Dale Earnhardt was the career victories leader at Daytona. His 34th career victory
 came in the 2000 opening round of the True Value International Race of Champions.

     He made 676 starts in his Winston Cup career, which began in 1975. He was the 1975 
Winston Cup Rookie of the Year and won his first championship the next season.  He is 
sixth on the career Winston Cup victories list with 76 and was ona path to break Terry 
Labonte's current consecutive starts record of 655.  Earnhardt's final start was his 649th 
straight. 

     Earnhardt is motorsports' leading all-time money winner with $41,639,662 in his career.
 He had also fashioned a multi-million-dollar business and souvenir empire.

     Included among Earnhardt's survivors are wife Teresa, daughters Kelley King and 
Taylor, sons Kerry and Dale Jr., his mother and other siblings.