.
00:12:31Oh, there's one that's all maple wood.
00:12:33It's so pretty.
00:12:39Hi, Mr. Earnhardt.
00:12:40Hey, Daddy.
00:12:41Hello, Latane. Dale.
00:12:42Ralph.
00:12:44Dale won today over at the racetrack.
00:12:46He's never done that before.
00:12:49Won myself 300 bucks.
00:12:52Yeah, on the dirt.
00:12:54Real money's on the asphalt.
00:12:56What are you talking about?
00:12:57You made yourself a legend out here racing out on dirt.
00:13:00That legend flies about as far as the dirt off them tires.
00:13:05300 ain't much.
00:13:07Not with a baby on the way.
00:13:31Come on.
00:13:43Hey.
00:13:45What's the matter?
00:13:47Why are you so cold?
00:13:51Hey, gum's freezing in here, Latane.
00:13:54That ain't gonna help.
00:13:56Why? Are we out of propane?
00:13:58Is that a surprise to you?
00:14:00Yeah.
00:14:01Shh, baby.
00:14:03Okay.
00:14:05I ain't waiting till payday.
00:14:07You hear me?
00:14:08Not this time.
00:14:10You need to ask your daddy for some money.
00:14:12About your babysitting money?
00:14:14Spin it, Dale.
00:14:15On what?
00:14:16At the grocery.
00:14:17Would you look at how cold your baby is?
00:14:19Touch him.
00:14:20I know, I know.
00:14:22Hey, hey, listen, listen.
00:14:24We'll get through the night.
00:14:25We'll just cuddle up in sleeping bags.
00:14:28It's okay, it's okay.
00:14:30Did you have a chance to ask him about the overtime?
00:14:38I ain't working at the mill no more.
00:14:40Dale, what'd you do?
00:14:44Baby, I need to be out there racing.
00:14:46I'm gonna make this work, I promise.
00:14:49Promises ain't gonna heat this place up.
00:14:51Maybe not, but a first-place finish would.
00:14:53It's been six months since you won a race.
00:14:55Latane, you don't win racing once a month.
00:14:58You gotta be out there every weekend.
00:15:00Every weekend?
00:15:01God, what about us, huh?
00:15:03Baby, I'm doing this for us.
00:15:05Oh, no, get away from me.
00:15:06You're doing this for you.
00:15:08We can't even get by on a real job.
00:15:11I've been here all day trying to calm your baby down,
00:15:14and you come in here with this racing crap?
00:15:17Oh, God, no.
00:15:19You know, you could just tell Carrie all about it.
00:15:22Baby, I'm coming to sleep.
00:15:53Hey.
00:15:55Hey.
00:15:59Finally got him settled down.
00:16:01Why'd you bring him out here?
00:16:05Well, he needs you, Latane.
00:16:07How about you?
00:16:11You need me?
00:16:14Yeah.
00:16:17Sure I do.
00:16:22Okay.
00:16:52Come on.
00:17:22Come on.
00:17:24Come on.
00:17:26Come on.
00:17:52What'd you say had upset your mother?
00:17:57Well, Latane and their new husband, Jack,
00:18:01are gonna adopt Carrie.
00:18:03I gotta let them do it, Daddy.
00:18:05He's better off with them.
00:18:09When are you gonna learn what it takes to be a man?
00:18:18I know what it takes to be a man.
00:18:22Something neither one of us ever made working at that mill.
00:18:25Money.
00:18:28Don't look at me like that.
00:18:30You couldn't stand that place neither.
00:18:32All I want to do is race, Daddy.
00:18:35That's all I want.
00:18:37Just like you.
00:18:39I'm gonna be racing in Midtrolona in a couple of months.
00:18:42Against you.
00:18:44I'm gonna show you how good I am.
00:18:56We got a father and son team on the track today.
00:18:59We'll see if Ralph Bernhardt takes his boy, Dale, to school.
00:19:02Ralph's in the eight. Dale's in the 87.
00:19:12Ralph's got a big ol' lead. He's lapping the field.
00:19:26Ralph Bernhardt's givin' Dale a honk with the chrome board.
00:19:30Lookin' to make a move up.
00:19:39What's this? Ralph's done raced, pushing Dale into third place.
00:19:43A father-son team?
00:19:45I've never seen anything like it.
00:19:56Ralph Bernhardt wins again in Midtrolona.
00:19:59Willie Faye's in the second.
00:20:01And Dale Bernhardt finishes in the money.
00:20:06What do you say, Greg? How about we go out for drinks?
00:20:09Bernhardt, I ain't never seen bullcrap like that before in a racetrack.
00:20:12But Daddy pushed his son into place.
00:20:14Hey, he may be Ironheart, but the way you drive, you're just a plain Ironhead.
00:20:21Ironhead?
00:20:24Ironhead! Thanks, man!
00:20:27Well, look at you, Earnhardt. You've got yourself a nickname.
00:20:42Hey, just hold on a second. I gotta go.
00:20:47Hey, just wanted to thank you for helping me, please.
00:20:52Appreciate it.
00:20:55So how'd it do out there?
00:20:57Well, you were gonna let me pass when you should have kept going.
00:21:02I did everything I could to win.
00:21:05Dang near had the throttle up in the radiators.
00:21:07There's not enough power in that motor.
00:21:09Winner ain't the guy with the fastest car, son.
00:21:12He's just the one who refuses to lose.
00:21:22Hey, why don't you just buy one at the auto parts store?
00:21:25Well, because, Brenda, axle keys bust when you're racing.
00:21:29These screwdrivers he's got in there, they never break.
00:21:33Honey, it's only a screwdriver.
00:21:36You can't ask him for that.
00:21:38How you gonna ask him for the loan?
00:21:40Huh?
00:21:42I don't know.
00:21:44I don't know.
00:21:46I don't know.
00:21:48I don't know.
00:21:50I don't know how to ask for a loan.
00:21:53I don't know.
00:22:18So you got any more of them...
00:22:21...them screwdrivers you make into axle keys?
00:22:24Yeah.
00:22:32Thanks.
00:22:35How'd you run on Sunday?
00:22:37I'm pretty good, I guess.
00:22:39Till a wreck.
00:22:41Well, I guess you're gonna need more than that one little screwdriver, ain't you?
00:22:47You know, son...
00:22:50...they can't put it in you...
00:22:53...and they can't take it out.
00:23:00Thanks, Daddy.
00:23:11Hey, Mom.
00:23:13Dale.
00:23:16Brenda told me about the race.
00:23:19Why you gotta drive like that, Dale?
00:23:21Your daddy don't wreck.
00:23:23Daddy's got a better car, Mom.
00:23:28When you don't have the wheels, sometimes you gotta scare people a little.
00:23:32Intimidate them.
00:23:45I remember back when you were nice and sweet
00:23:49Things have changed and broken
00:23:51And I've been gone
00:23:54Hey.
