Full Trailer for Sports Doc Series ‘Earnhardt’ About the Nascar Driver

Full Trailer for Sports Doc Series ‘Earnhardt’ About the Nascar Driver

by Alex Billington
April 25, 2025
Source: YouTube

“Dale had no friends on the racetrack – everybody else was an enemy.” 🏎 Imagine Docs and Prime Video have revealed the full official trailer for a documentary series called Earnhardt, about the iconic racecar driver family. Originally from North Carolina, almost everyone knows Dale Earnhardt – he was a famous racecar driver for 26 years, from the 80s all the way through the 90s until his fatal crash in 2001 (at age 49). This is his story. Earnhardt is a four-part documentary series that explores the legendary racing career and complex family dynamics of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt. With rare archival footage, thrilling races, and emotionally revealing interviews from his children, rivals, even closest friends, Earnhardt is the definitive story of an American icon, both on and off the track. His charm resonated beyond the sport, yielding fame and fortune. An intimate exploration of a working-class icon’s impact on his family and the racing world. Of course, everyone also now knows his son, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who also set NASCAR records & retired in 2017. With the upcoming F1 movie also this summer, it’s an exciting time for racing on screen. Have a look.

Here’s the official trailers (+ poster) for Prime Video’s doc series Earnhardt, direct from PV’s YouTube:

A charismatic, working-class hero to millions of fans, Dale Earnhardt was the most influential figure that NASCAR has ever known. ‘The Intimidator’ spent the better part of two decades as the most visible figure in stock car racing, breaking through the confines of the sport’s regional fan base into mainstream notoriety. The Goodwrench No. 3 Chevrolet, with an eye-catching black paint job, became one of the most feared and iconic symbols in NASCAR history, as Earnhardt notched 76 race wins and a record-tying 7 NASCAR Cup Series championships over a groundbreaking 26-year career. Racing was his life, and it ran in his blood. He grew up idolizing his father Ralph, a respected driver on the early NASCAR circuit, and his own children likewise strove to follow him onto the track—with his son Dale Earnhardt Jr. eventually becoming one of the most enduringly popular drivers in his own right. From one generation to the next, racing would become the Earnhardt legacy: fueling their greatest triumphs & delivering their deepest loss.

Earnhardt is a doc series directed by American doc filmmaker Joshua Altman, director of the doc film All These Sons and episodes of “Couples Therapy” previously; he’s also a film editor with work on many docs including Code Black, The Final Year, Minding the Gap, and Wildcat. Produced by Imagine Documentaries, Everyone Else, NASCAR Studios, in association with Dirty Mo Media. Executive produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Sara Bernstein, Christopher St. John, Justin Wilkes of Imagine Documentaries; Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin of Everyone Else; Tim Clark and John Dahl of NASCAR Studios. Amazon debuts Earnhardt streaming on Prime Video starting on May 22nd, 2025 coming soon this summer. Who’s ready to watch?

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