After 9/11, NASCAR helped the healing process (Fox Sports)

StoryTools: Print Email Blog This Subscribe Ryan McGee / FOXSports.com Posted: 22 minutes ago Even before 9/11, the NASCAR was ready to get 2001 the hell over with. Coming off three tragic deaths in 2000, the new season had started in the worst possible manner with Dale Earnhardt's death in the Daytona 500. The investigation into that death had dragged on all season, creating a spring and summer full of finger-pointing and endless painful Earnhardt tributes. On August 21, NASCAR ...