00:23:56Dale!
00:24:15Hi.
00:24:17How's Mama doing?
00:24:19It's hard for her.
00:24:21Christmas without your daddy.
00:24:23Yeah, I know.
00:24:25How's Kelly and Dale Jr.? Are they doing all right?
00:24:28They miss their daddy.
00:24:30He's telling them I'll be home soon.
00:24:35I'm gonna miss you.
00:24:37I'm gonna miss you, too.
00:24:39I'm gonna miss you, too.
00:24:41I'm gonna miss you, too.
00:24:44Are you okay?
00:24:46Yeah, I'm fine.
00:24:48How you doing?
00:24:50Bill Frederick's called.
00:24:52He said you took out a three-week loan to fix your car.
00:24:56He said payments due on Monday.
00:24:59You ever planning on telling me about that, Dale?
00:25:02Could we just not get into this, please?
00:25:05I know it's Christmas and I know how hard you've been working, but...
00:25:10It's because you have two families, Dale.
00:25:13I mean, you've got us and you've got racing.
00:25:21Oh, man, I gotta get out of this.
00:25:26Look, I gotta place third or better in every race, and I will, Brenda.
00:25:32Because third will feed us and fourth won't.
00:25:41Come on.
00:25:55Earnhardt gets underneath Deacon.
00:25:57Puts him in a spin cycle.
00:26:01Carlton finishes first, Joe's second, and Dale Earnhardt places third.
00:26:06Hey, Earnhardt!
00:26:08I'll be Wheeler.
00:26:09Yeah, I know.
00:26:10Charlotte Motor Speedway, right?
00:26:11That's right.
00:26:12I'm gonna tell you what, son.
00:26:14You should be as good as your daddy.
00:26:16The way you wrecked Deacon out there so you'd finish in the money,
00:26:19that took some balls, son.
00:26:21Thank you.
00:26:22Hey, Earnhardt, you better watch your ass.
00:26:24I'm gonna tell you what.
00:26:26That took some balls, son.
00:26:27Thank you.
00:26:28Hey, Earnhardt, you better watch your ass.
00:26:31Earnhardt!
00:26:32You're a dead man!
00:26:33See you, humpy.
00:26:57You're pissing a lot of guys off, Earnhardt.
00:27:00You damn near run over me a couple times today.
00:27:03So I guess you pissed at me, too.
00:27:05Well, what the hell do you care?
00:27:07We ain't out there to make friends.
00:27:13Thanks.
00:27:16Name's Neil Bonnet.
00:27:17Good to meet you, Neil.
00:27:18Where you from?
00:27:19Hueytown.
00:27:20Hueytown?
00:27:21Hueytown.
00:27:22Hueytown.
00:27:23Hueytown.
00:27:24Hueytown.
00:27:25Hueytown.
00:27:26Hueytown.
00:27:27The Alabama gang, huh?
00:27:29Bobby Allison get you into racing?
00:27:31No, I got into racing because there's less competition than in pipe fitting.
00:27:36Go again?
00:27:37Oh, yeah.
00:27:38There's a whole bunch of fellas wanting my job as a pipe fitter.
00:27:42But, I mean, nobody wants to drive that piece of crap I've been racing.
00:27:48Hey, uh, you know you're going to have to deal with old Deke sooner or later.
00:27:52I mean, I doubt he'd waste you, what with there being a witness and everything.
00:27:55He'll be fine.
00:27:56We'll buy him a beer.
00:27:57Yeah, he'll be all right.
00:28:00Randy?
00:28:02Hello?
00:28:06Randy?
00:28:08I'm home, babe.
00:28:10Damn.
00:28:11What's up?
00:28:12What's up?
00:28:13What's up?
00:28:14What's up?
00:28:16Damn, Kelly.
00:28:17Daddy finished in the money.
00:28:46What?
00:29:08You know that there's more chickens in the world than there are people.
00:29:13Why couldn't there be more deer?
00:29:17Dale Earnhardt, man of no words.
00:29:26What is on your mind, boy?
00:29:32I swear, when I'm driving, I can see the air flowing over the car ahead of me.
00:29:36But the car I'm driving is a loser because it don't matter what I see.
00:29:39Ain't nobody racing Winston Kepp without big money behind him.
00:29:42Man, I ain't nothing but a stroker.
00:29:45For that, I blew two marriages.
00:29:50You can see the air?
00:29:53Oh, God, here comes some lookout!
00:29:56Crazy bastard.
00:30:01Yeah, well, you know what?
00:30:03The funny thing is, the day Brandon left me, I actually won some money racing.
00:30:07Actually won some money racing.
00:30:08Let it go, Dale.
00:30:10Man, I've been on the track with you.
00:30:12You're so damn determined, it's scary.
00:30:16Man.
00:30:19All you need is a break.
00:30:22There's one chance to race the cup.
00:30:28Race you to the truck.
00:30:30Hey! Hey!
00:30:32Don't make me shoot you!
00:30:38Hello?
00:30:40Yeah?
00:30:45Yes, sir. Yeah.
00:30:49Yeah, you bet. I'll be there.
00:30:52All right, then. Thank you.
00:30:55Bye.
00:31:00Whoo!
00:31:01Another Charlotte motorcyclist.
00:31:04Whoo!
00:31:05Although the Charlotte Motor Speedway has gone through a 3.5 million facelift,
00:31:09a lot of the main ingredients for the World 600 remain unchanged.
00:31:12At 600 miles, it's the longest NASCAR race on the calendar,
00:31:16and around this 1.5-mile, pretty bumpy track,
00:31:19it's a tremendously grueling test of man and machine.
00:31:22Did Cronkite happen to mention that he mortgaged his house to build this car?
00:31:28He mentioned it.
00:31:29Yeah, I thought so.
00:31:33Yeah, boy, I'll tell you, you know what a fan I was of your daddy.
00:31:37I'd go all the way back to the dirt tracks with Ralph Earnhardt.
00:31:42Yeah, most of those boys is just trading paint out there.
00:31:45Not your daddy, no, sir. He had built himself a race car, and he was crafty.
00:31:51Shoot, they put a bounty on him.
00:31:54Yeah, he was a great driver, yeah.
00:31:57One of the best.
00:32:03Are you okay?
00:32:05Yeah, I'm fine.
00:32:10I'll tell you what, Mr. Wheeler,
00:32:14Cronkite told me I'd wreck his car, and I'm both out of a job.
00:32:18I know I ain't gonna get but one shot at this.
00:32:23I don't know how I'm supposed to win, but I'm worried about wrecking.
00:32:28Well, how would your daddy answer that?
00:32:33I don't know.
00:32:39How's it feel, Dale?
00:32:40Pretty good.
00:32:45What are you doing?
00:32:48Hey, Dale, I'm just trying to win.
00:32:57Keep your cool now.
00:32:58Keep your cool now.
00:33:01A new leader, Darryl Waltrims.
