Editing Dale Earnhardt (section)

==Awards==
[[File:NCSHF Earnhardt suit.JPG|100px|thumb|Earnhardt's suit on display at the [[North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame]]]]
* He was awarded the [[Order of the Long Leaf Pine]] by [[North Carolina Governor]] [[Jim Hunt]] in 1994.<ref name="Hunt 3">{{cite book|title=Addresses and Public Papers of James Baxter Hunt Jr. Governor of North Carolina Vol. III 1993–1997|year=2000|publisher=North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources|location=Raleigh, NC|isbn=0-86526-289-6|editor=Poff, Jan-Michael|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/addressespublicp0000hunt}}</ref>{{RP|634}}
* He was inducted into the [[North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ncshof.org/inductees_detail.php?i_recid=131 |title=North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame &#124; Raleigh, NC |publisher=Ncshof.org |access-date=February 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331104557/http://ncshof.org/inductees_detail.php?i_recid=131 |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* Earnhardt was named one of [[NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers]] in 1998.
* Earnhardt was posthumously named "NASCAR's Most Popular Driver" in 2001. This was the only time he received the award.
* He was posthumously inducted into the [[Motorsports Hall of Fame of America]]<ref name=MSHoF>{{cite web |url=http://www.mshf.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/dale-earnhardt.html |title=Dale Earnhardt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008182626/http://www.mshf.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/dale-earnhardt.html |archive-date=October 8, 2019 |publisher=[[Motorsports Hall of Fame of America]]}}</ref> in 2002, a year after his death.
* He was posthumously inducted in the Oceanside Rotary Club Stock Car Racing Hall of Fame at Daytona Beach in 2004.<ref>[http://www.oceansiderotary.org/stockcarhalloffame/D_Earnhardt.htm]{{dead link|date=September 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
* He was posthumously inducted in the [[International Motorsports Hall of Fame]] in 2006.
* Earnhardt was named first on ESPN's list of "NASCAR's 20 Greatest Drivers" in 2007 in front of [[Richard Petty]]. 
* He was posthumously inducted into the [[Automotive Hall of Fame]] in 2006.
* He was posthumously inducted in the Inaugural Class of the [[NASCAR Hall of Fame]] on May 23, 2010.
* He was posthumously inducted into the [[Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum#Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame|Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://indyracingmuseum.org/guthrie-earnhardt-voted-into-indianapolis-motor-speedway-hall-of-fame/ |title=Guthrie, Earnhardt Voted into Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame |date=February 19, 2020 |publisher=Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum |access-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807211327/https://indyracingmuseum.org/guthrie-earnhardt-voted-into-indianapolis-motor-speedway-hall-of-fame/ |url-status=live }}</ref>