IN CAR CAMERA - DALE EARNHARDT JR DRIVING MAZDA MX-5 AT MARTINSVILLE

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10 ай бұрын

Dale Earnhardt Jr jumped into a Mazda MX-5 at Martinsville Speedway as part of the test to see of the MX-5 Cup should race on the half mile oval.
Dale Jr had a blast. This is the raw in car video. I posted another video with his interview about the drive.

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@masonhoeper9347 10 ай бұрын

I never thought I'd watch a video of Dale Jr on a short track oval driving a Miata, but here we are..

@MotorsportJunkie15 10 ай бұрын

Bobby Labonte as well. Two absolute legends driving MX-5s

@MrChaosmar 10 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking I can’t believe I’m watching this

@joshuak8335 10 ай бұрын

Dale Jr is really supporting the racing community across all series, and I love it.

@hotlavaaaa 10 ай бұрын

"Hey man, I think this thing is down like 4 cylinders." - Dale Jr, probably

@dchawk81 10 ай бұрын

Also Dale: "Needs more grip."

@chris8video 10 ай бұрын

@@dchawk81I wish I had gotten a picture of the tires...literally 8 inches wide!

@robertbragg1469 10 ай бұрын

That was badass, you can tell when he starts to figure it out

@imaPirate420 10 ай бұрын

Like turn ...1

@onethumbks 10 ай бұрын

For those who haven’t had the privilege to see this series, you owe it to yourself. Races are streamed live on KZfaq. It’s the best racing series in the world.

@wpflesh6510 10 ай бұрын

Already has better short track package than the cup cars

@powersteer 10 ай бұрын

Mx 5 iracing is so fun!

@pepsibottleq 10 ай бұрын

No shit

@racegrubb2152 10 ай бұрын

@@powersteerI saw them at the Daytona road course and it was awesome racing

@sergeantmasson3669 10 ай бұрын

@wpflesh6510, according to who, you? You're an expert, how? FYI, no automaker builds any NASCAR race cars/trucks. Not even the engines.

@onethumbks 10 ай бұрын

And all you have to do is look at the car for the answer. No front splitter and all ends of the car are off the ground. People have been saying that only for a decade or more.

@patrickbreeze9500 10 ай бұрын

Looks like fun! Have a Miata and have driven at a bunch of road courses, but never thought about what it would be like at a short track. Dale Jr is driving the wheels off the thing!

@TheRespectful1 10 ай бұрын

Faster and faster every lap he sunk into that seat as soon as he figured the car out ! 😊

@DaleCarterDrives 10 ай бұрын

Around Lap 4 :-) Quick hands at 1:46... Lap 3?

@rcr640 10 ай бұрын

This is what I call watching a symphony…he’s so natural on the shifts. Through the corner. Getting speed off the corner and through the straight-aways. Love dale and his ability to drive short tracks.

@e2motorsports257 10 ай бұрын

It would be great to see a all star racing series in these cars

@TEC_Stuff 10 ай бұрын

As someone who has done a handful of Mazda MX-5 race weekends with Skip Barber racing in the past, I would recognize that engine sound anywhere. Great to see a pro enjoying the limits of tire adhesion at such a great track. It’s even better when you are able to stalk someone’s rear bumper!

@jeffreyrose7823 10 ай бұрын

Awesome 👍 Dale Jr Driving a MX-5, I Owned a "90" with 150000mi. When I bought it, put a Street/Strip Clutch in it, and 50's all round with light weight Wheels, What a Blast to Drive, Go Dale! Drive One in MX-5 Cup Race!

@lowcountryantiques3696 10 ай бұрын

The Sun-drop suit and helmet makes it that much cooler

@NCFREEMAN 10 ай бұрын

He was getting it. Had to be fun driving such a different car.

@TR2zR 10 ай бұрын

Man seeing him drive a natural wheel without his original hand to wheel technique makes me wonder if it’s OG Dale or the new Dale🧐

@rbhoward9123 10 ай бұрын

Enjoyed watching Dale Jr. Behind the wheel at a track he's known to love driving at. Makes him the right guy to test another type of race car. Never thought it'd be a Mazda ! Cool footage.. especially that pass after coming out of that turn.. AWESOME !!!

