Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s Gravesite

Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s Gravesite
Mooresville, North Carolina (NC), US
The gravesite of Dale Earnhardt Sr. is located on private property in Mooresville, North Carolina. The land where the site sits is owned by Dale Earnhardt Inc.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. was a famous NASCAR driver who was known for his fearless racing style and no-holds-barred attitude. He was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina and in his time with NASCAR, he would go on to win over 76 races. He drove a black #3 Chevrolet Sedan and won 7 Winston Cup Championships. He made his first Winston Cup circuit debut in 1975 and won his first race in 1978, making him the fourth rookie in NASCAR history to win a race. He won the Daytona 500 in 1998. That would be the race in which he would die three years later. On February 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt Sr. was in a crash during the last lap and passed away from blunt force trauma to his head. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 5:16pm. Funeral services were held 4 days later on February 22. The event was a small affair for just his immediate family and friends. The widespread media attention of his death lead way to reformed safety measures for NASCAR including the mandating of head and neck restraints, new inspection rules for seal belts and safer barriers around oval tracks. No one has died in a NASCAR competition since Dale’s death.

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The gravesite of Dale Sr. is located on the Earnhardt property. The estate has a two story home where Dale Sr. lived with his third wife Teresa and his four children (Kerry, Kelly, Dale Jr. and Taylor). The house sits on 900 acres and includes a 108,000 square foot garage nicknamed Garage Mahal. The site of Dale’s grave is in a large fenced area with evergreen trees lining the inside perimeter. There is a gated entry and a walkway to the monument.

It is said that Dale Earnhardt Sr. is worth 70 Million Dollars. In the late 1990s, his annual income was 24.5M and in 2000, he was ranked #40 of the 100 wealthiest celebrities in Forbes magazine. Before his death, he owned a helicopter, Leer Jet, multiple ATVs and kept a fully staffed yacht in Florida.
The gravesite of Dale Earnhardt Sr. is located on private property in Mooresville, North Carolina. The land where the site sits is owned by Dale Earnhardt Inc.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. was a famous NASCAR driver who was known for his fearless racing style and no-holds-barred attitude. He was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina and in his time with NASCAR, he would go on to win over 76 races. He drove a black #3 Chevrolet Sedan and won 7 Winston Cup Championships. He made his first Winston Cup circuit debut in 1975 and won his first race in 1978, making him the fourth rookie in NASCAR history to win a race. He won the Daytona 500 in 1998. That would be the race in which he would die three years later. On February 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt Sr. was in a crash during the last lap and passed away from blunt force trauma to his head. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 5:16pm. Funeral services were held 4 days later on February 22. The event was a small affair for just his immediate family and friends. The widespread media attention of his death lead way to reformed safety measures for NASCAR including the mandating of head and neck restraints, new inspection rules for seal belts and safer barriers around oval tracks. No one has died in a NASCAR competition since Dale’s death.

The gravesite of Dale Sr. is located on the Earnhardt property. The estate has a two story home where Dale Sr. lived with his third wife Teresa and his four children (Kerry, Kelly, Dale Jr. and Taylor). The house sits on 900 acres and includes a 108,000 square foot garage nicknamed Garage Mahal. The site of Dale’s grave is in a large fenced area with evergreen trees lining the inside perimeter. There is a gated entry and a walkway to the monument.

It is said that Dale Earnhardt Sr. is worth 70 Million Dollars. In the late 1990s, his annual income was 24.5M and in 2000, he was ranked #40 of the 100 wealthiest celebrities in Forbes magazine. Before his death, he owned a helicopter, Leer Jet, multiple ATVs and kept a fully staffed yacht in Florida.
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@ 2016-12-11 16:11:13
Ummm if you will check you will see that Earnhardt won his first race in 1979 on his way to rookie of the year in 1979. In 1980 he won his first championship.
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@ 2024-01-25 22:31:08
I met Dale in Bristol at the Applebee's my ex wife was the bar tender there at the time and I'd always come eat dinner with her on the nights she worked, I saw him sitting with a small group of his team and friends and like a mad man I wasn't afraid to introduce myself to him cause he had been my hero since I was a kid and I told him that well unlike most people with his kind of fame I expected to have him tell me off or shrug me off but that didn't happen he invited me to join his group and paid for a round of drinks and invited me to raise her a glass with him and we talked and hung out like long time pals for about 30 minutes then he had to go but instead of blowing me off which at that point I truly expected him to do he invited me and my wife to come back to his bus the next day and join him and his crew for supper so we sent and had a some of the best steaks we ever had at his bus and watched his race playback on the TV that was outside in the belly of his million dollar bus we ate and had a good Ole time spending time with one of the greatest if not the greatest race car ever driver who ever lived I wasn't watching the day Dale hit the wall at Daytona but I never watched a race after that cause Dale was Nascar for me his spirit is what made Nascar what it was and without him it's just an empty shell of what it once was the only way to get that back would be to change everything about it again and bring something totally new that we've never seen and bring someone with the same kind of drive to win to be the best that dale had then maybe we can believe in it again... He is forever in our hearts and I'm sure he's breaking records and tearing up the track wherever he's at....

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