LEXINGTON, N.C. — Danny "Chocolate" Myers will tell you - with absolute certainty - that Dale Earnhardt was, and is, the greatest that's ever been.
"We lost Dale 19 years ago today, and we still talk about Dale Earnhardt more than we talk about the guys that are on the racetrack," he said.
Myers was Earnhardt's gasman in the pit crew for many years, up until Earnhardt's death - when his racecar hit the wall on the last lap of the Daytona 500 in 2001.
"We lost our driver, our best friend, our hero - all at the same time," Myers said, "Dale Earnhardt was Superman. Nobody thought that Dale could get hurt, nobody thought that anything could go wrong, and then all of a sudden we lose the biggest star in NASCAR."