The Dale Jr. Download - 22 - New Hampshire with Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Episode Date: July 15, 2013

Never-before-told stories of life on the road by Dale Earnhardt Jr., plus a recap of New Hampshire. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is Dale Jr. and you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Have you ever stumbled across photos you haven't seen in years and thought, now that was a good time? We do it with Junior today. The Dell Jr. Download starts now. Welcome to the Dell Jr. Download here on Dirty Moe Radio. I'm Mike Davis here with T.J. Majors, spotted of the number 88 team. How's it going, TJ?

It's going great. Our boy Taylor Zardzer is still making his way back from New Hampshire. So he was working with the performance racing network again this weekend on Pit Road. Did a wonderful job. Yeah, he must be doing pretty good. Yeah, they had him back. So he's not in. So, TJ, we'll try to steer this ship on our own, as bad as that may be.

We'll see how it goes. We've got a lot to talk about yesterday's race, certainly, and even Saturday's nationwide series race with Regan Smith getting in a little bit of a dust-up with Elliot Sadler that carried over into the garage just a little bit. We'll talk about that. Also, we've got Dale Jr. like you've never heard him before. TJ and I recorded a segment a few days ago. I think you guys are really going to enjoy it.

It's coming up in a few minutes. So first, we were in New Hampshire this weekend with Dale Jr. Both of us, TJ. And what can I say? It just wasn't a very good race for us. I mean, 14th place finish. Couldn't really pass yesterday. I know I was standing there with juniors.

He climbed out of the car. And the first thing that LaTart said to him was, well, that was a battle. Yeah, it was definitely a battle. It was a hard-fought race. I don't think anyone realized how far people could go on their left side tires. And we found out about a stop too late. You know, they took the risk of stop before we did, and they just stuck with it, and we had enough cautions where they could just kind of keep their track position.

Let's just go ahead and get into yesterday's race. It was kind of a tell of two halves for the 88 team. Things were good, not great early on. Dale Jr. had his second best qualifying effort of the season. He started third. Here's what Dale Jr. and Steve LaTartre sounded like during the third caution at lap 78. Caution. Wrench up high and turn one somewhere here. They had just done a four-tire pit stop, TJ.

Things were looking okay. He was running fourth, fifth, six. Yeah, we were right there. What were your thoughts at that point? Just track position. We had it already and just, you know, get through the restarts and get single file. And he's really good there when you get single file in the runs. You know, he's one of his better tracks. and I think once we get sorted out, he's definitely one of the better drivers there to find a little bit of speed. You know, he's really good at short track.

The 88 team took two tires on lap 124 and restarted P2, but they just couldn't stay there. Here's Dale Jr. Just keep doing the best you're getting to drive it straight. I'm so that left rear is probably not helpless. Outside. All clear. There I go, bud. Just keep doing what you're doing.

The 42 has the other ones all bottlenecked up. We've got a nice, just get a little bit of a run here. We're going to do a two-stop strategy. Everything will be good. I got a lot of questions on Twitter about what is this shearing that he's talking about. What do you got, TJ? It's just the right rear just is not grabbing the racetrack. It's just sliding across it and basically just not being, not working.

So like he stands in the gas pedal to come off the corner. The car, when you're staying in the gas pedal, that right rear tire has to work. Otherwise, it has to have grip. Otherwise, it's just going to slide across the racetrack. And that's what he means by shearing. Basically just means that right rear is not grabbing and just basically shearing across it. You know, it's like just cutting it off.

Like a, it's just cutting the tire off and not grabbing. Gotcha. It's just not what you want. Debris brought out the fifth caution at lap 155, and here was the discussion. The spinning up off probably was more than the left for a tire and the fact that we really didn't help that issue. I don't think we'd be any worse.

It's closed. 10 4 on the feedback. Well, buddy, I think we're going to have to take 4 here. I think most are going to take rights, but we're on rights. So I just think we have to take 4. I just don't think rights again. It would be all right. Our check position, I think we'll be in trouble on the restart.

I mean, if you take two tires before, you clearly got to take 4 on this stop, right, T.J.? Yeah, that's what nobody really knew how long you could go on left, and it was just we were in a really good position to be on the right strategy to keep. You know, normally if there's only a few guys that take two or, you know, You get four, you can knife back through them pretty easily, but that definitely was not the case yesterday at all. There was a slew of cautions, actually, over the span of about 50 or 60 laps. The eighth caution came out at lap 218, and this was right on the edge of the fuel window. I mean, they were kind of tossing and turning and trying to discuss on whether they should come there or not.

