NASCAR: Timeline

1950   Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR ra

1984   Richard Petty wins his 200th career NASCAR victory at the Firecracker 400 in Daytona, Florida Florida

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2001   NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Dale Earnhardt

Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his career driving stock cars... 

 is killed instantly in a crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500 Daytona 500

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 while blocking for his DEI cars driven by his son, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Michael Waltrip, who won the ra