@warrenself 10 ай бұрын

More stock than any Cup Car in decades. I’d watch this series at Martinsville.

@geofframsey9193 2 ай бұрын

Tbh, knowing how competitive this class is… these cars and track are a good match watching this.

@flyingfortressrc1794 10 ай бұрын

Jr can drive anything. 😁

@cliff4695 10 ай бұрын

Would have to disagree with you on this one

@jeffreyrose7823 10 ай бұрын

He faster as went along, I know He was Digging it!

@cindyscott54 10 ай бұрын

When he gave up driving the American LeMans Corvette, I never... in my wildest... imagined him in an MX5 Cup Mazda.... NEVER MIND AT MARTINSVILLE!! I hope they race there & I hope he can run some of the other MX5 races in the series. Thanks, this was FUN!

@jbeachley18 10 ай бұрын

An MX-5 Cup race here would be chaos. I'd love it

@DLRacing 10 ай бұрын

I heard about this "test" on the Dale jr download, actually pretty cool to see it..

@SW-fu4jj 10 ай бұрын

MAN! That looks so much fun!

@FOSTERSFARMGARAGETV 10 ай бұрын

If i was Dale jr this is exactly what i would be doing ! HAVE FUN MY MAN! Thanks for sharing the Vlogs!

@edruggiero1648 10 ай бұрын

With all the light coming in from the open roof and this camera angle you get a much better view of the track. If NASCAR could figure out how to replicate it during a race it would be so sick

@TheWildChildJr 10 ай бұрын

i remember running a 24 hour race in iracing with these things at martinsville, it was the stupidest, most tormented fun ive ever had.

@DizzyD850 10 ай бұрын

Moonhead does that race every year around Thanksgiving on Twitch. Raises money for Toys for Tots. I have donated the last 2 years and will again this year.

@user-xk7he7qd2q 10 ай бұрын

A typical MX5 Cup race has 35 plus cars in the starting grid. Imagine that at Martinsville.

@pamelamaloy9778 10 ай бұрын

What a blast that was, just like riding Shotgun ❣️ Dale yeah❣️🥰

@ncphotos 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@Chirp_Fest 10 ай бұрын

Confirms that iRacing is bringing the mx-5 over to ovals for official racing

@jeffe1779 10 ай бұрын

This looks fun as heck! It’s awesome to see him go from driving one hand to using both once the tires went away

@evenjon17 10 ай бұрын

Dale Jr. was rolling into the corner smooth and got up off the corner like a bullet!

@sightsandsouthingsounds 10 ай бұрын

Dale Jr working with the guy who played him in the movie (Chad McCumbee). Pretty cool to see this

@glenmallory9982 7 ай бұрын

That sounds so nice.

@miichaelneri4687 10 ай бұрын

One of the best handily cars you can drive on the track. Never saw an MX-5 race that was boring.

@DC322 10 ай бұрын

Dale Jr. in a MX-5 Cup Car. Twice as nice. Jeff Gordon did the Porsche Cup last year. Jimmie Johnson indycar racing. Always step out of the box.

@timothykirkman7097 10 ай бұрын

need this class on the cars tour dale

@rcwbud52 10 ай бұрын

That is too cool!

@user-io9jj6wd7e 10 ай бұрын

That Mazda sounds fucking awesome❤😊

@jacobhollenbeck6816 10 ай бұрын

You can't see that grin through that helmet, except you kinda can.

@DRBarber88 10 ай бұрын

Martinsville looks so much bigger from this perspective than it does on TV. Get it Dale Jr! Looks like a blast

@izzdin6228 10 ай бұрын

From this POV the track looks mighty intimidating. Pretty deceptive for a half mile bullring.

@dchawk81 10 ай бұрын

That's because he's in a Miata instead of the family trucksters of Cup. 😃

@rjai4890 10 ай бұрын

Because it takes 11 seconds to go down 1 straight 😂

@trickster6831 10 ай бұрын

Sequential transmissions are so bad ass... And Jr. Drove the SHIT out of it!!

@keeginlablance859 10 ай бұрын

Thing a a fucking beast my guy! Good build! 🤘🏻.

@austinhenry069 10 ай бұрын

PLEASE, PLEASE do an mx5 oval race..

