Who keeps hitting the bleep button unnecessarily

When is Dale Jr. gonna go race a Crown Vic in the Freedom 500 at the Freedom Factory? I bet Larry Mac can hook him up with an invite. Tony Stewart said it was the most fun he has had in a race car in years! LOVED Jr's tire compound debate with that 15 year old kid BTW. LOL

I love hearing Jr talk about fatherhood. It’s so awesome

Who got drunk and passed out on the BEEP button? lol

The excitement and energy that the CBS music brought to the race in like 1995-1997, followed by Ken Squier’s voice, was perfect. You knew life was good when u had a cbs race on a Sunday

Thanks for putting chapters in the full episodes - really helps!

Its amazing how bad Nascar has cut it's own throat . I long for the nascar i once loved. It just breaks my heart .

A new standard?! Denny and Joey racing for the win with 80 something laps to go? That statement came from the booth. One driver lead all but 3 laps of the race! Id be looking for a different standard!!

Make North Wilkesboro the July 4th weekend race. That's a camping party race weekend guaranteed to sell out every year.

To fix short tracks, to fix road courses, to fix not being able to pass anywhere, you’ve got to have more “options” than just tires. You’ve got to have shock options and spring options. You’ve got to have gearing options. Give the crew chiefs the opportunity to find a winning combination and the variations of setup and strategy will return, and we’ll get back to the racing we had in the 90s and early 2000s.

Speaking of practice sessions. I used to love going on practice days at Indy and Chicagoland and it’s just cool watching the cars coming and going out of the garage for that hour, and hearing about adjustments they are making, what’s working, what’s not working..etc. it did build storylines

Dale getting tough on the tire debate sounds like his dad. He sounds like a conversation his dad would have with someone about tires around 42-47min mark

Standard for short track racing with no passing for the lead? Right.

Dale's breakdown of the tv coverage field introduction is spot on. He is an absolute blessing to still have around this sport. I pray that he can effect NASCAR as much as possible.

I loved, back in the day, going to practice at Darlington. 1. It was free. 2. It was more relaxed, lots of time to take a look at lots of different teams. 3. A good check-in on your favorite driver.

I've been telling my grandson you were heading into the way things were in the 80's & fans LOVED the races. My late husband had a porch full of 7 & 8 year olds to listen to him yelling at the t.v. rooting for Dale Sr. We went to 1 race Talladega 2000 & he flipped out lol. Keep up the incredible work you're doing & give the fans back their races!! Adam is 15 & stays home from vacations to watch 😅

I will say in my many years of watching Nascar Wilkesboro has unique lines to watch. Give it one of Richmonds races.

Why is it so hard for Goodyear and NASCAR to come up with a tire that will wear out in about 50 laps. Everyone got so hyped up over that soft compound tire in North wilkesboro. It didn't come close to wearing like they thought it would.

Jr was watching a different race 😂

the random bleeps when nobody's cussing gets me every time! 😂

Fighting in Nascar is part of the sport.Just like the hot dog and beer at the track. Don’t matter who wins the fight. I was wondering would Stenhouse do the same if say it was Tony Stewart instead of Kyle. Just wondering.

I feel like The New North Wilkesboro, and The New Atlanta, are two of the most exciting tracks on the circuit now.

I remember the days between Hoosier and Goodyear

Track was great… Cars and package sucked. Option/soft tire did not do what was intended

Best podcast dude on the planet… Your dad would be proud dot I’m gonna get something to your sister or wife that you would love… Lumina

We just did the same thing with our daughter last night. To be so proud of your child and wanna cry but try to hold back tears is so real. Congratulations Isla on a big accomplishment and yes to see their picture in the yearbook is so much different than looking back at our old yearbooks

Homestead is the best track I have been to. Love the vibe and feel of championship weekend. There's lots of stuff going on up north in Hollywood, Florida. I was there giving tours in 2008 when Johnny Benson won the truck championship. He was walking to the media center, trophy in one hand oversized bottle of champagne in the other. A fan asked for a picture, and he looked at me and said, "Could you hold this for a minute? He handed me the trophy!!! He was not letting go of that champagne. It's one of the coolest NASCAR experiences I've ever had. Bring the championship back to Homestead!!!!!

100% agree with practice, every point you made was spot on. We NEED this every weekend!

Wilkesboro would be the perfect spot for a midweek race. Close to home and expand the schedule.

PRACTICE!!!!! on TV!! Was so cool to see the cars on track!

