Kyle Busch's chilling message after final NASCAR win a painful ending for mourning fans

Twenty-five years ago, then-NASCAR president Mike Helton stood in front of the entire world in the Daytona International Speedway media center and announced the unthinkable.

"We've lost Dale Earnhardt."

Those words — that press conference — are burned into every NASCAR fan's brain. We can still hear the cameras clicking. We can still see Helton's face. We can still feel the pain, and the loss, and the anger.

It was a seismic moment, for all the wrong reasons. It changed the sport forever.