00:33:04Look at this battle. Here's Petty up in it.
00:33:07Puppy, who's that driving number 96?
00:33:10That's Dale Earnhardt.
00:33:12Look, boy.
00:33:13Here? Charlotte?
00:33:14No, Kannapolis. It's just up the road.
00:33:17Kannapolis is a mill town, you know.
00:33:19Yeah, that whole town makes cannon towels.
00:33:22Call them lint heads.
00:33:24There's no way out of there.
00:33:25The only way out is through racing.
00:33:28Young Mr. Earnhardt here has already logged 17 straight wins on the dirt tracks around here.
00:33:33Richard Petty goes again, and here's 88, Waltrip with him.
00:33:49Turn four. 96, Earnhardt's car.
00:33:52His spot brings out the caution flag.
00:33:55Oh, that's him.
00:33:57The car is moving away, and we could finish this race under caution.
00:34:00Can you believe that?
00:34:02Dang, that man is crazy.
00:34:04Gonna kill somebody.
00:34:06Yeah.
00:34:07Who was that stroker, 96?
00:34:09Drives like a damn moonshiner.
00:34:11No respect for nobody.
00:34:13Come on, Waltrip. He ain't worth the trouble.
00:34:17Hey, Daddy.
00:34:18Hey, Callie-Betty.
00:34:20You did good, Daddy. Did you win?
00:34:23If I won, I'd be over in victory lane, wouldn't I?
00:34:25Thanks for the tickets.
00:34:27You know, I have to go. I'm late.
00:34:31Now, y'all be good, okay?
00:34:34Have fun.
00:34:36I'll see you tomorrow.
00:34:37Make sure that she gets to school on time, okay?
00:34:39Yeah.
00:34:41Bye.
00:34:43Bye.
00:34:45Would you sign this for me, Daryl?
00:34:48I sure appreciate it.
00:34:53Oh, thank you.
00:34:58All right, get in the car, kid.
00:35:01Kelly, where's Dale?
00:35:02I don't know, Daddy.
00:35:05Dale!
00:35:07Junior!
00:35:09Dale!
00:35:10Junior!
00:35:12Junior!
00:35:13Jerry, you see Dale?
00:35:14Nope.
00:35:25Hi.
00:35:28So, are you really from Hickory?
00:35:29Why do you find that so hard to believe?
00:35:31Just listen to this accent.
00:35:33Just the words you use.
00:35:36Kind of threw me.
00:35:38What does your daddy do?
00:35:39Guess.
00:35:41What do you figure?
00:35:44Lawyer.
00:35:46He was a race car driver like my Uncle Tommy.
00:35:49Tommy Houston.
00:35:51Tommy's your uncle?
00:35:52Mm-hmm.
00:35:54I traded paint with him a few times.
00:35:56Pretty rough on the sheet metal, but...
00:35:59a man can drive.
00:36:00So can you.
00:36:01Had me shot today and blew it.
00:36:03You'll get another one.
00:36:07You figure?
00:36:09Why not?
00:36:10NASCAR's gotta have talent.
00:36:11You're magic on the asphalt.
00:36:14Using the draft to get through traffic.
00:36:16Getting on and off the pit road under the green.
00:36:18Accelerating down the chute.
00:36:21You know your road.
00:36:23I bet you can fish and hunt, too.
00:36:25Situation calls for it, why not?
00:36:28I don't mind getting my hands dirty.
00:36:35See that guy?
00:36:37That's the king.
00:36:38That's Richard Petty right there.
00:36:40Hey, Richard.
00:36:45Pretty neat, huh?
00:36:48Excuse me.
00:36:49Mr. Earnhardt?
00:36:50Yeah.
00:36:51Puppy Wheeler wanted me to introduce myself.
00:36:53My name's Rod Osterlin.
00:36:54Hey, Rod, how are you?
00:36:55Well, how are you?
00:36:56Good. Grab a stomp.
00:36:57Yeah? Yeah.
00:36:58Sure.
00:36:59This is Teresa.
00:37:00Hello.
00:37:01My kids, Kelly and Dale Jr.
00:37:02Hi, Teresa.
00:37:03Kids?
00:37:04Listen, I've started a new company.
00:37:06Osterlin Racing.
00:37:07You a sportsman, sir?
00:37:08Nope. Winston Cup.
00:37:12I saw you out there today.
00:37:13Pretty impressive.
00:37:14Thanks.
00:37:15You know, until you spun out.
00:37:17Yeah. Thanks, Rod.
00:37:20Why'd you try to pass on the outside of a turn like that?
00:37:23Well, I saw some daylight, figured I could win.
00:37:25Fair enough.
00:37:27But isn't coming in second better than wrecking?
00:37:30No.
00:37:31Second place is just the first loser.
00:37:38Is that for you?
00:37:41It's nice meeting you, Dale.
00:37:43I'm sorry to interrupt you.
00:37:46Enjoy your dinner.
00:37:47Thank you.
00:37:51What are you doing?
00:37:53That's not Mr. Osterlin.
00:37:54That's Mr. Opportunity.
00:37:55He only knocks once, Dale.
00:37:57Go get him.
00:37:59Growing up around race cars, you know,
00:38:01you start driving before you can even reach the pedals.
00:38:05So I started racing when I was 17
00:38:08and pretty much been driving in my sleep ever since.
00:38:11Yeah?
00:38:12Well, you remind me never to ride with you.
00:38:15Hey, look.
00:38:16You going to drive for me?
00:38:18There's somebody you've got to meet.
00:38:21I may not have the time,
00:38:22but I'm going to take you for a ride.
00:38:25There's somebody you've got to meet.
00:38:27I may not have the experience of the other owners,
00:38:29but I've hired the best people I can find.
00:38:31Like my crew chief.
00:38:32And the man can't read or write,
00:38:34but he's a genius with a race car.
00:38:36Jake!
00:38:38Jake!
00:38:40Hey.
00:38:41I want you to meet Dale Earnhardt.
00:38:43Dale?
00:38:44Jacob.
00:38:46Howdy.
00:38:48You see this thing right here?
00:38:50The upper control arm?
00:38:52That's what we got in this car right here.
00:38:55And it's groaning in the turns.
00:38:57If we get in the corners of Talladega,
00:38:59that thing's going to break.
00:39:01And you see this one right here?
00:39:04That ain't going to break.
00:39:06Different metal.
00:39:09I put that thing in this car right here.
00:39:12Mr. Austin, when he gets me a good enough driver,
00:39:14I'm going to be wearing diamonds.
00:39:17I'm talking about big as horse turds.
00:39:23Well, all right.
00:39:30Jake!
00:39:31That's Walter from Ontario, ain't it?
00:39:33Yeah, that's him.
00:39:34And he ain't Darrell Walter.
00:39:36Now, there's the kid to watch.
