Earnhardt's Funeral Is Tomorrow

Dale Earnhardt's funeral will be held Thursday in Charlotte's largest church. The service will be closed to the public, but will be televised live nationwide.

Thousands of fans continued to stream to Earnhardt's team headquarters, leaving a 150-foot-long trail of mementos and tributes to the late racing champion.

The state police estimated that 10,000 mourners stopped by on Monday, and the turnout was just as steady today.

Employees were all back at work at Dale Earnhardt Inc., and the team's three drivers were inside the shop somberly preparing for this weekend's race, the Dura-Lube 400 at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham. The Daytona winner Michael Waltrip, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Steve Park, who all drive cars owned by Earnhardt Inc., will drive in the race.

Earnhardt's family was at the Mooresville complex, too, planning the funeral.

Services for Earnhardt will be held at Calvary Church, which seats 5,800 on three levels and has huge video screens inside. ''Because it is impossible to accommodate the tremendous outpouring of support from those who followed Dale, we are unable to open the service to the public,'' Nascar said in a statement.

The service will be broadcast live on Fox Sports Net.

Earnhardt was killed on the last turn of the last lap Sunday in the Daytona 500, slamming into a concrete wall.