Sundays Will Never Be the Same

Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport

Darrell Waltrip, Nate Larkin

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451644913
• Print ISBN:
  9781451644906

From the former NASCAR champion and current Fox Sports announcer, an intimate account of one of the most dramatic and tragic days in the history of NASCAR: the 2001 Daytona 500—the day that racing legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr. died.

In Sundays Will Never Be the Same, former NASCAR champion and current FOX Sports racing analyst Darrell Waltrip provides an intimate account of one of the most dramatic and tragic days in the history of NASCAR: the 2001 Daytona 500—the day that racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. died.

The sudden death of Earnhardt on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 was a traumatic loss for the entire NASCAR family, and few were affected more deeply than Darrell Waltrip. During the course of their tumultuous thirty-year association, Dale and Darrell had been friends, then “frenemies,” and finally friends again. Darrell takes us through the fascinating history of racing in Daytona, offering glimpses of some of the sport’s most colorful characters. He recounts the highs and lows of his relationship with Earnhardt through the twin arcs of their overlapping careers, and concludes with a heart-wrenching insider account of that pivotal weekend in Daytona.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Description
• Author Bio
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chapter One: My New Life
• Chapter Two: The Road to Daytona
• Chapter Three: Rebel without a Clue
• Chapter Four: The Redhead
• Chapter Five: Escape from Owensboro
• Chapter Six: Shaking things Up
• Chapter Seven: The Rookie is a Brat
• Chapter Eight: Playing Hardball in the Big Leagues
• Chapter Nine: Driving for Junior
• Chapter Ten: Leap of Faith
• Chapter Eleven: Chasing Dale
• Chapter Twelve: No Pain, No Naproxen
• Chapter Thirteen: The Owner-Driver Years
• Chapter Fourteen: Toward the Finish Line
• Chapter Fifteen: The Unthinkable
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Photographs
• Index
• About the Authors