3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004) on Netflix
NR20041h 32mBiographyDramaSport
Dale Earnhardt of Kannapolis learns about cars in his father Ralph's garage, where jalopies are rebuilt and raced on weekends. He leaves school to race and spends years in his father's shadow.
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Plot summary
In Kannapolis, North Carolina, Ralph Earnhardt works at a mill and rebuilds jalopies in his garage, racing them at local events on weekends. His son Dale learns about cars beside him and wants the same life. Ralph is a minor legend of Southern stock-car racing, and Dale drops out of high school to race, then spends more than a decade trying to establish himself, tangling on the track with men like Darrell Waltrip. A family grows up alongside the racing, and in the late 1970s he breaks into NASCAR. Years afterward his son Dale Jr., at sixteen, decides he wants to race too.
Cast
- Tricia Quattlebaumas Daisy
- Michael Flippoas Wayne Robertson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Richard Childress, Dale Earnhardt's long-time car owner, sued ESPN for copyright infringement over the use of the "3" logo, and the case was settled out of court in December 2005.
- Chad McCumbee, who portrayed Earnhardt Jr. in the film, later became a NASCAR driver in the Craftsman Truck Series; in 2007 he raced alongside Dale Jr. himself at the Pocono 500, driving Kyle Petty's 45 car while Petty was in the TNT broadcast booth.
- Many of the film's race scenes were filmed at Rockingham Speedway, a track that had lost its NASCAR races and by then was used mostly as a test facility and driving school.
- The script was not approved by Dale Earnhardt's widow, Teresa Earnhardt, and the finished film is inaccurate in many of the events it shows.
