re: Earnhardt Senior Passing...Do You Still Remember? What were you doing at the time?

Was watching race. Didn't think much of it til later. So much was happening at once.

I was watching as at the time NASCAR was appointment TV. It was FOX’s first race broadcast. I remember pre race a taped segment where Bradshaw did a ride along with Earnhardt. I also remember during a caution period, FOX captured Earnhardt flipping off rookie Kurt Busch, then showing the reaction of Earnhardt’s pit crew laughing their arse off over it.

2 hours later, it all went wrong. Like many, I didn’t think the crash looked real bad. But then DW saying “those are the kind of wrecks that hurt you” gave me an uneasy feeling.

Then Jeannie Zelasko interviewed Ken Schrader. When that interview was done, I had a terrible feeling of the outcome.

I was 12 and 1/2 when he died. I believe I was on vacation with my family in Tennessee when I heard the news. Will always be a very tragic ending for one of the best drivers to ever do it.

I got done riding my dirtbike and watched the last 50 laps. Saw the wreck, didn’t think it was that bad of a wreck. Went outside for about an hour, came back in and saw it announced during the halftime of an NBA game that he died. I remember thinking and feeling like it wasn’t real. The next week at school it’s all anybody talked about.

Was watching the race live, having just said I hoped someone would put him in the wall 5 laps prior.

Laying on my couch after church. My ex wife made her famous croissant wraps. I’d just woken up from my 100 lap naps just in time to catch the last 5-10 laps. I remember it well.