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Earnhardt investigation announcement set

By Dave Rodman, Turner Sports Interactive
August 18, 2001
4:55 PM EDT (2055 GMT)

BROOKLYN, Mich. -- NASCAR has announced the release of the results of the investigation into the fatal accident of Dale Earnhardt will be on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET at the downtown Hyatt Regency in Atlanta.

NASCAR says all the parties in the investigation, which included a number of experts in a variety of areas of the field of motorsports safety, would attend the news conference, which will be held in Centennial Ballrooms III and IV at the Hyatt at 265 Peachtree Street.

"Following the loss of Dale Earnhardt on Feb. 18 during the Daytona 500," NASCAR's media advisory said, "NASCAR immediately began an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the accident.

"The report is the culmination of six months of research by a team of the nation's leading engineers, scientists and doctors in the fields of crash reconstruction, biomechanical engineering and human kinetics.

The team of independent, outside experts worked together, sharing information and testing theories in what is perhaps the most thorough, comprehensive investigation in U.S. motorsports history."

On Saturday morning at Michigan International Speedway, Dale Jarrett said he had no plans to attend the report in Atlanta, but that NASCAR was working with a number of drivers to work as spokesmen after the fact.

Jarrett said NASCAR competitors more than likely would get to share the report before it was released to the public.

"I'm talking with NASCAR right now," Jarrett said, "and when I am satisfied that I know enough about it to speak on behalf of it there's a possibility that myself and a number of others will be available for the next couple of days after that, too.

"I haven't see it yet, but I think you can be pretty much assured that we'll know about it before y'all do."