It was right on the edge. They just put on four new tires, 16 laps earlier, so the Tart goes with a fuel-only strategy on the team's final pit stop. Caution's out, caution's out. It'll be clear when you get there. How's it driving right there, Buck. Can you tell? It's a little bit tight in the center. I was right up in the guys. Gas only, gas only, gas only, leave on me. Five, four, three, two, one, gas only. It's not going to be long. Hold up. All right, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, what out?

Six, one outside the 99, 46, 46. Save some gas riding around right here. Save gas. High gears. Say it'd be all you can. All right. All right. When a bunch of the president stayed out, we can make it from here. Just keep saving us some gas. That's our plan. This is our strategy.

We're going with it from here. Obviously, the strategy didn't work out because the 11 cautions. I mean, it did two things. It allowed the guys who were short on gas to really stretch the mileage. It also gave the field a bunch of lucky dogs. And what the lucky dogs would do was just bolt on new tires when all the other guys couldn't. We were on really old tires, too. And we're on really old tires.

All these lucky dogs that have been in crash. and wrecked and, you know, band-aids on their car. Now here they come with four tires, and now they're making passes, and they're getting back into the top ten. I can see where Stevie only did, you know, only did fuel and then stayed out because you might lose one spot or two spots to guys,

but it's better than pitting, and them guys seeing you pit, and then you don't know what they're doing. You don't, it's just a ritz. It's a gamble every time. Yeah. They could stay out, and then you lose five spots from cars that stay out

rather than one or two from a lucky dog or a guy that has tires. So it's just kind of guess. I mean, it's just, it's hard. So Dale Jr. finishes 14th. He's still fifth in points. But I'm telling you, fifth through seventh is really close. Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch are tied for six and seventh,

and they're just two points behind junior. So it is going to get interesting over the next few weeks. Have you tried the new Dale Jr. potato chips? Are you wondering where you can find them? Today is your lucky day. Go to Dale Jr. Foods.com to see where you can find the chips in your area or place an order online. You can have them shipped right to you.

That's DaleJR Foods.com. I asked the question in the opening. Have you ever stumbled across old photos and it sparked funny stories and memories that not a lot of people know about? Well, it happened last week at Dirty Mo Acres with Dale Jr. And what came of it? I'll just listen.

All right, guys, so we're here at Dirty Mo Acres. We're hanging out. I'm here with Dale Earnhardt Jr., T.J. Majors. Have you guys ever done an interview together before? I don't think that. Yeah, probably. I don't think you have. Probably two or three.

Anyways, we're kind of hanging out, and we were looking through some old photos. We basically, through the years as we traveled the circuit, we snapped photos and, you know, document them. Basically, I just threw a bunch of old pictures in an old external hard drive and was going through them the other day. And I'm telling you, man, we got some gold in these folders here, and we have some funny stories. And the photos, the pictures I came across, Dale Jr., you'll remember this, was Graceland back in, I think it was 2000. 2007 or 2006, and I started laughing because we had this incident where one of us sat on a couch that hadn't been sat on in like 30 years. And I thought it was just a resting stop for the tourists. Never mind the velvet rope around it.

Didn't actually not. Well, we were kind of on this VIP tour. I thought that, see, when you're on a VIP tour, Velvet ropes don't mean anything, right? Because we get to go on the other side of the ropes. I thought this was one of those situations. But it wasn't because as I was sitting there relaxing the old feet. you know, the tour guy. First off, the lady was like, let me go show you where Elvis had the maid cooked a pound of baking sandwich.

And so we were walking toward the kitchen and we walked by this giant briefcase cell phone. It was like a phone in a briefcase. Took up the whole thing. And he's like, oh, that's one of the, she's like, that's one of the first portable cell phones. And the king had one. and he could call the president and whoever. Back when the president, Nixon, I think, put him on narcotics duty, made him like a civilian narcotics cop.

And so he gives him this, he's got this briefcase so he can call the president anytime he needs to. He's awesome. And it was sitting on a coffee table at a couch, and you stepped over a rope and sat down on the couch to do something on your front. phone. Yeah, probably. You were doing some PR work on your phone. I don't know, man. Our guys did.

2007, that was like next tail days. It was around. He was sending a text message or something, whatever the PR guys do when they do. Whatever it was, we're PRing. Yeah, you're PR. You're public relating on the couch. And the lady says, uh-uh, sir, can you please get up? That couch hadn't been set on in 30 years.

