My dad has a model of the C5R that he and Jr. drove in the Rolex 24 just a couple weeks before that fateful day. It's one of his most prized models out of all of the ones he has. It's surreal to see the picture of him and Jr. on the podium at the Rolex 24, and seeing both happy (second in class, fourth overall) a mere two weeks or so before he was killed on the same race track that he was having the time of his life on. My dad deliberately taped every race from there on that year. He flat went nuts when Jr. won the July race at Daytona. That (and Harvick's win a couple weeks after he died) really helped NASCAR heal.
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