The Last Time No. 3 Won a Pole Award February 21, 2014 Videos With all eyes on Austin Dillon winning the Daytona 500 Pole Award this week in the famed No. 3 we thought it might be interesting to look back at the last time the famed No. 3 was on a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole. It was August 10, 1996 at Watkins Glen Speedway and driven by the late Dale Earnhardt who at the time was suffering from a broken sternum suffered in a crash at Talladega Superspeedway.
