
IRONHEAD: THE EARLY YEARS


"I
started Winston Cup racing in 1979 with guys like
Buddy
Baker, Bobby and Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough.
I
got beat alot. But I also learned alot"
Dale
Earnhardt


"I'm
patterned from the old drivers. All those guys I watched
racing
growing up were tough old boys. That's where I got
my
aggressive, hard style."
Dale
Earnhardt


The
Beginning of Brilliance


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"Earnhardt
has one style - all out and hard chargin'. It comes
from
the old days from guys like Junior Johnson and Curtis Turner.
Years
ago there were 10 or 15 guys driving that way. Now there's Dale."
Richard
Childress

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"When
he came home from a race, and there wasn't much
dirt
on the car, I knew Daddy probably had won."
Dale
Earnhardt
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"I
raced Ralph for years and years, and Dale drives just like his Daddy."
Ned
Jarrett
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"Everything
I've accomplished in my career, I trace back to being
taught
by Ralph Earnhardt."
Dale
Earnhardt
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"Determination"


Stay Outta My Way, or you'll go to "Fist City"....


The
Seventh Championship
Dale
always managed to bring out the "kid" in all of us.......
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