Dale Earnhardt Jr. brings NASCAR background to lifestyles with television sequence

Jeff Gluck, country these days activities , WCNC 5:04 PM. EST might also 03, 2016

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the govt producer of a 3-half sequence on NASCAR, its personalities and its history. (photograph: Mark J. Rebilas, usa these days activities)

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – NASCAR fans have heard about men like Raymond Parks and red Byron, inventory car racing pioneers who helped shape the sport.

but most don't recognize precisely what they did in NASCAR's early days, and their personalities are much more of an unknown.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had that in common with race fans except he helped create a brand new docudrama collection, and he hopes fans will be enlightened as well.

Earnhardt is the government producer of CMT's "NASCAR: the upward push of yank velocity" which debuts at 9 p.m. ET Sunday with the first episode in a three-half collection.

The show facets historical photos combined with a narrative advised through reenactments, akin to background Channel miniseries like "The Bible," "the world Wars" and "the united states: The Story of Us."

"It nearly gives you a sense that you simply're looking at the real thing take place," Earnhardt informed united states of america these days sports on Tuesday. "i admire that, and that i learned a ton. I appreciate the names – i do know this man become the primary champion we ever had or this guy did this, but I don't recognize the rest. and you discover this man was cantankerous or this man become willing to work with Mr. France. You get a peek into their personalities a bit bit, and you come to be fitting a fan of 1 in accordance with how the stories are being told."

The sequence follows NASCAR from its roots to the foremost league sport it's develop into over the ultimate two many years. Sunday's episode shows how bill France Sr. brought Southern bootleggers together and helped legitimize racing, whereas future episodes demonstrate NASCAR's ascension to the mainstream and the way tv turned drivers into superstars.

one in every of Earnhardt's favourite experiences – one he'd in no way heard – become how the 1979 Daytona 500 essentially didn't air. A rain lengthen put network executives on the verge of pulling the plug, which intended NASCAR's first televised flag-to-flag race – the one that finally launched NASCAR into the national recognition – could not have came about.

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