This popped up first on my lunch break on the patio - catching some rays and DJD - how cool you were on the stage in pics with some of those greats like Gretzky + some bballers etc - plus a pic with SJP - the style trend setter still!!! That's awesome - your ideas will be great - they're gonna love you at these new places 📸 🏒 🏀 🏁💃M in Miami : )

Re: practice, I know it’s not 1:1 but I have watched every available minute of Indy 500 practice in order to understand more about the track, racing, drivers, etc. It’s been extremely informative and has made the run up to the race that much better without feeling over saturated.

Did Jr watch the same race the rest of us did? 🤨

Jr do the ROCK next PLZ!!!!!!!!!!! Lol what y’all have done for and to wilksboro is nothing short of amazing!!!

I want speedweeks back in Daytona with the clash I want the all star race back at charlotte before the 600 weekend And I want wilkesboro back on the schedule with rockingham having some sort of trial exhibition as well.

Junior makes a good point about broadcasting races on streaming platforms as opposed to network channels. There would be no time constraints and there might even be less commercial breaks.

When you don't change the title name while scheduling the video premiere. 😂

I love the history and nostalgia JR appreciates. Went to his shop last week and you can’t help even though he’s younger, to think of the history of the sport.

Agree with the all star race going back to Charlotte. Call it nostalgia or whatever but being basically the same age as Dale and growing up in the piedmont area speed weeks at Charlotte with the All Star followed up with the 600 were special. Usually all star was first big lake weekend of the year. Spent many years in the 90s on high rock and fueled by beer the talk would inevitably turn to "let's ride to Charlotte tonight for the race". Lol sometimes we made it sometimes the beer was flowing a little too freely and we would end up watching it on TV while grilling out. But either way it was special times in the 90s and early 2000s.

Ricky is in the hall of fame now can we please pleaseee get him back on the show! Please dale!

I think NW will be a points race.

Honestly I agree, almost perfect for this car at least. I think people are expecting gen 6/COT or even gen 4 short track racing and that just won't happen with this car. Independent suspension and a transaxle as opposed to a solid rear axle makes way more of a difference than people are accounting for. According to Goodyear, they can't go much softer than this and nascar is stubborn about adding horsepower so what if we made them run a solid rear axle? Not sure if that's realistic but it would definitely cause the car to slide a bit more. Again, we are never getting short track racing like the trucks or Xfinity again but we can still get good racing I think

If you’re going to have different tire compounds then you can’t have scheduled cautions. If you put soft on early then you’d just lose your advantage at the stage break

Dale I watched that Casey Atwood interview I often wondered what happened to Casey Atwood I don't think he had a fair deal in NASCAR. I really was waiting to hear you say you would like to have him drive a race for you and the Xfinity. And I don't know if you offered him a ride for a racer 2 but it would have been appropriate for you to invite them to your racing organization. Always a friend Archie

Dale, do you still have that boxing ring? I sense a hell of a pay per view opportunity here.

Overall, we need a ’golden TATER ratio’. What's a TATER? I'm glad you asked...Tires, Aerodynamics, Track Surface, Engine, Race Rules. If NASCAR can create a rotating selection of these 5 items in a modular way, then every race would be exciting and it would keep the teams on their toes.

“That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race”

For background noise I put the 79 500 on and the build up to the green flag got me so hype, the race went from background noise to my main focus and was glued to it lol. Broadcast definitely makes a big difference.

Bring Back the ROCK 🪨!

Harvick has brought so much to the broadcast, I hope you keep the feel flowing!!!

GOAT Starting Grid broadcast was the 1993 Daytona 500. Still watch it every year the week of the Daytona 500.

Preach it Dale! You can look at things as a spectator and have a lot of good insight into this sport!

Agree about practice & viewership & engagement hypes up fans!

North Wilkesboro is amazing!

Dale on a rant is soooooooo hilarious to me.

That is fantastic your are reading to Ila, it is so important to a child learning. You might already planning on Ila someday reading a book to you when she starts reading. That is something I did with my son. Eventually I had him start reading every night to me. It was amazing how much that helped him. And it was amazing for me also.

Alex Timms has the strongest beard/mustache combo around!

"Only when I'm holding back tears"...... MAN that was an awesome comment! Good job little guy

It ain't about the Sport "NoMo", it's about the money to the sport now!

