DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - For 13 years following the death of NASCAR's seven-time champion driver Dale Earnhardt in a crash at Daytona International Speedway, no car in the Daytona 500 bore the famed "No. 3" that Earnhardt drove.
That will change on Sunday when Austin Dillon, the 23-year grandson of Earnhardt's car owner, Richard Childress, takes the track from pole position for the Daytona 500 in a Chevrolet No. 3 in the same font used by the man known as "The Intimidator."
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