Dale Earnhardt's Career Achievments

Year	Car Owner	Races	Won	Poles	Money Earned	End of Season Points
1975
Dale's first Winston Cup Start was the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte	Ed Negre	1	0	0	$1,925	N/A
1976
	W. Billard Johnny Ray	1 1	0 0	0 0	$1,725 $1,360	N/A
1977
	Henley Gray	1	0	0	$1,375	N/A
1978
	W.Cronkite R.Osterland	4 1	0 0	0 0	$13,245 $6,900	N/A
1979
Winston Cup Rookie of the Year 1st win-16th career start in April, the Southeastern 500 at Bristol. 1st pole-24th career start in June, the NAPA 400 at Riverside	R.Osterlund	27	1	4	$264,086	7th
1980
1st Winston Cup Championship NMPA Driver of the Year First driver in history to win Rookie of the Year honors and the Winston Cup Championship in successive seasons	R.Osterlund	31	5	0	$588,926	1st
1981
July 7, 1981 Earnhardt signed to drive for Childress Dale finished the season without a victory	R.Osterlund Jim Stacy R.Childress	16 4 11	0 0 0	0 0 0	$220,085 $34,300 $92,728	7th
1982
	Bud Moore	30	1	1	$375,325	12th
1983
	Bud Moore	30	2	0	$446,272	8th
1984
Earnhardt returns to drive for Childress	R.Childress	30	2	0	$616,788	4th
1985
	R.Childress	28	4	1	$546,596	8th
1986
2nd Winston Cup Championship NMPA Driver of the Year, shared with Tim Richmond	R.Childress	29	5	1	$1,783,880	1st
1987
3rd Winston Cup Championship Motorsports Driver of the Year NMPA Driver of the Year	R.Childress	29	11	1	$2,099,243	1st
1988
	R.Childress	29	3	0	$1,214,089	3rd
1989
	R.Childress	29	5	0	$1,435,730	2nd
1990
4th Winston Cup Championship NMPA Driver of the Year	R.Childress	29	9	4	$3,083,056	1st
1991
5th Winston Cup Championship	R.Childress	29	4	0	$2,396,685	1st
1992
	R.Childress	29	1	1	$915,463	12th
1993
6th Winston Cup Championship Won $3,353,789 in '93, which at that time was a motorsports record	R.Childress	30	6	2	$3,353,789	1st
1994
7th Winston Cup Championship This 7th Championship ties Dale with Richard Petty for the most Championships won Motorsports Driver of the Year NMPA Driver of the Year	R.Childress	31	4	2	$3,300,733	1st
1995
Dale finished the season missing his 8th Championship by only 34 points to Jeff Gordon Won the Brickyard 400 adding his name to the record books at the famed Indianapolis track	R.Childress	31	5	3	$3,154,241	2nd
1996
Earnhardt won 2 of the first 3 races in 1996 and was posting one solid finish after another until he was injured in a wreck at Talladega	R.Childress	31	2	2	$2,285,926	4th
1997
Dale failed to win a race this year. His first time since 1981 5th straight season he finished with a top 5 in points	R.Childress	32	0	0	$2,151,909	5th
1998
Dale won the 40th Annual Daytona 500 on his 20th attempt Dale earned $1,059,105 for the win, a NASCAR Record In the middle of the season due to poor performance of both teams, Childress switches crew chiefs putting Kevin Hamlin in charge of Earnhardts car and Larry McReynolds in charge of Mike Skinners car which resulted in improvements for both teams Dale Earnhardt expands his own Winston Cup Teams, DEI, by purchacing the rights to the #8 from the Stavola Brothers. The #8 was the number used by Dale's Father, Ralph Earnhardt. He now owns two, the #1 and the #8.	R.Childress	33	1	0	$2,721,100	8th 3,928 pts
1999
Dale Earnhardt's 25th Anniversary of Racing.	R Childress	18	1	-	$1,699,459	7th 2,324pts

7 Winston Cup Titles
80, 86, 87, 90, 91, 93, 94
(tying Richard Petty for the record)

72 Career Winston Cup Wins (6th on the all time win list)

Career Money Winning Leader, in racing history worldwide, over $35,000,000 (not including endorsements)

Currently 2nd for All Time Consecutive Starts

Only driver in the history of the sport to win NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year ('79) and NASCAR Winston Cup Championship ('80) in consecutive years

Only three-time winner of "The Winston" ('87, '90, '93)

American Driver of the Year 1987 and 1994

6 time Winner of the Busch Clash
1980, 86, 88, 91, 93, 95

Five-time NMPA Driver of the Year ('80, '86, '87, '90, '94)

12 Wins (10 consecutive) in the Daytona 125 mile Qualifying Race
1983, 86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99

2 Time Winner of the IROC Series Title 1990 and 1995

In 20 full seasons of Winston Cup Competition has finished in the Top 10 in points 18 times and has finished in the Top 5 in points 13 times

The first car owner to win championships in two major NASCAR Divisions in the same year:
1998 NASCAR Busch Series with driver Dale Earnhardt Jr
1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with driver Ron Hornaday

The first team owner to win two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championships 1996 and 1998 with driver Ron Hornaday

Daytona Notes
Dale Earnhardt has more wins (33) at Daytona International Speedway than any other driver:

Winston Cup Wins
   *1990 - July race Pepsi 400
   *1993 - July race Pepsi 400
   *1998 - Feb race Daytona 500 (This was the 40th Anniversary of the Daytona 500)

*6 time Winner of the Busch Clash
   1980, 86, 88, 91, 93, 95

*12 Wins (10 consecutive) in the Daytona 125 mile Qualifying Race
   1983, 86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99

*5 IROC races at Daytona
   2/14/92, 2/18/94, 2/17/95, 2/16/96, 2/12/99

*Seven-time winner of the Goody's 300 Busch race at Daytona
   Five of these were consecutive (82, 86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94)

In 43 Winston Cup Starts at Daytona, Earnhardt has 33 top-ten finishes.
3 are wins, 19 are positions 2 through 5 and 11 are finishes in positions 6 through 10. (07/04/99)