Couldn’t agree more!

Same here!

I miss the Dale Sr days....

I love when they bring on anyone from DEI days regardless of their side or story. Those were the days, those guys had the fire and grit. Need more of that in Nascar today

This is a great podcast to learn the history of the sport and all the little things. Dale has had some heavy hitters from the DEI days on the show. Recommend Tony Eury Jr, Steve Park & Ty Norris’s episodes especially.

@@scotthoughton5368 thank you

I love that Junior now takes blame for it and admits he was arrogant and thought he knew more to than others, takes a human being to admit they are wrong and regretful

@@vintvarner16 it shows growth as a person

Sterling Marlin too

Happens a lot. At Hendrick, it was two different shops, with the 24 and 48 in one shop and the 5 and 88 were in the other. Dale Jr's fortunes only got better at Hendrick after they switched and the 88 was put with the 48. RCR was famous for Dale Sr not wanted a teammate and almost refused to work with Mike Skinner. Other teams are the same way, with the possible exception of Penske, where I am not sure The Captain would have put up with it.

You should listen to the SiriusXM Speedway Legends interview of Robert Yates where he talked about not wanting to become a two-car team because he didn't want to share information. It's eye-opening. And Dale Sr. was never a fan of his teammate Mike Skinner. He didn't want to have to cooperate or share with anyone, really, other than the team he owned. The DEI cars were juggernauts on plate tracks because that's what Dale Sr. wanted. He got together with Richard Childress and Andy Petree to develop the "RAD" engine (Richard, Andy, Dale) that dominated back then.

It takes some serious drafting to get these slow ass cars up to 190s

@@jaffleyfifteen5912 I don't care how much faster the drafting speeds are compared to single car runs. The pole speed of 180MPH at the plate tracks is a joke. Another reason I hate modern nascar. If they won't let them go 230ish, the pole speed should be at least in the 195-198 range.

@@archieshuford9534 do you think Larson or Preece live if they hit going 230?

What do you mean? They still do actual drafting at the superspeedways

​​@@archieshuford9534 dude they have never let the cars go that fast, there were only a few years where the cars were able to run 200-plus miles an hour without the restrictor-plate and because the cars flipping a lot they put the restrictor plates on, they have used restrictor plates or governed down intakes for close to 40 years now, so I don't know what you mean by you hate modern NASCAR, also just because of the nature and shape and everything of a stock car NASCAR the cars have no stability at really high speeds like that, now granted today's cars with their downforce numbers and everything would have a ton more stability at those kinds of speeds compared to even in the early 2000s, but still if they ran those kinds of speeds everybody would have to be so damn careful around each other in order not to cause crashes that the racing would be boring as hell

I believe he interviewed Punch several years back. I believe they talked about the time he saved Rusty Wallace's life.

@@sonnydog830 and I think he also talked about the Jerry Nadeau crash and how bad it was to mess up his whole career.

Yup this interview should be in the archives about a year or so ago.

Randy - go back through the old episodes on any podcast platform. They had Dr. Jerry Punch on last year or year before.

He did that interview a year or so ago

The convertible ones on the beach.

You new here? Dale Jr has always been like this. The glasses he's worn since his concussions, the beard length kind of comes and goes, and the hat depends how new it is. It is just Dale being Dale.

Every Nascar driver wears hats