NASCAR dropped an awesome "thanks for saving our legend" gift over the weekend... donating tickets to the first responders at Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s plane crash -- and seems they loved the gesture!
44-year-old Junior was involved in a fiery plane wreck last week, where he, his wife, his daughter and two pilots miraculously survived when their aircraft went down in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Everyone involved in the accident thanked the town's first responders for making sure they all got out OK ... and as a present, NASCAR gave them tix to Saturday night's Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.