I don't know. Start over. In fairness, I will say that the couch was one of those like real feathery, fluffy looking couches. So even knowing all the rules, I could say that I still might have actually gone and taken a little sit on that thing. But yeah, so Marty Smith was with us.

I remember that. And I remember a couple. I think, I don't know if Bernstein was, but you guys had to do a Budweiser one night stand out on the front lawn of Graceland later that night. And you and Marty had a field day about, hey, let me tell you guys what happened

just about an hour ago. So anyway, so that's sort of akin to what happened this week where everybody's all ticked off about Justin Bieber touching the Stanley Cup. Yeah. That's similar. Stand on the logo there. We were at Graceland. And, I mean, you know, everybody there, you're at Graceland.

Everybody in the room is an Elvis fan, right? Yeah. Die hard. And so just imagine Mike sitting on the couch and everybody going, do you feel better about that now? I feel bad. I mean, she was yelling at me in front of everybody. And so I was a little embarrassed.

But then I was really embarrassed when he told, you know, the masses up there at the Budwood night stand. But it was like. it's kind of funny now, and that's why I was like chuckling the other day when I saw those pictures. I don't have a picture of me sitting on the couch. How cool would that have been? Why didn't you think to take a picture of, I mean, probably nobody sat on that couch since then. I don't think our old next tail. Yeah, I don't think phones. Might have a color screen. I probably had a digital camera. I had the old yellow and black one that Mr. Talk was about

the best thing I could expect out of that. So basically, you know, we've had some fun times and going through some of these photos, kind of sparks of memory. So I don't know, let's dive into one of these folders. I mean, I've got, a lot. I've got, look, I've got some divided by years. So we got like 2004, 2004, 2005, 2006, and they're just as random as you can imagine.

And so if anything, if you see anything that's funny, let's tell a story for our listeners. 2000 to 2003, this was, obviously I wasn't around then. I don't even know what's in this. Let's go to where you were around. Okay.

Well, 2004 was my first year. Did you see that one that was right there? You can cut all this mumbo-jumbo out, right? Yeah, oh yeah. We're going to do a lot of editing. All right. Now, Dale Jr. Nor T.J.

has really seen these photos, I don't think. No. And we can just go. We've got... That's funny. Well, let me tell you, I've got a story behind that. See, I don't like this story. Well, listen, it has to do with me a little bit because basically what we've come across is a photo,

a side-by-side photo of Dale Jr. and Neil Patrick Harris. You know, I would think this is awesome. But that's now... Hogue could take his place in this because that's more Hogue like now. It is a little bit. It is. Look at the hairline and stuff. So here's the thing.

Dale Jr. tagged me with a nickname. What year? I don't know what year it was. Maybe it was 2004. Yeah. He tags me with a nickname because I've got these wonderfully prominent two front teeth. And there was a horse that was.

You got more than two. It's a good. But the two. You got a good sixter going there. Right. Well, so there was a horse that was dominating that year, Smarty Jones. and Dale Jr. starts calling me Smarty Jones in front of everybody. And then, like, we'd be walking through the garage.

And he's like, hey, man, you want some carrots or some barley or whatever, you know? And I'm like, man, come on. So, like, I was trying to go back at Dale Jr. And so I always thought he kind of – there was a shot in a magazine of Duggy Houser. And I'm like, man, that looks just like Dale Jr. And so that was my attempt to try to get him back. But I don't have the same – That's pretty close from the – if you cover the eyes up.

I look way more like... I don't know, man. From the under the nose. And go back to the future than Neil Patrick Harris. Oh, my gosh, you're right. If you cover up the eyes and just look at the jaw line. Yeah. You do.

You look like... Mcfly. The old man, McFly. You know, the peep and Tom. Yeah, you climb the trees. Hey, you get your damn hands off her. That guy. Man, that's some good stuff.

Dustin, it gets better. I mean, here's what we're going to do. Now photos that we talk about are going to be posted in a gallery on Dale Jr.com so everybody that listens to this podcast podcast can see them. And obviously we don't have pictures of me sitting on a couch in Graceland. But we will have a lot of pictures that we talk about from these stories. And let me tell you, we talked for more than an hour. And we came up with some crazy behind-the-scenes stuff that nobody's ever heard. For instance, Dustin, are you ready for this?

