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a former American race car driver and sports commentator known for his 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Championship win. He is the son of two-time NASCAR Winston Cup Champion Ned Jarrett. In 1980 Jarrett made his Cup debut. Driving the #02 Chevrolet for Emanuel Zervakis at Martinsville Speedway, he qualified 24th and finished fourteenth. He made two more Cup starts that season. In 1987, Jarrett replaced Tommy Ellis in the #18 Chevrolet owned by Eric Freelander early in the season. Running a primarily-unsponsored car, he had two tenth-place finishes and ended the season 26th in points, second to Davey Allison for Rookie of the Year honors. He ran every race of the 1988 and 1989 season driving for Cale Yarborough in the Hardee's Chevy. In 1990; he switched to the Wood Brothers where he posted seven top 10 finishes and a season best finish of fourth at the year ending Atlanta Journal 500. In 1991 Jarrett won his first career Cup race at Michigan International Speedway, and finished a then career-best 17th in the final standings. 1992 saw Jarret move from the Wood Brothers team; to new car owner Joe Gibbs where he posted two top 5 finishes. Jarrett won the 1993 Daytona 500 over Dale Earnhardt (commonly referred to as "The Dale and Dale Show" video via YouTube) in a race called by his father Ned

Jarrett. Dale's Mom Martha was sitting in a van and couldn't bare to watch the finish. He won again for Gibbs in 1994 at Charlotte. Jarrett signed to drive for Robert Yates in 1995, piloting the #28 Texaco Ford in place of an injured Ernie Irvan. He would remain with Yates through 2006. He would win at least one time every year driving for Yates through 2003. He won his first race for Yates at Pocono Raceway and finished 13th in the final standings. In 1996, Jarrett won the Daytona 500 for a second time, and finished in the top-2 in each of the first three races of the season. He also won the Coca-Cola 600 and the Brickyard 400 and finished third in the final standings behind his Hendrick Motorsports teammates Terry Labonte and Jeff Gordon. Jarrett's kissing of the bricks at

Indianapolis started a tradition that has been used by every NASCAR team at the race since then, and at the Indianapolis 500 since 2003. The following season, he won a career-best seven races but lost the championship to Jeff Gordon by fourteen points. In 1998, Jarrett won three races, and finished second in the last two races of the year, ending up third in the final standings to Jeff Gordon, despite suffering gallbladder problems. After an off season surgery, Jarrett returned in 1999 and took the points lead after his first win of the season in the Pontiac Excitement 400, and held it for the rest of the year, when he won his first career Winston Cup title by 201 points over Bobby Labonte. Following his title in 1999, Jarrett won the Daytona 500 for the third time in 2000, but after winning only one other race and dropping to fourth in the standings, Ford elected to withdraw as a primary sponsor.

United Parcel Service was signed as the primary sponsor for Jarrett's car, and shortly thereafter UPS began a multi-year promotional campaign involving UPS, and made TV commercials that had executives trying to convince him to drive their trademark "Big Brown Truck" in a race. UPS would be Jarrett's only sponsor from this point until the time he retired in 2008. In 2005, Jarrett got his last career win at Talladega Superspeedway, in the 2006 season, Jarrett had four top-ten finishes, with a best finish of fourth at Kansas. His best starting position was second and he finished 23rd in points. It was his last year racing for Yates, as he and sponsor UPS left for Michael Waltrip Racing's new #44 Toyota team. Since Jarrett's team was a brand new team and had no owner points, and due to a rule change, he was only eligible to use the Past Champion's

Provisional five times. Jarrett was forced to use all five of his provisionals at the start of the season, starting at Daytona. He started 43rd in the Daytona 500 and finished 22nd. Dale used his last champion's provisional at the Spring Talladega race, Aaron's 499. For the rest of 2007, Jarrett had to get into that weekend's race on time. Jarrett missed eleven races in 2007 as a result. During an interview on Speed, Dale said after his contract is up with MWR (which was expected to be in the 2009 season), he would retire, but the timetable was pushed up in October 2007 prior to the 2007 Bank of America 500. Jarrett retired from points racing after the 2008 Food City 500, turning the #44 Toyota ride to David Reutimann. His final race was the All-Star race in May, 2008 after which he joined ESPN's NASCAR coverage full-time as a booth

announcer. For his career Jarrett competed in 668 CUP events. He posted 22 wins, with 163 top five finishes. He was the points champion in 1999, and finished in the top five in points seven times. He won the Daytona 500 three times (1993, 1996, & 2000), the BrickYard 400 twice (1996 & 1999) and the Coke 600 in 1996. He was also voted one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest drivers in 1998. Jarrett was also a accomplished Xfinity driver. He ran in 329 races and won on 11 occasions. He finished in the top five in points in that division five times and had 105 top 5 finishes. For more info on his broadcasting career follow this link HERE. Some info from Wikipedia

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DALE ARNOLD JARRETT - 11/26/1956