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Dale Earnhardt: Wins
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Earnhardt and Moore got along OK, but Dale never managed to build a comfortable relationship with Ford. In 1984 Dale and Richard teamed up again - and the rest as they say is history. Together they won six championships - three amazing sets of back-to-back titles! Any driver out there can tell you how hard it is to win one title let alone back-to-back titles. The only other drivers to accomplish the feat in the last two decades are Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Gordon.
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At the August Bristol race, Earnhardt found himself in contention to win his first short track race since Martinsville in 1995. When a caution came out with 15 laps to go, leader Terry Labonte got hit from behind by the lapped car of Darrell Waltrip. His spin put Earnhardt in the lead with 5 cars between him and Labonte with 5 laps to go. Labonte had four fresh tires and Earnhardt was driving on old tires, which made Earnhardt's car considerably slower. Labonte caught Earnhardt and passed him coming to the white flag, but Earnhardt drove hard into turn two, bumping Labonte and spinning him around. Dale went on to collect the win while spectators booed and made obscene gestures. "I didn't try to turn him around, I just wanted to rattle his cage", Earnhardt said of the incident.
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Earnhardt began the 1988 season with new primary sponsor GM Goodwrench. GM Goodwrench insisted on a black paint scheme which would become Earnhardt's signature, so much so that it inspired a nickname, "The Man In Black." Earnhardt scored three wins at Martinsville, Darlington, and Bristol. He finished third in the final points standings behind Bill Elliott and Rusty Wallace.
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In the 2000 season, Earnhardt had a resurgence, which some attributed to neck surgery he underwent to correct a lingering injury from his 1996 Talladega crash. He scored what many considered the 2 most exciting wins of the year - winning by .006 seconds over Bobby Labonte at Atlanta, then gaining seventeen positions in the final four laps to win at Talladega, claiming his only No Bull million dollar bonus. Earnhardt ... enjoyed strong second-place runs at Richmond and Martinsville, tracks where he'd struggled through the late '90s. On the strength of these performances, Earnhardt took the No. 3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo to 2nd in the standings. However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the innerloop, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Lowe's and Dover, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.
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Earnhardt has a ton of fans, but at some point, he has to start losing them if he can't win. No one wants to cheer for that. He obviously can't be an effective endorser for the likes of Wrangler, Pepsi, Adidas and Drakkar Noir, either. One of the key tenants of a good endorser is being a winner.
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In 1989 Earnhardt scored five wins: two at Dover, with one each at North Wilkesboro, Darlington, and Atlanta. Earnhardt was racing against Ricky Rudd for the win at North Wilkesboro with a handful of laps to go. Earnhardt went for the win. The drivers collided and both of them spun, giving the win to Geoff Bodine. Earnhardt finished twelfth instead of second, which eventually was his downfall (he finished second to Rusty Wallace by 12 points).
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