An entire generation of NASCAR drivers, and an entire generation of race fans, have passed through the Daytona International Speedway since Dale Earnhardt ... of the HANS Device, much more bullish ...

NASCAR has produced some of the most heated rivalries and moments in motorsports history, but Dale Earnhardt Sr. dropped his with ... including mandating the HANS device, a U-shaped carbon fiber ...

However, all the hate towards him, died a swift death when he had a horrific accident that gave him a head injury. Dale Earnhardt ... use HANS (Head And Neck Support restraint) devices.

It sold only sporadically throughout the 90s, but after Dale Earnhardt died in a crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 – coincidentally, of the same injury that lead to the HANS device's creation – it ...