Earnhardt won his first career superspeedway at Atlanta in the spring; he beat Rusty Wallace - in Rusty's NASCAR Winston Cup debut - by more than nine seconds. Earnhardt won again the following week at Bristol.

Feb 8, 2021 · Legend Dale Earnhardt is forever linked with the No. 3 Chevy that earned him "The Man in Black" nickname. But he drove more than just that one car.

In 1979 and 1980, Dale Earnhardt raced Chevy Monte Carlos mixed with Oldsmobile Cutlass 442's. The sleek and slippery Cutlass was used on the Superspeedways, while the more boxy Monte Carlo was used on short tracks.

Dale Earnhardt, the 1980 champion. The 1980 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 32nd season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 9th modern-era NASCAR Cup season. It was the final year with the Gen 2 car.

Sep 11, 2017 · In 1986, the first year of that Aerodeck racecar, Dale Earnhardt was behind the wheel of a yellow and blue Monte Carlo, sponsored by Wrangler jeans. He’d run out of fuel at that year’s Daytona 500 with just three laps to go, an agonizing defeat—but he went on to win five races, as well as his second Winston Cup Championship.

He is the only driver in NASCAR history to score at least one win in four different and consecutive decades (scoring his first career win in 1979, 38 wins in the 1980s, 35 wins in the 1990s, & scoring his final two career wins in 2000). He also earned seven Winston Cup championships, a record held with Richard Petty and Jimmie Johnson.

Sep 30, 2020 · Dale Earnhardt’s 1980 championship car headlines “Dale Jr.: Glory Road Champions” exhibit at NASCAR Hall of Fame. Wrangler’s long association with Dale Earnhardt began in the last race of his first championship campaign.

Dale Earnhardt race results in the 1980 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

Jan 10, 2020 · The car Earnhardt drove to his first of seven Cup titles in 1980 while he raced for owner Rod Osterlund. Earnhardt won five times and led the point standings for all but one of the season’s 31 races, leaving the season opener at Daytona second in points.

Dale Earnhardt History. An index of highlights from the illustrious NASCAR career of Dale Earnhardt.