"When I was racing and losing, he'd always tell me, 'You'd win if I put you in my car.' So I said, 'Put me in one.'” Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt Sr. The post Michael Waltrip’s Former ...

When Michael won his first Daytona 500 in 2001, his career reached its zenith. He won the race, which ended under caution after a multi-car crash on the last lap, while driving for Dale Earnhardt ...

On February 18, 2001, Darrell Waltrip stood in the FOX Sports broadcast booth, calling his very first Daytona 500 as a commentator. But this wasn’t just any race, as the three-time Cup Series ...

Hard to believe, Earnhardt Jr. said, that his Pepsi 400 victory occurred just five months after his dad died in a Turn 4 crash on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Waltrip won that 500 ...

Michael Waltrip’s ... He spent years chasing his first Cup Series win, enduring more than 460 starts before finally breaking through in the most dramatic way possible at the 2001 Daytona 500.

After his triumph at the 2001 Daytona 500, Michael Waltrip would go on to win three more Daytona races, along with a win at the Talladega Superspeedway in 2003.

462 NASCAR Cup Series is the number of races veteran NASCAR driver, Michael Waltrip, took to snap his winless streak. We all know about the famous Daytona 500 win by him back in 2001, but ...

“And for nine long years, I tried not to think about it,” confessed Michael Waltrip, remembering the 2001 Daytona 500, the day (February 18, 2001) that changed everything.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. was born on April 29, 1951, in Kannapolis, NC, and put together one of the most legendary careers in NASCAR history before his tragic death in the 2001 Daytona 500, won by Waltrip.

The first NASCAR on Fox Cup Series race Larry McReynolds called was the 2001 Daytona 500. ... think in hiring Michael Waltrip? He can’t win a race.’ And here he’s going to win the Daytona 500.