Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr.. On this occasion, good friend Doug Smith wrote some thoughts and posted them on Facebook. Doug asked if I could post his essay here as well. I don’t follow NASCAR too well, but I remember Earnhardt as being one of the finest drivers to ever be in the sport, and Doug’s thoughts about the state of NASCAR today are quite provocative and intriguing.

So without further ado, here’s Doug Smith’s post about No. 3 and what has happened to his sport…

“So, who you gonna pull for when he’s not racing any more?”

This is gonna be very much a free for all and may not follow a lot of structure but I’ve been planning this for a while and been beating myself up all day about what I wanted to write and how I

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