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re: Earnhardt Senior Passing...Do You Still Remember? What were you doing at the time?
Posted on 3/28/24 at 1:25 pm to 98eagle
Posted on 3/28/24 at 1:25 pm to 98eagle
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It's a shame they didn't invent the HANS device before that race or he would have survived that crash.
but they had...He just didnt want to use it because of the head restrictions.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 1:57 pm to Wildcat98USA
I think if he’d have just been seriously injured in that crash and came back he’d have worn the HANS. He was old school, tough and brave. He was not stupid.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 3:17 pm to Torbemsti80
Was watching race. Didn't think much of it til later. So much was happening at once.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 3:19 pm to Torbemsti80
It’s amazing to me that people are NASCAR fans outside of going to the actual races to have fun.
Being a NASCAR fan is like a beacon to proof you are a trashy person
Being a NASCAR fan is like a beacon to proof you are a trashy person
Posted on 3/28/24 at 3:33 pm to roobedoo
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Gnash, I was at Ticketstock same day.
That’s awesome, small world
Posted on 3/28/24 at 5:49 pm to Torbemsti80
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.
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.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 6:04 pm to Torbemsti80
It watched the race and then had to leave for work once it was over. I didn’t think anything about it since he’d been in wrecks that looked much worse. My dad paged me a few times and the last one he put 911. We were both huge Sr fans . It was unreal to think the man I’d grown up watching race was gone . It’s hard to believe it’s been 23 years . A lot has changed since then .
Posted on 3/28/24 at 6:08 pm to poncho villa
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he only hit the wall going about 30 mph
Add about 125-130 mph to that.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 6:16 pm to pdubya76
i was watching it live...... still hard to believe he died that day.....
Posted on 3/28/24 at 6:56 pm to Torbemsti80
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.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 7:00 pm to Torbemsti80
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.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 7:01 pm to Tiger1242
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It’s amazing to me that people are NASCAR fans outside of going to the actual races to have fun.
Being a NASCAR fan is like a beacon to proof you are a trashy person
Posted on 3/28/24 at 7:05 pm to tWildcat
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I never want to know what Ken Schrader saw when he looked into that car.
He was basically internally decapitated IIRC, so that had to be a gruesome scene
Posted on 3/28/24 at 7:09 pm to VADawg
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He was basically internally decapitated IIRC
Correct. Basal skull fracture.
From what I've read, Kenny(Schrader) saw pints of blood, brain fluid and every bodily fluid imaginable in the cockpit. Just gruesome and he will take it to his grave. Junior and Kelley have never pressed him on it out of sheer respect.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:06 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Basal skull fracture at its worst is pretty much instant exsanguination because of all the veins and arteries in that area. He was dead before that car stopped moving, probably and thankfully never knew what hit him.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 10:16 pm to InkStainedWretch
He was dead the moment his car hit the wall.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 1:46 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
I remember after the race was over I turned it off and went to dinner. Came back and the press conference was on. I couldn't believe it.
He should have walked away from that crash. He died because he fricked with his seatbelt.
And then fatass Helton and NASCAR had the nerve to blame Bill Simpson and almost ruin the life's work of one of the pioneers of racing safety because their golden goose was dead.
He sued and they settled out of court, but NASCAR never apologized for the smear job. fricking shameful.
He should have walked away from that crash. He died because he fricked with his seatbelt.
And then fatass Helton and NASCAR had the nerve to blame Bill Simpson and almost ruin the life's work of one of the pioneers of racing safety because their golden goose was dead.
He sued and they settled out of court, but NASCAR never apologized for the smear job. fricking shameful.
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 3/30/24 at 3:44 pm to Torbemsti80
I was at work delivering pizzas. I had made all my deliveries and was sitting in the parking lot listening to the end of the race before going back in.
Feels like Nascar has died since then, though many of their problems are of their own making and precede his death.
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feel like Nascar officially died that day, and was never the same
Feels like Nascar has died since then, though many of their problems are of their own making and precede his death.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 5:42 pm to Torbemsti80
Was watching the race live, having just said I hoped someone would put him in the wall 5 laps prior.
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