From the AP via Nando Net: “Dale Earnhardt was medically cleared today to race after tests failed to show why the star driver fell asleep during last weekend’s Southern 500. NASCAR did not say what caused Earnhardt’s sleepiness or what Dr. Charles Branch of Bowman Gray Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., had found. The racing body said questions about Earnhardt’s condition would be answered at a news conference Friday. The 46-year-old driver received approval to compete in an announcement at Richmond International Raceway, site of Saturday night’s Exide Select Batteries 400. “If the doctors say he’s good to go, then he’s good to go as far as we’re concerned,” said NASCAR spokesman Kevin Triplett, adding he didn’t know the results of the tests Earnhardt has undergone.” See the story at Earnhardt Get’s OK.. and the story at NASCAR Online (9-4-97)
