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Barry Pepper’s lean, mean performance as Dale Earnhardt Sr., NASCAR's legendary "Intimidator," who raced his car #3 to glory and died during the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, is the highlight of this made-for-TV biopic. Tired of doing brutal work for a pittance, North Carolina textile-mill worker Ralph Earnhardt (J. K. Simmons) instead carves a niche for himself on 1960s speedways. Ralph's his son, Dale (Dylan Smith), wants to follow in his footsteps, but as far as Ralph is concerned the boy is better suited to being a mechanic than a driver. Ralph isn't particularly surprised when his rebellious and disobedient son drops out of school in 1967, and Dale (Pepper) ...