As Nascar tries to come to terms with the loss of a legend, chief executive Bill France has admitted that it is a testing time for the sport. This is one of the big events, if you want to call it that, in the history of Nascar. France remained adamant that the sport would recover, although he appreciated it would take time.
Life has to go on.
Somebody is going to come along. Dale Earnhardt Jr. looks like he has pretty good potential to follow in his father's footsteps. Earnhardt Jr. finished second behind Michael Waltrip at Daytona. And before his fatal crash on the final lap Earnhardt was running in third to compete a potential podium clean sweep for his stable of drivers. Earnhardt owned Waltrip's car in addition to that of his son and his own, and after winning his first race in 463 attempts, Waltrip was looking forward to the post-race celebrations.