"20 years of trying, 20 years of frustration…"
Every NASCAR fan immediately recognizes those words, spoken in the final moments of the 1998 Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt had won everything there is to win at Daytona – and to this day, no driver has more victories than him at the Florida superspeedway. However, it took him two full decades to claim the biggest prize of them all. In an unprecedented show of respect, every member of every crew then lined up on pit road to congratulate ‘The Intimidator’ after the checkered flag.
