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Marlin blamed by some for Earnhardt’s death By Mike Harris The Associated Press Sterling Marlin said he “defi nitely didn’t do anything inten tional” when he bumped Dale Earnhardt at the Daytona 500, trig gering the crash that killed the stock car racing great. He said it was “pure luck” he didn’t crash, too. The bump and the fatal accident set off a flurry of ugly e-mail to Marlin’s Web site, and threats against him and his family have been phoned to his race shop in Mooresville, N.C. “Maybe people are frustrated and just looking for somebody to blame. I’d do anything to not be here today, to not address this sub ject,” said Marlin, speaking for the first time since the racing world learned of Earnhardt’s death Sun day night. “If people just come back to their senses, listen to what every body’s saying and watch the tape, that’s all I ask,” he said by tele phone from his home in Columbia, Tenn. Earnhardt was killed on the last turn of the last lap of NASCAR’s season-opening race, slamming head-on into the con crete wall after making contact with Marlin at the front of a tight pack of five cars fighting for posi tion. “I definitely didn’t do anything intentional. We were just racing our guts out on the last lap of the Daytona 500,” said Marlin, a two time Daytona 500 winner who was longtime competitor and friend of Earnhardt’s. “I’ve only seen the tape once, but from what I saw, it was a total ly racing accident,” he said. “Ken ny (Schrader) pulled up to make it three-deep going in, with me on the bottom. “Some other guys were closing fast and I think Rusty (Wallace) got up on him and got him loose. Dale and my car barely touched, and it sent my car across the apron, and Dale’s, too. He over corrected, and then I didn’t see him again.” Marlin somehow kept his car go ing straight and went on to finish fifth in the season-opening race. “It was pure luck I caught it,” he said. “When you run across the apron at Daytona at 180 miles an hour, you usually don’t come back.” { { I definitely didn’t do anything intentional. We were just racing our guts out on the last lap of the Daytona 500. Sterling Marlin NASCAR racer 11 Earnhardt didn’t, sliding into Schrader. The two of them then slammed into the wall. The 49 year-old Earnhardt, a seven-time Winston Cup champion and the greatest driver of his era, died in stantly of massive head injuries. Almost immediately, the threats and e-mails started for Marlin. Chip Ganassi Racing team spokeswoman Gigi Liberati de clined to go into detail about the phone calls and electronic mes sages, and she declined to say what kind of security measures have been taken. “You have to look at every threat as serious. I obviously can’t go into detail about what will be done, but there will be precautions,” she said. A patrolman was on duty out side the Ganassi race shop all day Tuesday. By Tuesday, however, Marlin said the hate mail had slowly turned to messages of support. “I didn’t look at the computer, but I heard it did have some pretty bad stuff on it,” he said. “Today, I heard it was all reversed. The calls I got, there wasn’t a negative call from anybody.” Like Marlin, Wallace has been shaken by The Intimidator’s death. “He and I were about as close friends as you can get in our sport, with the competition and all that goes along with it,” said Wallace, who avoided the sliding cars in Sunday’s race and fin ished third. “I just keep on run ning that last lap in my mind and keep saying to myself, ‘Man, if I’d just been able to give him a little tap from the rear ... that could have meant all the difference in the world.’ It’s just a helpless feeling I have.” Marlin agreed with NASCAR’s decision to go on with the race in Rockingham, N.C., on Sunday. “Dale would want everybody to go and give it 100 percent,” he said. “In part, I dread it. But, once you’re in the car, nobody is mess ing with you. Dale had been doing this since he was a kid, and so have I. 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