I'm ready. The time we were in New York and Dale Jr. had a stomach bug. what's what we'll call it, a stomach bug, and he really needed a bathroom. And we were in a car going to an airport, so we obviously didn't have a bathroom. So we stop, we have the driver stop on a side of a highway, and Jr. runs back into the woods to handle his business. Hey, when you got to go, you got to go. Yeah, and he went. And we're going to tell that story.

Dale Jr. is going to tell that story. A lot more in the coming weeks. It's all exclusive here on Dirty Moe Radio. We're going to really have fun with this, so I hope all the fans enjoy it. All right, let's go to Reaction Theater. follow five, fourth, second and final practice. Aye, aye, aye, aye. Fourteenth, are you kidding me?

Keep taking four tires like that, no track position. Everybody's up to. Congrats to Brian Vickers. Enjoy the week off. See you on Indy. Dale, yeah. Well, a couple things there from my perspective. One, yes, congrats to Brian Vickers.

That was a cool win for him. Him and Rodney Chilters. Yeah, absolutely. Second of all, listen, everything was a gamble. I mean, everything's a gamble. Every week is a gamble. I mean, you make your strategy, and you still hope for the best. I've never seen a race where they take, where left stay on that long.

I mean, I've never seen a race like that. And it just didn't work out for us. No. It just, it was, the strategy didn't work out. All I have to say is that's got to be the most disappointing run so far this year. And also, Toyota and all the guys are driving on them. It was disappointing. It was disappointing, for sure.

But, I mean, it wasn't, you know, we had the speed. we just, you know, got behind in track position a little bit, and it was really hard to make up. He didn't practice and qualifying and does lousy in the race. Whether him do better in the race, he needs more points. He doesn't need to be back in 14, 15th, and 16th. Come on, junior. I wish it was that easy. He needs more points.

He doesn't need to be 14, 15, 16th. I can tell you for a fact, we all agree with that. Yeah, no doubt about it. Fine, no more ice cream, fine. Were you eating ice cream? You know what? I went up to the spotter stand with you on Saturday, and I was expecting ice cream up there,

and I was a little disappointed. It's only Sundays, man. Nobody's happy with a 14th place finish, but Steve made a good call and keep us out of gas. Overall, it was a great race, and how about we got to hear our boy Taylor on the radio? Good job, Taylor. There you go.

Yeah, we are proud of Taylor. Did a great job for Performance Race Network. It's a good deal. And yeah, we did not run out of gas. That is one thing. Yeah, we did not out of gas, and we took swing. at it. It's just that

it didn't work out. I wonder how close we were on gas. I don't think we were very close. Really? You think Junior saved enough? Yeah, I think the 200 caution lapsed we ran the end. Okay. Yeah, it helped us and everybody else it looked like. All right, I'm hitting

the fucking panic button. We don't have a win this season. We got fast cards and yet we've had bad luck and we're leading. We need a fucking win. Watching this New Hampshire race Junior said he's tight Steve Latar's not fixing it I don't know if you have to make bigger adjustments

To make the car better But it seems like every time Junior Tells Steve what the problem is It's not getting fixed So I don't know We need a fucking win I'm gonna do whatever I'm gonna do what I do every other weekend

I'm gonna play NASCAR the game inside line And Bill Jr. win the fucking loud and race Well I mean first of all The drivers are always going to complain about something There's no way the car will not be loose or tight at some point. That's right. That's right.

How many times have you ever heard a driver say, don't change things? It happens occasionally, but I'm saying. But it's not perfect. And they're not complaining, by the way. They're not complaining. They are reporting. Reporting.

The car's condition is. And so, and the crew chief is adjusting on, based off that feedback. So give Lartre a little bit of break. No, look, 14th place. Look, it was one of our worst races of the year, no doubt. It's not like our car was a 14th place car. We definitely, I think we had a top five. car but we just couldn't the the way the tires were you're so hard to get but get there the track

the um competition now is so equal so you really had to try racing you guys suck so bad that you got beat by four cars that spun out or had tire trouble or got penalized or were lapsed down that is just unbelievable four cars hey sometimes bad luck's good luck that's actually true as we talked about earlier in this podcast is that those cautions and the many cautions that we had gave all those cars that spun out chances to one fix their car many times.

Or pit and get tires. And then get tires at the end. It forces them into a strategy they probably normally wouldn't take and then sometimes it works out. So we're waking up. Just get the track solution when they did the day at the end, boys. It's all right. Keep your head up. Guys forward. Let's go to Indy. Let's win there. See you.