00:39:38This kid, Earnhardt, in the Australian number two,
00:39:40the car out of California,
00:39:41the driver from North Carolina.
00:39:43Whoa, it's close.
00:39:44Just touching bonus.
00:39:45Pulls out of the draft and right into the front.
00:39:47Do you like racing Winston Cup, Earnhardt?
00:39:50What?
00:39:51I say, if you do, you better start kicking some tail
00:39:54because Williford's fixing to send you back
00:39:56to the dirt tracks, huh?
00:40:01Still wheelie wheelie.
00:40:02That's right.
00:40:03Let him know you're there, Earnhardt.
00:40:21He's moving into seventh place.
00:40:23Sixth!
00:40:26There you go.
00:40:27Got a lock on fourth place.
00:40:29Bring it home, baby.
00:40:36In Daytona Beach today,
00:40:37NASCAR announced that second generation driver,
00:40:40Dale Earnhardt, has been named rookie of the year.
00:40:52Oh, yeah.
00:40:54Police say we can't drink in a bar.
00:40:57What a shame.
00:40:58Hey, Dale.
00:40:59Hey, good to see you.
00:41:02Great car, Dale.
00:41:03Congratulations.
00:41:04Thanks.
00:41:07What's your name?
00:41:09Hey, Neil.
00:41:10Little girl, what's your name?
00:41:13Okay.
00:41:14Don't worry about it.
00:41:15Don't worry about it.
00:41:16Don't worry about it.
00:41:17Don't worry about it.
00:41:19How's that for a game getter, huh?
00:41:24Look at the carving on that stock.
00:41:28Oh, that's beautiful.
00:41:30Beautiful.
00:41:31Yeah, man.
00:41:32I stare at that in the catalog of the year,
00:41:35just wondering if I ever save enough to get me one.
00:41:40Well, I guess I got to get me one, too, now, Dale.
00:41:49Damn, now I got to get me two of these.
00:41:53Those are yours, Dale, aren't they?
00:41:55Yeah.
00:42:01The Austinville Racing Team, led by Dale Earnhardt,
00:42:04won five races en route to their first championship.
00:42:09Boom!
00:42:18Grim Reaper creeping up on you.
00:42:21You ain't hearing footsteps on me, are you?
00:42:24Just your size 12s.
00:42:26Hey, I'll tell you about losing some sleep.
00:42:29Everything I put together, your life depends on it.
00:42:33You want to know the secret of being a great driver?
00:42:36Hmm?
00:42:38You have flat-out got to believe that it ain't going to happen to you.
00:42:42I don't care how bad that wreck is,
00:42:44you're going to walk away from it because you're so damn tough
00:42:47they couldn't castrate you with a chainsaw.
00:42:50But I'll tell you what else, too, right now.
00:42:53You'd best be willing to pay that price.
00:42:57You know, I bet you within 10 years,
00:42:59NASCAR will get better ratings than baseball.
00:43:02Who knows? Maybe even in five years.
00:43:08You know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get the job done.
00:43:11I have to get back to the gym.
00:43:13You know, I bet you in 10 years,
00:43:15NASCAR will get better ratings than baseball.
00:43:18I don't know, maybe even in five years.
00:43:20You have to get back to the gym.
00:43:22You have to get back to the gym.
00:43:24That's why you got to hold on to your name, Dale.
00:43:33Don't sell it off.
00:43:35Someday it might earn you more than racing.
00:43:37You mean caps and T-shirts?
00:43:40Why not?
00:43:41You won the Winston Cup last year, your second season.
00:43:44Who's ever done that?
00:43:45You know what?
00:43:46What?
00:43:47I don't even need a lawyer.
00:43:49More a business manager.
00:43:50Okay, take it easy there, big fella.
00:43:51You're here to watch your kids, not kiss your girlfriend.
00:43:52Dale, come in here.
00:43:53Good?
00:43:54All right, listen up.
00:43:55I'm going to stand right here on the next lap.
00:43:56I want you to drive between me and this rail.
00:43:57You hear me?
00:43:58You hear me?
00:43:59All right?
00:44:00Go, go, go.
00:44:01Good.
00:44:02All right.
00:44:03Dale, come in here.
00:44:06Good.
00:44:13All right, listen up. I'm gonna stand right here on the next lap.
00:44:16I want you to drive between me and this rail, you hear?
00:44:20You're all right. Let's go.
00:44:34Come on, come on, come on!
00:44:38What's wrong?
00:44:39I'm afraid I'm gonna hit you.
00:44:41You don't worry about me. You just drive.
00:44:44I'll try to teach you something here, Dale. Let's go.
00:44:48It's on.
00:44:56You can't do that.
00:44:57You can't do that.
00:44:58You can't do that.
00:44:59You can't do that.
00:45:00You can't do that.
00:45:02You can't do this, Dale. You're scaring him.
00:45:04I'm trying to teach him something, Teresa.
00:45:06Teach him what?
00:45:07You drive a NASCAR, he drives a go-kart.
00:45:09He's just a little boy. How do you think you're making him feel?
00:45:11I don't know. I just want him to do it right, that's all.
00:45:14He's just a little boy.
00:45:15Doesn't he have time to prove that he's a man?
00:45:24Is this how he taught you?
00:45:26Who?
00:45:28Your daddy.
00:45:31Yeah.
00:45:36Jake?
00:45:37You hear Austin's selling a team to this J.D. Stacey guy?
00:45:40Huh?
00:45:42It's this cowboy who made his money in coal mining machinery, whatever.
00:45:46I'll tell you what, this guy don't know the first thing about racing, man.
00:45:49Well, maybe he can learn.
00:45:52I hear he wants to win his self a Winston Cup.
00:45:55Oh, yeah? Well, too bad.
00:45:56Wanted ain't enough, Jake. You know that.
00:45:59It don't work no more to go like hell hoping first like we used to could.
00:46:02One second gain in them pits is 300 feet on the track. You know that.
00:46:05Hell, man, you're the one who taught me that, damn it!
00:46:17You're leaving, ain't you?
00:46:22Ah, fine. Hell with it. I'm leaving, too, then.
00:46:24I think you ought to stay.
00:46:26Oh, yeah? Why?
00:46:27Huh? You give me one good reason, Jake.
00:46:29What the hell you think they call me, suitcase Jake?
00:46:31Because I can't stand working for people too long.
00:46:34Hell, I can't stand working for you no more.
00:46:38I don't care.
00:46:40I don't care if you are the...
00:46:43best I ever seen.
00:46:50You don't need me, Earnhardt.
00:46:52I'll tell you why right now.
00:46:56Because you're willing to pay the price.
00:46:59Stay with the team.
00:47:02Man, I mean, why the hell would he tell me to stay?
00:47:07I don't know, Dale.
00:47:13What's the matter?
00:47:15You always got an opinion.
00:47:17Yeah.
00:47:19You know, when you called me tonight, I got pretty excited.
00:47:23I hadn't heard from you in a few days.
