The story told of Dale Earnhardt in Amazon Prime Video's docuseries, Earnhardt, was an emotional rollercoaster, to say the ...

Ralph Earnhardt, a former Late Model Sportsman national champion, was in his garage in Kannapolis, N.C., making carburetor parts for his son’s race car when a heart attack killed him in 1973. He ...

Dale Earnhardt's first racing garage was his dad's side-yard shop. Behind Ralph and Martha Earnhardt's house on Sedan Avenue, where Martha still lives, Ralph built a garage that served as his race ...

4. Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr., however, is a different story. He’s known mostly as just Junior. 5. Dale’s dad Ralph was one of the first short-track racers of his era to quit work and go racing ...

Ralph Earnhardt worked briefly in a textile mill and a neighborhood garage before going ”serious” racing in the mid-’50s. He built cars and engines in a garage behind his house, Dale always ...

The Earnhardt family tree has been long, and it is still expanding. But its roots are rarely looked at – Ralph Earnhardt, ... in the garage. Earnhardt passed away in 1973, aged 45 years old, ...

Earnhardt led the pit box for Connor Zilisch, who drives for Earnhardt's JR Motorsports, for this weekend's Xfinity Series ...

6. Ralph Earnhardt posted 16 top-10s and six top-5s, including a runner-up finish to Speedy Thompson at Hickory in 1956, in his first-ever Cup start.

Dale Earnhardt was one of NASCAR’s biggest stars when he died at the 2001 Daytona 500 in a last-lap crash. His hometown of Kannapolis, NC, never forgot him.

Ralph Earnhardt was one of my dirt test drivers. Dale was always hanging around the garage. He looked like something you needed to sweep out because he was always dirty with stringy hair.

Ralph Earnhardt’s headstone includes artwork depicting his No. 8 race car. It was Ralph Earnhardt, a successful short-track racer, who taught Dale Earnhardt about cars in the family garage in ...

Dale Earnhardt was one of NASCAR’s biggest stars when he died at the 2001 Daytona 500 in a last-lap crash. His hometown of Kannapolis, NC, never forgot him.