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Dale Earnhardt
"The Intimidator"

1999 Winston Cup Year to Date Stats
1999 IROC Champion

NO.		Event	Qualified	Finished
1	Feb 14	Daytona 500 - Daytona Beach, FL	4th	2nd
2	Feb 21	Dura Lube/Big K-Mart 400- Rockingham, NC	18th	41st
3	Mar 7	LasVegas 400 - Las Vegas, NV	38th	7th
4	Mar 14	Cracker Barrel 500 - Hampton, GA	33rd	40th
5	Mar 21	Transouth Financial 400 - Darlington, SC	30th	25th
6	Mar 28	Primestar 500 - Fort Worth, TX	38th	8th
7	Apr 11	Food City 500 - Bristol, TN	34th/43rd	10th
8	Apr 18	Goody's Headache Powder 500 - Martinsville, VA	39th	19th
9	Apr 25	Diehard 500 - Talladega, AL	17th	1st
10	May 2	California 500 - Fontana, CA	9th	12th
11	May 15	Pontiac Excitement 400 - Richmond, VA	37th	8th
12	May 30	Coca Cola 600 - Concord, NC	15th	6th
13	June 6	MBNA Platinum 400 - Dover, DE	34th	11th
14	June 13	Michigan 400 - Brooklyn, MI	15th	16th
15	June 20	Pocono 500 - Long Pond, PA	25th	7th
16	June 27	Save Mart/Kragen 350 - Sonoma, CA	23rd	9th
17	July 3	Pepsi 400 - Daytona Beach , FL	10th	2nd
18	July 11	Jiffy Lube 300 - Loudon, NH	14th	8th
19	July 25	Pennsylvania 500 - Long Pond, PA	11th	9th
20	Aug 7	Brickyard 400 - Speedway, IN	18th	10th
21	Aug 15	Frontier at the Glen - Watkins Glen, NY	14th	20th
22	Aug 22	Pepsi 400 - Brooklyn, MI	38th	5th
23	Aug 28	Goody's Headache Powder 500 - Bristol, TN	26th	1st
24	Sep 5	Pepsi Southern 500 - Darlington, SC	25th	22nd
25	Sep 11	Exide Nascar Select 400 - Richmond, VA	33rd	6th
26	Sep 19	New Hampshire 300 - Loudon, NH	-	-
27	Sep 26	MBNA Gold 400 - Dover, DE	-	-
28	Oct 3	NAPA Autocare 500 - Martinsville, VA	-	-
29	Oct 10	UAW-GM Quality 500 - Concord, NC	-	-
30	Oct 17	Winston 500 - Talladega, AL	-	-
31	Oct 24	TBA - Rockingham, MC	-	-
32	Nov 7	Dura Lube 500 - Avondale, AZ	-	-
33	Nov 14	Jiffy Lube Miami 400 - Homestead, FL	-	-
34	Nov 21	NAPA 500 - Hampton, GA	-	-

After 25 Race

Wins	Top 5	Top 10	Top 15	Poles	Pos in Points Standing	Points	YTD Earnings
2	5	15	16	-	7th	3,291	$ 2,155,648

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Career Achievements

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. Aug 15, 1999 at Watkins Glen Earnhardt made his 600th consecutive Winston Cup start. In his career he has only missed 4 races in 1979 due to injuries from an accident at Pocono. 1999 IROC Champion winning three of the four IROC races	R Childress	25	2	-	$2,155,684	7th 3,192 pts

Years Racing	Total Races	Total Wins	Total Top 5's	Total Top 10's	Championshps	Total Winnings
25	633	73	267	399	7	$35,535,344

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)

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