@Sinflux420 10 ай бұрын

Dale Jr’s the man!!

@TwoAcresandaMule 10 ай бұрын

THIS IS GOING TO BE EPIC

@DJDouglasWarden 10 ай бұрын

That sounds badass

@markhatcher4325 10 ай бұрын

Junior was wedged all up in there🤘😜🤘🏁🏁

@lateApexGraphics 10 ай бұрын

Could tell he was getting thru the corners better when he did his downshift prior to entry.

@oldschoolgamesstories 10 ай бұрын

I’ll bet that was fun!

@teresagoodwin7458 10 ай бұрын

What a NATURAL GOD GIVEN TALENT 🙏🏻🙏🏻🏁🏆🏁💞🤗💞🏁🏆🏁🙏🏻🙏🏻

@Carlovingbozo8 10 ай бұрын

Dale sr. Given talent lol

@mattanderson9375 10 ай бұрын

I will be trying this immediately, in I racing....

@chris8video 10 ай бұрын

find me on iracing when there's a good hosted race!!!!

@kevemmert 10 ай бұрын

Gawd that reminds of my Legends Car

@ZPaul_ 10 ай бұрын

Ngl Mx-5’s on Martinsville would be kinda dope.

@purplecow5150 10 ай бұрын

awesome

@Ghostmotorfinger 10 ай бұрын

Totally Badass!.

@dirtberger4533 10 ай бұрын

SICK 🏁🏁🏁🏁👍😀.

@outdoormatt5188 10 ай бұрын

💥💪💯

@teresagoodwin7458 10 ай бұрын

Dale you're so much like your Daddy and Granddaddy Ralph!! You can drive the wheels off of anything you get in to drive!! That looked like a fun ride!! I know you loved every minute of it!!👍😁💞🤗💞 You will excel behind the wheel of any race car🎉🏁🏆🏁💞🤗💞 It comes so naturally to you because you inherited the best of the best genetics from Granddaddy Ralph and your Dad THE INTIMIDATOR 🏁🏆🏁💞🤗💞👍🌟🌟🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@MarkMeadows90 10 ай бұрын

I wouldn't mind seeing those Miatas race like, at Atlanta Motor Speedway, North Wilkesboro, or even Darlington.

@DaleCarterDrives 10 ай бұрын

This video shows one of the main differences between elite drivers and the rest of us. Around 1:46 (Lap3?), Dale finds the traction limit and corrects with quick hands. In about two more laps, he has the car figured out. The rest of us need more laps... a LOT more.

@JD_Spencer 10 ай бұрын

Whoa deep into the corner, there's a big diff in driving this and driving a stock car.

@nathanstebenne3784 10 ай бұрын

When mooncar meets the real world😊

@EarlUpton-fv8nq 10 ай бұрын

cell phone holder on the dash so cool

@battlestar7779 10 ай бұрын

What we all wanna know Jr., is, did your Dad teach you how to accelerate and brake appropriately, or, was it self-taught/instinctual ? . Thanks for sharing!

@thachuck5123 10 ай бұрын

I thought that bikes were racing around the shop all day

@brianbiggs3484 10 ай бұрын

Cool 👍👍🇨🇦✌️🇨🇦✌️👍

@gavinvalentino6002 10 ай бұрын

Yee haw.

@Devil3R 10 ай бұрын

So cool. I have him doing 22s..wonder what the trucks do?

@TwoAcresandaMule 10 ай бұрын

pole was 19.79 this year

@Manny4.6 10 ай бұрын

22s still pretty quick

@skiinian3314 10 ай бұрын

Not bad for ~160bhp…

@Devil3R 10 ай бұрын

@@skiinian3314 Think they're a bit more.

@alexflores5020 10 ай бұрын

They’re sealed 181hp (crank) engines. The exact same engine that comes in an MX-5 right from the showroom floor. Special little cars with legitimate MotorSports engineering from inception with things like double wishbone front, advanced multilink rear, heavy use of aluminum construction underneath and even an engine oiling system capable of maintaining steady state oil pressure up to 1.4G cornering. In another video regarding this testing Dale mentioned the MX-5 Cup was one second behind the Next Gen cars. THAT is amazing. Also worth noting this is with him behind the wheel. He admitted there was time left on the table but that it would be hard for him to find it that day. An avid MX-5 Cup driver with some seat time to learn an oval will be able to get the car moving faster as would Dale with more seat time in an MX-5 Cup.

