[Moose4]

I think it may be fair to say that Earnhardt may have been the greatest superspeedway driver of all time, even better than Petty (and I'm a HUGE King Richard fan). He may have had troubles at the Daytona 500, but at the (former) Firecracker 400, and at Talladega, Dale was dominant. He was an absolute master of the draft. The old joke was that he could "see" the way air was coming off the cars and react accordingly, and by some of the moves he pulled, I almost believe it.

As an overall driver and head of an organization, yeah, it's King Richard, no contest. Nobody could touch him back in those days when they still ran on dirt and ran 40+ races a year. Richard was also helped because he raced in an era with fewer rules and a lot less parity, and he had some of the most dominant cars of their time (the Superbirds).

}:-)4

[reagandemo]

Out of all the years that Richard drove the Superbird was very short in length. Remember those days they were actually stock cars. With the inferior make up of the cars ability to protect the drivers there were a lot of more deaths and injuries. Todays cars have nothing in common with production cars except for a skin. They are still deadly. Just not as much. In the 60's it was normal to hear of a driver getting maimed or killed about every weekend. Richard raced against just as tough competition as Dale did. Think of A.J. Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Junior Johnson, just to name a few. Don't cheapen their record and skills.