‘It was just so seemingly unbelievable’: ‘Earnhardt’ director reflects on Dale Earnhardt’s NASCAR fame, quest for greatness, and tragic death

‘It was just so seemingly unbelievable’: ‘Earnhardt’ director reflects on Dale Earnhardt’s NASCAR fame, quest for greatness, and tragic death

Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001 sent shockwaves throughout the world of NASCAR unlike any racer's death before or since. "It's not that people didn't die racing," says documentarian Daniel Lindsay, executive producer and co-showrunner of Prime Video's docuseries Earnhardt. "That was apart of the sport. It was just so seemingly unbelievable that the star of the sport would lose his life in that way." Despite not growing up as a NASCAR fan, Lindsay…