00:47:25But just now I started wondering
00:47:27if this is all you'll ever want me for.
00:47:30My advice.
00:47:32What?
00:47:33Maybe I'm just here to take care of your kids
00:47:35while you go out hunting with Neil, or...
00:47:37Teresa, that's not the way I feel about you.
00:47:40How do you feel about me?
00:47:44What is this?
00:47:45With you and me, are we...
00:47:48Never mind.
00:47:49Wait, wait, wait, don't, don't.
00:47:51Oh, come on, Dale.
00:47:52You're one of the smartest people I know.
00:47:54Did you ever for a second try to imagine
00:47:57what it's like to love Dale Earnhardt?
00:48:01To know that every pit lizard and every speedway in America
00:48:03wants to spend the night with him,
00:48:05and to wonder how many of them actually do?
00:48:12I don't know.
00:48:14I don't know.
00:48:16You want advice from me,
00:48:18and all I've got is questions.
00:48:20What's gonna happen when you wreck Earnhardt,
00:48:23or when you lose, or even if you win?
00:48:25Every time, what are you left with?
00:48:28Disappointments? Trophies?
00:48:31They're the same thing.
00:48:33They're empty.
00:48:35Unless you've got someone who loves you for what you are,
00:48:38and not for what you've done.
00:48:46You've got new plans, you better get to it.
00:48:49I ain't hanging around anymore.
00:49:05I love you, Mrs. Earnhardt.
00:49:07Yeah?
00:49:09I love you, too.
00:49:12Yeah?
00:49:22You need some advice, Earnhardt.
00:49:26What's that?
00:49:28You're always trying to prove yourself to everybody.
00:49:36You don't have to race for Stacey.
00:49:39You have NASCAR, find you another team.
00:49:43You're Dale Earnhardt.
00:49:58Am I your diamond in the rough?
00:50:01Yeah.
00:50:09You know why I overtold you not to leave Stacey?
00:50:12Because there's a hell of a lot more drivers than there are racing teams.
00:50:16Even somebody as good as you.
00:50:20T, why don't you tell Earnhardt here what we've been tossing around?
00:50:24Well, when Junior told me that you and Stacey would be lucky to last another week,
00:50:29my people at R.J. Reynolds got a little concerned.
00:50:32We tossed it around, and this is what we came up with.
00:50:36Richard here is gonna retire from driving immediately and put you in his car,
00:50:40if you agree to join his team.
00:50:45You gonna give up driving, Richard?
00:50:48That's what it takes to win.
00:50:51Now, here's the deal.
00:50:54You drive for Richard,
00:50:56Junior's gonna provide quality parts for his mechanics.
00:50:59In exchange, you'll bring your sponsorship along.
00:51:02Now, if you agree, you'll be racing with Richard next Sunday.
00:51:06You won't miss a weekend.
00:51:15No disrespect to you, Richard,
00:51:19but Junior, I'd rather have the race for you.
00:51:23I've already got the winning team.
00:51:26I ain't about to go back to stroking.
00:51:29Might as well ask me to start losing.
00:51:31You know what I like about you, Earnhardt?
00:51:33You'll do anything to win,
00:51:35even insult poor old Richard here.
00:51:38Now, you know Darryl Watkins is my driver.
00:51:41You really think you boys could be in the same family?
00:51:45Kane and Abel were in the same family, weren't they?
00:51:48Hey, see? That's what I'm talking about right there.
00:51:53Can I have a minute with you, Darryl?
00:51:57Excuse me, fellas.
00:52:02I hear you came up hard.
00:52:06Mm-hmm.
00:52:08So did I.
00:52:10My daddy died when I was 5.
00:52:12Instead of going to school,
00:52:14I was out delivering moonshine
00:52:16to the drink houses in the black neighborhood.
00:52:19I quit that when I saw a guy get splattered up against a wall
00:52:22by a shotgun blast.
00:52:25But the one good thing in my life
00:52:27was bowling in Gray Stadium.
00:52:29God, the racing I saw.
00:52:32Curtis Turner and Lee Petty and Junior Johnson
00:52:36and your daddy, too, Ralph Earnhardt.
00:52:38There wasn't anything else in this world
00:52:41I wanted to do but drive a race car.
00:52:43And I did, too.
00:52:45284 races without a win.
00:52:48Look, there were better drivers, Dale.
00:52:51But nobody, I mean, nobody was a better hustler.
00:52:54Where it all got me was right here with you,
00:52:56with a chance to do what I know,
00:52:58and I mean I know I will do best,
00:53:00and that's run a team.
00:53:02Look, here's my idea.
00:53:04We're gonna build an unbreakable car
00:53:07and put a fearless driver in it.
00:53:09I'm talking about a bulldozer that won't break.
00:53:12A car you can bang up all you want,
00:53:14and it just won't quit.
00:53:16Now, nobody's ever done that before, Dale.
00:53:19And for that, well, I'm...
00:53:21I'm willing to give up the thing I love doing most.
00:53:34I'll tell you what, Richard.
00:53:40Let's go out and kick Walter's ass.
00:53:42Well, let's go kick all their asses.
00:53:46And you just try to keep yourself in one piece, okay, Earnhardt?
00:54:02The whole press thing? I just told him.
00:54:04They don't write what you want about Earnhardt.
00:54:06He can't read that stuff.
00:54:08Oh, boy, now, boy, now.
00:54:10Don't let that little son of a bitch get you out of your game.
00:54:15Listen to me.
00:54:16You can badmouth my driving all you want,
00:54:18but it ain't right you telling the press me and my boys are stupid.
00:54:21You hear?
00:54:22And what ain't right?
00:54:23That I'm saying it or that you're stupid?
00:54:26Look, do you want me to lay off, Earnhardt?
00:54:28Like you've been laying off,
00:54:29trying to knock me into the wall every chance you get?
00:54:31Hey, man, that's racing. That's different.
00:54:33Really?
00:54:34Yeah, so talking to the press is all wrong,
00:54:36but trying to run a guy over, that's okay.
00:54:38Talking to the press is just part of the game.
00:54:40Hell, if you'd like, some of my boys here
00:54:42could go down there and help you put some sentences together.
00:54:52Good luck today, Daryl.
00:55:01Let's go back where the leader is now,
00:55:03as cars number 3 and 11 go down the main straightaway
00:55:05into turn number 1 with 386 laps now complete.
00:55:13Good time to look at the history book here in Richmond.
00:55:15Dale Earnhardt won this race a year ago.
00:55:17Daryl Waltrip won the fall race.
00:55:19Be patient, Daryl.
00:55:43Gonna wait. Didn't pass Earnhardt going into 3.
00:55:46Don't you start to pass him into 3.
00:55:49The minute you think you're getting clear, he'll turn you.
00:55:51There's no sling shot it. There's no draft.
00:55:54It's muscle. Nothing but muscle.