@eeeeee8565 10 ай бұрын

Jr is playing with his powerwheel

@DilynHorton 10 ай бұрын

i wonder how much of a staggered "oval setup" they tried on it, or still on a road configuration?

@trenawawrzyniak4397 10 ай бұрын

I want to know who was driving the car that pulled in front of him ? And what were the numbers for his lap times?

@codyC423 5 ай бұрын

This is hilarious, he's driving this Spec Miata like its a late model

@stoopid_roofer6447 10 ай бұрын

Lol! What the hell??! We have to be living in some sort of alternate universe, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist!... this is weird! ... Dale Earnhardt Jr... making laps in a Mazda Miata...at Martinsville. Lol!!! Okay then!

@RobRoane 10 ай бұрын

Surely those things don’t come stock with the sequential shifter?

@crcracing7409 10 ай бұрын

Gotta get away from shifting on all ovals regardless of the car. Looks like he is having a blast though.

@Samanosuke1138 10 ай бұрын

Shit got me chubbin’

@kentwright5346 10 ай бұрын

Never saw a downshift mid-corner.

@DustyPeppers-ct1kq 10 ай бұрын

Left handed short track drivers have a natural advantage. 😂

@haberbo 10 ай бұрын

Who'd he pass?

@bhp2488 10 ай бұрын

Oh look, no aero-push or dirty air causing Dale's car to shove up the track.

@evannuh-koo-la4054 10 ай бұрын

Yea, because there's no other cars on the track

@warrenself 10 ай бұрын

@@evannuh-koo-la4054Less aero dependency = less dirt air complaints.

@xavierdiaz4622 10 ай бұрын

Why isn’t this a race on iracing yet?

@chris8video 10 ай бұрын

It would be a great official race!!! There's been some one-off hosted ones though!

@Chargen69 10 ай бұрын

06:55 looks like those guys need to learn how not to touch the brake petal, jr could definitely give them a lesson on that

@blakebrewer1308 10 ай бұрын

Can I try ? Pretty plz. I won't let ya down! Promise!

@wormymachine6386 10 ай бұрын

Dale I would watch you race a bicycle.

@pizzeria188 10 ай бұрын

Woop that was cool... jr... Bring a Mazda to NASCAR...

@sergeantmasson3669 10 ай бұрын

@pizzeria188, Mazda MX-5 is not USA made.

@nicolassanchez8318 10 ай бұрын

Lap times please. That thing was fast and loose in middle

@chrisdadigger1018 10 ай бұрын

Doesn’t look like he has a lot of legroom

@harryfatcat 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like a chainsaw but it looks like fun!

@tmklunk 10 ай бұрын

What’s this about? Why is he doing this?

@jeremysimpson1432 10 ай бұрын

It’s called having fun. You should try it

@tmklunk 10 ай бұрын

@@jeremysimpson1432 went right over your head

@sergeantmasson3669 10 ай бұрын

NOT USA built. Mazda MX-5 cars are all built in Hiroshima Japan.

@josephhradil86 10 ай бұрын

And…?

@blakewheeler7066 10 ай бұрын

Cup engines sound sooooooooooo much better

@chrisdadigger1018 10 ай бұрын

Too bad they weren’t s2000s instead.

@marktucker208 10 ай бұрын

Something is rattling and it’s pissing me off

@donaldtolbert7804 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ralphwatten2426 10 ай бұрын

The shifter should be up on the steering column like other real race cars. I like the idea of the Mazda as a race car on an oval track but it shouldn't be just Mazdas on the course at the same time. I hope NASCAR is looking at this so that car manufacturers can get back into racing. P.S. I like the idea of brake lights on the cars too so that the car behind can plan ahead and that race officials can see when a driver is brake checking.

@dillonpierce7869 10 ай бұрын

Proper race cars still have h pattern manuals...... Like all the spec Miatas. Which used to be the street Miatas that's where they all went. 🙈

@BlueCJ 10 ай бұрын

For the brakes I think they have SMT data for that so they know when a driver does something intentionally