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Nothing New ; Following a six-month investigation into why Dale Earnhardt died, NASCAR makes no changes in safety mandates.(Brief Article)

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| September 03, 2001 | Pearce, Al | COPYRIGHT 2001 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

NASCAR spent more than $1 million and invested six months to confirm what it already knew: Dale Earnhardt died from a blow to an unprotected area of his head after his restraint system failed during his Feb. 18 crash in the Daytona 500. That was the gist of what the sanctioning body called ``the most thorough, most intense and most anticipated investigation in our 53-year history.''

The investigation began hours after the last-lap crash took America's best- known and most popular racer. It grew to include dozens of doctors, engineers, crash reconstructionists, physicists, biodynamicists and DNA experts. The Report covered 324 pages and was presented in two bound ...

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