00:55:56Horsepower, handling, tires, the driver.
00:55:59Waltrip keeps him straight.
00:56:01Down to the inside.
00:56:05Side by side.
00:56:07Down to the inside.
00:56:09Down to the inside.
00:56:11Oh!
00:56:15Oh, no!
00:56:19Who's going to win the race? Where's Kyle?
00:56:21Dale, you okay?
00:56:23Kyle Petty's going to win the race.
00:56:25Dale, go ahead.
00:56:27Kyle Petty's slowed down. He's going slow.
00:56:30It's bad enough when you wreck somebody on purpose.
00:56:33When you try to hurt him...
00:56:35Hurt him hell, so he's trying to kill you.
00:56:38What are you saying, Junior,
00:56:40that Earnhardt intentionally tried to hurt Dale?
00:56:42Before you get that damn thing out of my face, I'm done talking.
00:56:45I didn't mean to wreck him.
00:56:47Just meant to rattle his cage a little.
00:56:51Hell of a show, though, wasn't it?
00:56:59You ready?
00:57:01I don't want to go, Daddy.
00:57:03God, Dale, military school.
00:57:05Come on, Theresa. He's going.
00:57:07It's great to go on up. I almost got a B in math.
00:57:10You almost got a B?
00:57:12Almost is for losers, Dale.
00:57:14That ain't good enough for an Earnhardt.
00:57:16Dale, he just hit a rough patch. We'll get him through it.
00:57:19You know what Waltrip said to me the other day? Huh?
00:57:22He told all the reporters that they could write whatever they wanted
00:57:25about me and my buddies because we couldn't read anyway.
00:57:28Ain't nobody ever going to talk to my son that way.
00:57:30Now, you get in the car.
00:57:35Come on.
00:57:41The winner of the 1986 and 1987 Winston Cup,
00:57:46the Intimidator, Mr. Dale Earnhardt.
00:58:06Thank you.
00:58:08On behalf of Richard Childress
00:58:10and all our friends at NASCAR,
00:58:14just the greatest crew in racing that I've ever been involved of,
00:58:19we'd like to recognize our new sponsors,
00:58:21GM Goodwrench.
00:58:26I'm going to race the 1988 Winston Cup Series
00:58:28with the fire of my rookie year.
00:58:30And who knows?
00:58:31Maybe even win Daytona 500 one of these days.
00:58:35Thank you.
00:59:06Well, you aced it, Dale.
00:59:08Sounded a little bit like Johnny Cash.
00:59:13You OK, buddy?
00:59:15Yeah, I'm fine. Just, uh...
00:59:20Man, I swear, I saw myself standing in the crowd today.
00:59:26You what?
00:59:28I think I saw my son Cary. He's my oldest.
00:59:32I haven't seen him since he was five, so...
00:59:37I'm sitting here wondering
00:59:40what's going through his mind right now, you know?
00:59:45Well, there's only one way to find out.
00:59:48You've got to see it.
00:59:50He's all grown up now.
00:59:56What'd I say to him?
00:59:58I don't know.
01:00:00But I tell you what, I wouldn't wait too long.
01:00:03We ain't going to live forever,
01:00:05especially the way you've been driving.
01:00:07Oh, man. Look who's talking.
01:00:09Hey, I'm not the one with the big fat NASCAR fine.
01:00:12Listen, you need to quit picking on Darryl.
01:00:15I wasn't trying to kill Waltrip.
01:00:19Now, if a guy can't take it on a racetrack,
01:00:21he'd best tie a kerosene rag around his ankle
01:00:24so the ants won't crawl up and eat his candy ass.
01:00:27If I got to drive over the fool in front of me, man, to win?
01:00:30Shoot, that's just racing.
01:00:34Darryl.
01:00:37Listen.
01:00:39You keep up like this,
01:00:41there's going to come a Sunday
01:00:44when there won't be enough wreckers
01:00:46to pick up the pieces of your car.
01:00:53I'll tell you what.
01:00:55I ain't going to your funeral.
01:00:57I wouldn't get caught dead at yours, neither.
01:00:59Fine.
01:01:03No matter, anyway.
01:01:05When I die, I'm going to be all used up.
01:01:08There'll be nothing left to bury.
01:01:26Junior, you got it working again, huh?
01:01:29What was wrong with it?
01:01:31Spark plug.
01:01:33You missed a spot, Dale.
01:01:42What's wrong with your big brother, huh, Taylor?
01:01:47Stubborn as dead.
01:01:56Mr. Earnhardt?
01:01:59My name's Cary, sir.
01:02:03Yeah, I know.
01:02:05Yeah.
01:02:07I had a job at Pizza Hut when I was only 13.
01:02:10Been a mechanic.
01:02:12Even worked textiles at Fieldcrest Cannon.
01:02:15Yeah.
01:02:17Yeah.
01:02:19Yeah.
01:02:21Yeah.
01:02:23Even worked textiles at Fieldcrest Cannon.
01:02:25You worked at the mill?
01:02:27Yes, sir.
01:02:29Sir.
01:02:31What should I call you?
01:02:37Whatever you like, I guess.
01:02:41How's your mama doing?
01:02:43She's doing fine.
01:02:45And Jack?
01:02:47He's doing good.
01:02:49He works pretty hard.
01:02:51He still finds time to fish and hunt.
01:02:54He wants to take me to Montana next year.
01:02:57Go after some elk.
01:02:59We've been saving up for that.
01:03:02You know, Cary, uh...
01:03:05Jack's a good man.
01:03:10And I wouldn't be much of a man myself
01:03:12if I pretended to be your daddy...
01:03:15after everything he's done for you.
01:03:19But I'm really glad you came here, son.
01:03:33How'd it do?
01:03:35Pretty good.
01:03:37Beat Kelly by a little bit.
01:03:39Of course, she's a girl.
01:03:41Hey, thanks a lot, Daddy.
01:03:43Just trying to toughen you up, Cary.
01:03:45Good job out there.
01:03:49Well, I guess we're done for the day.
01:03:52What about me?
01:03:54What about you?
01:04:13Better wipe that look off your face, Dale.
01:04:16You wind up as ugly as me.
01:04:46Oh, my God.
01:05:17Hey!
01:05:26Yeah!
01:05:28Pretty good.
01:05:30Ha-ha!
01:05:33Ha-ha-ha-ha!
01:05:35Ha, Dale, you did great.
01:05:37You ran 17.35.
01:05:39How'd I do?
01:05:41Don't trade in your weed whacker just yet.
01:05:45Didn't you hear me, Junior?
01:05:4717.35.
01:05:49You're footin' with a track record your first time out.
01:05:52Yeah, I know.
01:05:54You're a good kid.
01:05:56You're a good kid.
01:05:58You're a good kid.
01:06:00That's a track record your first time out.
01:06:03Track record?
01:06:05Yep. An empty track record.
01:06:14Maggie Allison to Blackboard with a...