"but what's your question" 😳

I agree with Jr on the tires. It works on Indy and F1 because they are lighter, race predominately on road courses. I think Goodyear could develop a softer tire for the short tracks, but, we will see. What would happen if you put the soft on the rear and hard on the front or vice versa. That would have been an interesting test, or soft on the left side and hard on the right side. You could have tried any number of combinations to see if you could have made that pass for the lead. I hated that once the Leader got out there, no one was going to pass them.

really hit hard with homesteade been racing iracing since 2010 and can't never be so excited to go to miami your right it really is a way better to spend championship weekend

He for sure telegraphed the punch 😅😂

About the track, I agree that the repave was a success. The truck race was GREAT. I do not however necessarily agree that multiple grooves on a short track is the best for exciting racing. Watching guys run the same 2 separate lines, lap after lap after lap and cannot pass is not the same level of excitement as when every short track, including Bristol, Martinsville and Richmond, were single groove and you had to move the guy out of your way. As soon as Bristol went to a multi groove track, it absolutely killed the excitement and they’ve never been able to get it back. Remember when Richmond was nicknamed the action track? Not any more! It was the action track before they added multiple grooves. I would love to see a points race at N Wilkesboro and agree that the all star race should be at Charlotte. Tires need to be more of an aggressive swing with compound. Barely a time difference between the two options after a 100 lap run. On the tire topic, I wish nascar would do away with limiting tires. I know it’s meant to save costs and can add strategy, but pitting (or not) for fresh tires when you have them has its own strategy. I also miss the days of practice and putting it back in the teams hands.

Ken Squire was the voice of NASCAR. As a kid I would get excited just hearing him announce the starting lineup. Race day is always a good day. I'm looking forward to Dale being on Amazon and TNT.

6:38 it was the style at the time!

I’ll tell you why a hard or soft tire won’t work in Nascar, Drivers and CC’s will ALWAYS choose the softs and just deal with the wear as they go.. just like what we saw in the ASR everyone put on the softs, and realized they were the better tires, even if they made them wear faster I still think Drivers and CC’s alike would practice and plan around the wear of the tire so they’d get maximum speed and longevity from them, it would turn into the softs being the primary for the last half of the race and the hards being the starting tires, the idea that some guys would take hard and some would take softs on a restart with 10 to go is insane same with the scenario that “Larson had a bad qualifying, He’s starting on the softs to try and gain spots early, Hamlin is starting next to him in 28th and has the hards trying to extend his 1st run and hope for a caution” there might be a tiny bit of that but more often than not even guys in the back would start on hards and save those softs for late runs and the reason is Nascar has always been very different from every other series in Motorsports, different right down to the strategy that teams use, in almost all other forms like F1 for example they have the strategy of starting a race as best as possible and using softs to gain early so they don’t lose as much time to the leaders, that’s why they have Plan A,B,C and even D if they’re race plan is spoiled by not staying within a certain distance of the leader they’ll change plans mid-race and try different strategies to gain on the leader throughout the race on pace. F1 and tires is all about race pace and using tires to limit the distance to the leaders, same with most other series’ because different teams have different pace they’re capable of, in Nascar unless your a team that’s completely underfunded and just make laps every race, every car is gonna be within 1 second of eachother with lap times while their on the same tire with the same amount of laps on them, A StockCars sole design is to make them look like regular car and make them all go the same speed, in Nascar 0.100s of a second is the difference between 3rd and 12th, so everyone has the same end result with strategy, and that’s planning to gain positions late and run your fastest laps in the last quarter of the race, there are strategic plans to jump guys on pit road or the occasional alternate strategy where guys get out of sync with the field and run long in hopes for a caution, but the end result is always “Be the fastest late in the race” so what will teams do? They’ll use up all the hards and save those faster soft tires for late runs. The 2 would simply become “The First Half Regular Tires” and “The Second Half Faster Tires”. Nascar would need to add more rules like “Softs can only be used in the first 2 stages” or “Every car has to use Hards one run and softs the next run, no using the same compound on back to back runs” and then it doesn’t become an “OPTION” Tire, it becomes a new mandate on use of multiple tire compounds, and that’ll literally change nothing because everyone will still be on the same tire compound… Long comment I know, but I’m so tired of seeing “Other Series use multiple tire compounds!, Look at F1! They do it” well yes they do, But this Nascar not F1, just give the teams 1 good tire compound every race and bam, you’ve successfully fixed the problem. Nascar and Goodyear give yourself a pat on the back, you’ve finally done something right.

Dirty Air full

Credit to Goodyear for trying with the tire but they need to go further. I think they will get it eventually. The multiple tire compounds is a good idea and will lead to good strategy and racing I believe.

DIRTY AIR FULL!!!!

whoever cut the audio for this weeks podcast really messed this up lol constant markers, wrong audio for the ad, this was rough

Junior selling hard on a race track where 1 guy led all but 1 lap, and another guy led every lap of the open...

I saw Richard Childress on video WITH audio , saying that if Stenhouse touches Bush's car that he himself would give him a ( Quote ) Old school beating .

