I have Thunderstruck to thank for this idea. He pointed out that many of the important moments in NASCAR are kept alive by those who witnessed them.
There are many moments in history where we ALL remember where we were and what we were doing. The shooting of John F Kennedy for some of the older folks. The first landing of man on the moon. The bombing of the Alfred P Murrah building in Olkahoma City. The day Martin Luther King died. More recently, Hurricane Katrina, 911, the Boxing Day Tsunami. The first Daytona 500 you attended or can remember watching on TV. The 1998 Daytona 500 won by Dale Sr. The 2001 Daytona 500, won by Michael Waltrip for the first time, but also the day we lost Dale Sr. The first race won by Jeff Gordon.
So, please share with us all. I remember the first Daytona 500 I wastched was in 1989. I remember I was moving in 1998. I remember watching the 2001 Daytona by myself (for the first time in years) with only my 3 year old daughter for company, and watching Dale Sr tell us all that we were going to see something on FOX we had never seen before.
What will the 2008 Daytona 500 have for us? Will you forever remember where you were? who you were watching with? who won? History is about to be made AGAIN!!!
All I can say is BRING IT ON!!!!!
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JrCanuckFan
Feb 16 2008 00:24
Shannum
yes, the circle of life continues. Sometimes the events that sadden us the most help us also remember some of our happiest. I’m so sorry for your losses
shannum
Feb 09 2008 13:58
2001- what a year
I remember my father-in-law lost his voice to cancer 1 month before Daytona-01, my mother had a stroke on Ground Hog Day, I was home in time to watch the 500…everyone knows what happened there.
My mom died a week before Jr won the Pepsi 400.
My first great-nephew was born the following year (2002) on the anniversary of Dale’s death and we were at Daytona that year- our first race to witness in person.
The cycle of life continues
JrCanuckFan
Feb 04 2008 23:41
I, too
remember watching Dale Jr win, and thinking as he crossed the finish line that the nay sayers would be telling us all that the race had been fixed!!! I let that cloud my happiness at Jr winning, not because I believed it, but because I felt it would be discounted as a “fixed” win. Now, 7 years later, I can look at that race (yes, I recorded it) and CHEER!! LOUD AND LONG AND STRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and KNOW that Jr won it, fair and square! it wasn’t a fix!! He WON
that race!! D’ya know what I mean?
and 29, yes, sharing the race with friends has become so much more important, maybe because that’s all I have. I’m not travelling to a race anytime soon, all I have are my friends!
29thebomb
Feb 04 2008 23:12
Who I watch them with
is important and I met some really cool new people last year and enjoyed watching the races with them even if some of them were in another country. Let the good times roll!
cartercrew
Feb 03 2008 23:56
ME, TOO.
THE LOSS OF DALE SR WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED, BUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES HAPPENED LATER THAT YEAR. WE WERE IN PANAMA CITY BEACH, FL WHEN DALE JR WON THE PEPSI 400 ON HIS FIRST TRIP BACK TO DAYTONA SINCE LOSING HIS DAD. WE SAT IN THE HOTEL ROOM THAT ENTIRE NIGHT TO WATCH THE RACE. IT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL WIN, NOT ONLY FOR JR, BUT FOR ALL FANS OF BOTH HE AND HIS DAD.
JrCanuckFan
Feb 03 2008 22:54
I know
Crtny, I replay that day in my mind every year when it is time to race again. I remember comments, commercials, weather here that day, all of it. I dream of it. I relive it. It still hurts.
MrCrtny07
Feb 03 2008 22:46
I KEEP COMING
back to this blog Canuck and dang it…. When we lost Dale….Well let’s just say I can never get that one out of my mind.