01:06:16Oh!
01:06:17...white car.
01:06:19Ooh...they get...they get loose.
01:06:22He's trying to get a lap back.
01:06:24Meanwhile, Earnhardt behind him,
01:06:26watchin' all this stuff.
01:06:28Greg Walters, don't worry about him, you got a bot in your way.
01:06:47Looks like Leonard Arden and Richard Childress now has moved out to the radio tower.
01:06:53Look at Dale Earnhardt from a shot out back of the Ernie Urban car.
01:06:59You know they have t-shirts with his picture on it that says intimidate.
01:07:03And they're right, because that's all he's doing is trying to intimidate Ernie Urban.
01:07:10See ya! There he goes, Earnhardt has second.
01:07:23Uh-oh, he's loose again and taking trouble with him.
01:07:43You see Bonin?
01:07:44Earnhardt got through unscathed I believe.
01:07:46Is he okay?
01:07:47Is he okay? Hey, you spotted okay!
01:08:00Anything new on Bonin?
01:08:01Nope.
01:08:03Sorry.
01:08:04Nothing to be sorry about.
01:08:07The game he chose, he knew it could happen.
01:08:10You think he'll race again?
01:08:11Doctors say he won't.
01:08:14If you know Neil, ain't no doctor gonna keep him out of a race car.
01:08:21Kinda like your granddaddy used to say, can't put it in you, can't take it out.
01:08:28Hell, even if they could, all you do is retire, eat well, stay fit,
01:08:34then get hit by a bus and die anyway.
01:08:43Dad.
01:08:44What?
01:08:46I wanna race too, I always have.
01:08:48Dale, you're gonna finish high school first.
01:08:52I'm not good in school.
01:08:54It's not because I don't like it.
01:08:55You know, if I had my choice, there'd be no question about it, I'd race.
01:08:59I quit school, your brother Kerry quit school, we wound up in the mill.
01:09:04If you leave school, Dale, you can forget about racing, you understand me?
01:09:09What, are you afraid I'm gonna be better than you?
01:09:11Alright, let's get a couple things straight between us.
01:09:16First of all, ain't nobody better than me.
01:09:21And second, racing ain't the only thing in life, son.
01:09:25Racing's not the only thing in life.
01:09:28You go empty out that truck.
01:09:31I'm gonna take the rest of the day off, you hear me?
01:09:42You know the first thing I remember when I come out of that coma?
01:09:46What's that?
01:09:47That 11-pointer you shot up there in Montana.
01:09:50Just too pretty to give to you.
01:09:54Well, you look good, Neal.
01:09:56Oh, hell yeah, I feel fine.
01:09:59Got any more of them dizzy spells?
01:10:01No.
01:10:02Well, I'm gonna have to give it to you.
01:10:04I'm gonna have to give it to you.
01:10:06I'm gonna have to give it to you.
01:10:09Got any more of them dizzy spells?
01:10:12Ah, it's been months since I had the last one.
01:10:16Hey, man, how do you like being a TV guy?
01:10:18It's great, being Mr. Has-Been Celebrity.
01:10:22Oh, come on, man. At least you're alive.
01:10:25That's right, I am alive.
01:10:29I'd like to get back to doing what I always did.
01:10:33But my doctor says no.
01:10:35My wife says no.
01:10:37My friends say no.
01:10:39I mean, hell, I'm 44 years old, right?
01:10:41I'm too old to race.
01:10:44Son of a bitch!
01:10:47What the hell's wrong with me?
01:10:49I don't know, but at least you got your temper back.
01:10:54Look, if you were in my situation...
01:10:58...what would you do?
01:11:00No question about it.
01:11:02No question about it.
01:11:12Welcome to Speed Weeks 1994
01:11:14in practice for tomorrow's run
01:11:16for the pole position for next week's Daytona 500.
01:11:19There are several new driver-team combinations this year,
01:11:22including Neil Bonnet, who will be up next,
01:11:24driving the number 51 Country Time Lumina.
01:11:27You stand there right beside me.
01:11:29Everybody's going nuts.
01:11:31Champagne spraying everywhere over Victory Lane.
01:11:34And then I wake up and realize
01:11:36I ain't never won Daytona 500.
01:11:38I ain't gone to Disney World neither.
01:11:41Oh, baby. Maybe it won't be a dream this year.
01:11:45Yeah, 16 times a charm, right?
01:11:48Well, you won the Winston Cup six times.
01:11:50You could tie Petty's record this year.
01:11:52Ma'am.
01:11:55Hey, Dale.
01:11:57Hey.
01:12:05What's wrong?
01:12:09Neil's practice run, he, uh...
01:12:13He spun out and crashed.
01:12:21Dad, um...
01:12:23Dad, he's dead.
01:12:26Oh, my God.
01:12:31Oh, baby.
01:12:34Oh, baby.
01:12:38Oh, baby, I'm sorry.
01:12:54Dad?
01:13:01Want to go back to the hotel?
01:13:03No.
01:13:07Wouldn't sleep tonight anyway.
01:13:13I'm scared, Dale.
01:13:16You may be the greatest driver who ever lived.
01:13:19You won more money than anybody.
01:13:22You could walk away right now.
01:13:25Say whatever you want.
01:13:27Nobody would ever think less of you.
01:13:53Take one last look
01:13:56Before you leave
01:14:00Cause, oh, somehow
01:14:03It means so much to me
01:14:08And if you ever need me
01:14:11You know where I'll be
01:14:13So please call home
01:14:16If you change your mind
01:14:22Oh, I don't mind
01:14:31I guess I saw it coming
01:14:35Day by day
01:14:39But, oh, I could not stand the failure
01:14:46Before you leave
01:14:48There's just one thing I must say
01:14:51Please call home
01:14:54If you change your mind
01:15:00Oh, I don't mind
01:15:05She ain't just yours.
01:15:07There's Kelly and Carrie's, too.
01:15:10You're racing on the short track.
01:15:12You're responsible for the upkeep.
01:15:15Thanks, Dad.
01:15:22You know, I really love it out there on the track.
01:15:27Yeah, I know.
01:15:40When I reach over and click up that toggle...
01:15:45It's the only place in the world
01:15:48Where I can have a day where everything goes my way.
01:15:55Well, is it fast?
01:15:58The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, Dale.
01:16:01It's the one who refuses to lose.
01:16:08You know what you got?
01:16:11Ain't something you can learn.
01:16:13The only way they can take it from you
01:16:15Is if you let them scare you.
01:16:20Don't you be thinking about Neil
01:16:22When you're out there on that track, you hear?
01:16:26He should jump up and bite you.
01:16:44Damn it, Dale.
01:16:47You be careful.
01:17:02And keep your eye just below him at Dale Earnhardt.
01:17:05He's moving up right now.
01:17:06You see the two of them side by side.
01:17:08Earnhardt gets the spot.
