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Fox was happy. So were the , people in attendance, as indicated by their roars whenever The Intimidator took the lead. The only big-ticket item missing from the show was the "Big One. Tony Stewart's orange No. As the car turned around backward, a pair of roof flaps snapped into place, designed to keep the 3,pound machine from going airborne.
But two hits from onrushing cars punted Stewart's car into the air. It did a pirouette, landing on the hood of another car and barrel-rolling twice before landing atop teammate Bobby Labonte 's car and eventually sliding to rest, destroyed, in the backstretch grass. It looked -- and was -- awful. But Stewart climbed out of what was left of his car, shaken but OK. But how, especially without any head and neck restraints? The head-on collision meant his head had traveled straight forward, stopped before it could extend into a deadly head whip.
His steering wheel had likely saved his life. Stuff flying everywhere. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. That's energy that's leaving. It's going away from me with that junk. It's not going back into my body as a race car driver. And that's the other stupid saying you'll hear.
With the field parked under a red flag so crews could clean up the mess, Earnhardt chatted with Childress on the radio. The restart came on Lap , with 20 to go.
On Lap , Earnhardt was in the lead. One circuit later, he allowed Michael Waltrip to slide by, taking Earnhardt Jr.
With his two DEI cars in the lead, The Intimidator did something no one can ever remember happening in his previous 22 Daytona starts: He widened out his rear bumper and blocked anyone and everyone trying to make a charge at Mikey and Junior. As that scramble rolled through the final two turns of the event, Waltrip and Earnhardt Jr. Marlin had attempted one last push to catch them, moving below Senior down the backstretch.
That opened the door for a wall of cars, three-wide behind Earnhardt as they entered the last turn. When Earnhardt dropped low in front of Marlin, he hadn't completely cleared the nose of the No. That forced Earnhardt's car to ricochet back up into the steep degree banking, cutting across the front of the pack of the cars behind him. For a fraction of a second, the nose of Earnhardt's Chevy corrected itself, pointed briefly in the right direction to resume racing.
There was even a puff of brake smoke. But then Schrader's car hit Earnhardt in the passenger side door, creating a sudden surge of speed and turning both cars into the wall.
Schrader was sandwiched between the concrete barrier and the nose of Earnhardt's ride. According to the official accident report, Earnhardt's Monte Carlo was traveling mph when it blasted into the bare concrete wall at the 1 o'clock angle and immediately decelerated by mph. The impact registered around 60 G's, so much force that it pushed the entire right front corner of the car from an aerodynamic curve into a flat surface that fit the wall as perfectly as a jigsaw puzzle piece.
The engine stayed put, but everything around it moved, in some cases a full two or three feet to the right. His pound body was thrown far enough out into the right center of the cockpit that he suffered a blow to the back of his head. Earnhardt suffered a broken ankle, broken ribs, a fractured sternum and cuts to his scalp and chin.
But the fatal injury was a basilar skull fracture, with breaks in every bone where the skull meets the spine. The impact also broke a left side lap belt that was already frayed, but multiple doctors interviewed said that, due to the nature of a basilar skull fracture, Earnhardt's mortal wound had already been inflicted by the time the force of the crash broke the belt. But he was immediately distracted by Earnhardt's crash, watching the No.
To the 17 million people watching at home, the crash looked like nothing, especially compared to Stewart's spectacular accident a half-hour earlier. You got the sense that something wasn't right. Schrader became the day's unwitting messenger of tragedy. His car slid alongside Earnhardt's and they stopped nose-to-door in the infield grass.
When he limped around to talk to his friend, he instead dropped the window net to an unimaginable scene. Months later, when the photos of the car were released as part of NASCAR's presentation of its crash investigation, hardly any image didn't include blood stains.
To this day, all Schrader will say of what he saw is, "I just knew that it wasn't good. Dale was in serious trouble. Steve Bohannon had been a Daytona Beach resident since , working at Halifax Health Medical Center, located less than a mile and a half from the speedway's start-finish line.
In , he was hired by the racetrack as its chief emergency doctor. He arrived at Earnhardt's car less than 10 minutes after the crash, after crews had already cut the roof off the car and a surgeon stationed closer to the scene had already been administering resuscitation efforts. He often posts photos from the graveyard on Twitter and gets a lot of questions about it from fans.
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