Video: 'The Day: Remembering Dale Earnhardt'

(Sunday, February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was pronounced dead at 5:16 p.m. EST) — Stock car racing’s greatest current star and one of its most popular and celebrated figures, Dale Earnhardt Sr., crashed and was killed today after he made a characteristically bold lunge for better position on the last turn of the last lap of the sport’s premier event, the Daytona 500, in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was 49.