01:17:09He moves in front of Michael Holmstrom
01:17:11As they head down the back straightaway.
01:17:25How's it going out there, Hoff?
01:17:27Good, good. I'm a lucky penny. Let's do it to it.
01:17:29Where you going? I need it.
01:17:31Remember, this ain't the Daytona 499.
01:17:33Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.
01:17:35Why don't you get out there on the last lap with the broom
01:17:37And flip a little.
01:17:39Maybe I won't tear another tire down.
01:17:41That black number 30 car
01:17:43Edging past Earnhardt
01:17:45Trying to move up in line and secure third spot
01:17:47And Earnhardt will have none of it.
01:17:53You keep doing that thing you're doing, my man.
01:17:55I'll keep my broom handy.
01:17:5719 years of waiting, Richard.
01:17:59What do you figure I'm going to say to my old friend,
01:18:01Walter, when we're coming to Old Dawgs?
01:18:03And he says to me,
01:18:05You got this, Earnhardt, but you ain't never won the 500.
01:18:07Woo-hoo!
01:18:09Can Sterling just move over?
01:18:13Earnhardt knows how to work the draft
01:18:15Off another car
01:18:17As good as anyone else, and better than most.
01:18:23Yeah, you're hitting your marks, Dale.
01:18:25Better than most.
01:18:29You're doing it, champ.
01:18:31It's your year, baby!
01:18:35Good luck.
01:18:37Had trouble at the backstretch.
01:18:39One car, two cars
01:18:41Were sliding down the backstretch.
01:18:43Okay, yellow.
01:18:45Yellow, yellow.
01:18:47Good now, bud.
01:19:05Go!
01:19:23You came in first, and we got you out first.
01:19:25Go, boy, go!
01:19:27Good job, fellas.
01:19:29Go on, go on.
01:19:31Seven laps to go.
01:19:33Gets the bumper of Earnhardt again.
01:19:37Gordon fighting on the outside.
01:19:39If he gets up under...
01:19:41Look at this.
01:19:43Dogfight off turn two as they go down this long
01:19:45Back straightaway.
01:19:47Wallace on the inside.
01:19:49Labonte way up on the outside.
01:19:51Somebody got shot out of the middle
01:19:53Like a hot dog flying out of the bun.
01:19:57Turn two.
01:19:59It might be this.
01:20:01The yellow together.
01:20:05Earnhardt uses the left car
01:20:07As a pick.
01:20:0920 years of trying.
01:20:1120 years of frustration.
01:20:13Dale Earnhardt will come to the caution flag
01:20:15To win the daytona 500.
01:20:23Dale Earnhardt
01:20:25Finally is a champion
01:20:27Of the daytona 500.
01:20:31The anticipated moment in racing.
01:20:33If John Elway can win the super bowl,
01:20:35Dale Earnhardt said he could win
01:20:37The daytona 500.
01:20:41Dale Earnhardt is doing everything
01:20:43He had to do to win.
01:20:45The second generation driver
01:20:47And seven-time national champion.
01:20:49Gonna have to run a red light
01:20:51Gonna have to run a red light
01:20:57Gonna have to run a red light
01:20:59Gonna have to run a red light
01:21:01Gonna have to run a red light
01:21:05Tire me with my carolina
01:21:07You know the girl can be a bone
01:21:09You know the girl can be a bone
01:21:11He just won the daytona 500
01:21:13He just won the daytona 500
01:21:15And with my carolina
01:21:17And with my carolina
01:21:19And with my carolina
01:21:29You okay, baby?
01:21:30Yeah, this is...
01:21:31Old Todd Digger, World War I.
01:21:32Last week in Rockingham didn't help either.
01:21:33Shit.
01:21:34Shit.
01:21:35Shit.
01:21:36Shit.
01:21:37Shit.
01:21:39New York, New York, New York, New York.
01:21:46Old Todd Digger, World War I.
01:21:50Yeah.
01:21:51The last week in Rockingham didn't help either.
01:21:57Shit.
01:21:58Shit.
01:21:59Shit.
01:22:00Shit.
01:22:01Shit.
01:22:02Shit.
01:22:03Shit.
01:22:04Shit.
01:22:05Shit.
01:22:06You gonna blow your speakers out with that crap, Dale?
01:22:07I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know,
01:22:10I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
01:22:13Leave it on.
01:22:14It's your place.
01:22:15Sorry, I ain't got no hillbilly rock.
01:22:19You want something?
01:22:20Beer?
01:22:21Sure.
01:22:27Still hurting?
01:22:29I'm fine.
01:22:38It's a way out, so they...
01:22:42Teresa's getting on me about quitting racing again.
01:22:48She figures I've done it all.
01:22:53Hell, I guess I shouldn't have won Daytona 500.
01:23:00Well...
01:23:03You've had a few wrecks in your time, you know.
01:23:05A few.
01:23:08Any of them scare you?
01:23:10I reckon Talladega's the worst.
01:23:17Listen, Dale...
01:23:20Why don't you start using that new safety harness, you hear?
01:23:26Funny, when your granddaddy started racing,
01:23:29he didn't use nothing but a flimsy football helmet.
01:23:33Did he wreck a lot?
01:23:35No, he didn't.
01:23:36It wasn't because he was scared of it.
01:23:38He wasn't scared of nothing.
01:23:42He just couldn't afford to wreck.
01:23:46Yeah, I wish I'd known him.
01:23:50He liked you, Dale.
01:23:56You drive a lot like he did.
01:23:59You're something else.
01:24:01I reckon...
01:24:04I learned pretty much everything I know about racing from you.
01:24:12What?
01:24:16He just wasn't a simple man, your granddaddy.
01:24:23He was.
01:24:24Your granddaddy.
01:24:31Spent half my time trying to figure out what he was thinking.
01:24:34The rest of the time, I was too scared to ask him.
01:24:39Was he a good man?
01:24:42Yeah, he was a good man.
01:24:48What are you looking at me like that for?
01:24:51I don't know, I just...
01:24:53You know me, it's just you being scared of him or of anybody.
01:25:03Maybe that's something you know about, huh?
01:25:07Being scared of your daddy.
01:25:13Look, Dale, I...
01:25:17I ain't never meant to scare you, son.
01:25:20There, Dad.
01:25:22I ain't scared of you anyway.
01:25:28What about racing?
01:25:30I'll do what Trace wants.
01:25:32Well, there's a couple of ways of looking at that.
01:25:37A couple more inches of talladega, I'd be dead, right?
01:25:41Or...
01:25:43If I can survive that, I can survive anything.
01:25:46There you go.
01:25:50I love you.
01:25:56Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2001 Daytona 500!
01:26:20Don't beat your ass out there.
01:26:22Bring it on.
01:26:37Love you.
01:26:38I love you.
01:26:41See you soon.
01:26:49See you soon.
01:26:51See you soon.
01:26:53See you soon.
01:26:55See you soon.
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