Well said. Yeah. That's a big. Probably going to happen. Today, within a couple weeks, we're going to be kissing a brick. That'd be nice. Yeah, I'm all for kissing it. You'd kiss a brick, wouldn't you? I would kiss a brick.

I might even, might even if I'm in a good mood. I don't know if I want to hear the rest of this. Yeah, okay. Let's talk. You know what? Piff on Elliot Saturday. He thinks he's so much better driver than what he really is. I'd just get tired of his hat.

I'm glad he got wrecked. Let's talk about this. This was a big deal on Saturday. Basically in the nationwide series race, you had three green white checkers, T.J. And it got really dicey there at the end. A lot of people, not sure if they're going to make it on fuel. Regan was, I think he restarted that last green white checkered in fifth, maybe six. Yeah, he was in Sadro.

We were inside row. Okay. So he was in fifth racing there with Elliot Sadler. He definitely got into Elliott in turn one and two. Elliott almost saved it, but he didn't. uh it actually cost he it actually cost reagan some positions because he had to check up to avoid elliot and uh i think we finished eighth yeah it definitely cost us too so i don't know man it's just you got to run at the line and you don't take it someone's going to take the run on you and you can be

in a bad situation so you're a lot of times you're better making the move yourself and controlling your own destiny obviously regan said he got a little loose and um he got into elli a little bit but you know guys guys mess up and accidents happen you know that they all mess up and race car drivers a lot of times they have they have a long memory when they get wrecked but they have a short memory when they wreck somebody right right a lot a lot of Elliott wasn't happy he uh had some words with regan in the garage afterwards and um that's pretty much it it was a racing incident regan took full accountability for it yeah he said yeah i would be mad too but uh certainly he's one of one of those unfortunate deals didn't work out for reagan either because he

finished 8th and he lost a couple points in the points battle. Yeah, I mean, some pretty harsh words from Elliot for sure, too, but I think he was just heat of the moment stuff. And, you know, he's had his handful of mistakes, obviously. He's running to some cars and wrecking people by accident as well. And they haven't, you know, put a bounty on him for it. So I'm sure he'll sleep on it and we'll go to the next race and everyone will go for a win there. When I woke up this Sunday morning, I wasn't really sure if my seven-month-old was prime.

or if Elliot Sadler was crying. Bottom line, is Elliot Souther is going to put his finger in Regan's face and tell him that he's not going to win the championship. Mark his word. Mark my word, Elliot. Neither will you, because you're probably going to lose it in Phoenix anyway. Wow.

Yeah, wow. Well, you know what? This is what's funny. If you're going to talk in the garage to Regan or Dale Jr. Or any junior motorsports driver, for that matter, you're going to be a topic on reaction theater for sure. Yeah. I mean, I think we should maybe put that guy in a third car,

handle some business. Hired. He's hired. Hit man. No, you know, listen, it was emotions after the race again. Yeah. Listen, we need some of that stuff anyway. If we don't have some of that stuff, people don't call in.

They don't react. And, you know, we need some excitement. Well said. You can call Reaction Theater and leave us your thoughts any time day or night. 1855740-1902 is the number. And when you do so, Just remember that all of this is brought to you by Dale Jr. Potato Chips. Go to Dale Jr. Foods.com for a store locator and place an online order.

That's Del Jr. Foods.com. Let's in this show with a White Flaglap. There you go, buddy, white flag. All right, we've approached the final open weekend of the 2013 Sprint Cup schedule. Del Jr. will be hanging out at Dirty Mo all week, and this Saturday he'll take part in a wedding for our buddy Brandon. We're all looking forward to that. Congratulations. Goes out to Josh Barry, who drives Dale Jr.'s late model car.

Barry won his second race of the year this past weekend at Hickory, the number 88 speed co-late model. That means we'll be beer toasting this week and the checkered flag will be waving outside of junior motorsports. Finally, we've expanded and you guys have yet another way to listen to Dirty Mo Radio. It's called Tune In Radio. It is an awesome app for your smartphone. It can also be accessed on tunein.com. Definitely check it out. And, of course, you can always find us on iTunes and Dell Jr.com, free of charge, 24-7.

Thank you to T.J. Majors co-hosting with me today. Thanks to producer Dustin Lee for bearing with me in Taylor Zarser's absence. Taylor will be back next week. Thank God. We'll talk to you then. This has been the Dale Jr. download. Thanks for listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Have you tried the new Dale Jr. potato chips?

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