Have they tried the old tires on a special rim with a single lug nut? To try to help the short track package

Yeah, the All-Star race needs to go back to Charlotte to stay! Regarding practice sessions - I also agree, There's plenty of stuff happening in practice that many car-guys would LOVE to see!

The truck race was maybe the best race I’ve seen all year. The cup race was a one line right train after the initial restart shuffled out.

I think they're going to have to do the red and yellows at some point because with the dats sharing, everybody will just copy and paste how to drive them, just like they do now. For NASCAR races to be better, they need more variables and having primary and alternate tire sets adds a big one. Not just one set tho. I'd say 1/3 of the sets at every race, that way they have to be user at some point, but you have to decide when. I don't believe they'll be used at the same time if there's actually a difference in speeds and the reds have more fall off because you won't know when there's gonna be a long run. Make it so the reds are a little faster, then fade 50-75%% more than the primary. After about 1/3 of a fuel run depending on how hard you drive them. So you can gain early, but if you run too hard, you'll really pay for it as the run goes. At least give it a go on the road courses for a season and see what happens.

When referring to the "Fans", what they want to see and experience, from one venue to another. I wonder how much consideration is given to those of "Us", who spend the week/weekend camping, clamping, at the track? Lots of things to do and see, within an easy 50 miles from PIR.

Totally agree with Jr on the 1 set of softs. Absolutely everyone will wait til the last run to use them

Wish my granddaddy could have seen it. I hope it stays around. Points race is needed.

It’s fun reading to your kids in different voices. My boys still remember me doing other voices for Thomas the Tank Engine and Dr. Seuss books.

Are you going to race this year at Wilkesboro the fall race with the late models I thought I heard you say something about it but I can’t remember just maybe throw it out there one day and because you’re the man and I hope that Amazon the things you going to take over Broadcasting I think it’s gonna be awesome. He can’t take an awesome guy. You know it’s going to be awesome. Your broadcast was awesome. I think Dale Junior is the awesomeness driver ever him and his dad. I love his dad.

Can we talk about the Sonoma racing surface being repaved?

I think they need to go back to an old school formula. In the "golden era" teams had different cars for short tracks, intermediates, superspeedways, and road courses. I just think they need a dedicated car just for short track racing. The next gen is great everywhere else. But we need a new car for short tracks.

Any thoughts on mandating drivers to remain at the track for the duration of races? Maybe have drivers do some TV segments during the broadcast or make some trackside fan appearances during the race?

How about using the All-Star race for new things (maybe like they are doing with North Wilkesboro now probably), like if they plan to bring Rockingham back, let that be an All-Star race like North Wilkesboro. Add North Wilkesboro to regular season, remove the roval or street course. Then if Rockingham works add that or scratch it if not. Also, take the time to try new things like they did with the 2 tire compounds. Figure it would be a good part of the schedule to test and try things to improve the sport. Just my opinion though.

In my 20ish years of watching racing I have watched practice maybe 5 times

Amen keep Wilksboro ❤

The only thing that I'd like to see is a good wet weather tire so there wouldn't be any rain delays because I get amped up for a race, then it gets postponed and by the next day I lose the energy or have to go back to work. I get over it, but that sucks, just not as fun.

Truck practice proves your point. A new driver was fastest in practice. So more people tuned in to see if it was a fluke.

NASCAR needs to put all of the cars on the track at NWS under current rules and packages before making long term decisions regarding the future of the track as a reoccurring points race.

O MY.... He called you an old man...lol..Option Tire...lol

If jr was running NASCAR it would b back to it's hayday within 5 years

Dale, you are absolutely right about the allstar race needs a grander stage! I think Nascar wont give it a points race yet because, NASCAR is still seeking an OVAL TRACK IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA! Nobody has said a word about any sparks or updates regarding FONTANA YET? I think everything is hindging on that circumstance now!

Nascar has forgotten the fans they won't last

Definitely saved that track cant wait to see points races there an seeing the track change over the yrs to come

I get what your saying Dale but as a fan if you have a 200 lap race and your tires could go 100 laps with barely any fall off sorry but that leads to a boreing race and especially if you provide a tire that's supposed to fall off and it goes 100 laps with barely any fall off you have a problem nobody wants to see a guy lead every lap there is no parity that's boreing no matter what you want or think about the pavement that all star race was boreing period.

Okay what track date would you use

We do need a points race at Wilkesboro! Nascar needs to let the teams build the last gen car for short tracks! That would be a better show than this new car gives us!

Jr saying that the All-Star race was a good short-track race is gonna help kill short-tracks. If people think that was a good one, they certainly won’t want to watch an average one.