The Dale Jr. Download - 28 - Bristol II with Marty Smith

Episode Date: August 26, 2013

To pit or not to pit? Fireworks from intense Bristol carry over, and ESPN's Marty Smith joins us with the pedal matted. 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. We were still five short, so, you know, and we didn't have a yellow. So it was five laps short, and, you know, you don't know if you saved enough. The Dale Jr. download starts now. For the hundreds of thousands in attendance and the millions watching around the world. This is Bristol. So let's get ready to rumble. I love that place.

with Mike Davis and Dustin Lee. I'm Taylor Zarzer. This is the Dale Jr. download. I love that atmosphere. I'm so blessed to be able to go to the greatest sporting events in the world. And when you're in the world's largest amphitheater, when you're in the last great Coliseum, I mean, I'm getting goosebumps right now.

I'm telling you, everyone must experience that, Mike Davis. My first race there was a nationwide series in 2002. And the end of the race, Jimmy Spencer punted Jack Sprague. Spray goes running down the front stretch to go after him. And the only reason he didn't is because Kevin Harvick was coming off the top ropes to go choke Greg Biffle. And I'm watching all this and I'm like, I love this place. Yeah. This, I can't get enough of it.

And it's been that same ever since. It was fascinating to watch. Junior ends up finishing 10th. Add 13 points to the cushion over 11th. He's now 33 points ahead of 11th place with two races to go. Now, keep this in mind. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news here, but he would be 10th right now if the chase started today

because of points and wins. So he would be 10th. Last week, he would have been 8th. This week he would be 10th, just given the other people that are in the top 10 right now, but his cushion over 11th is greater. It is at 33 points. So the moral of the story is this.

He's in a better position points-wise to make the chase, but he'd be further back in terms of point, starting the playoffs or the chase, if you will. So I guess the moral of the story is, Mike, win one of these next two. Hence the great debate over what we will spend our time talking about today, and that is to pit or not to pit because the people that wanted him to stay out, they will tell you they want him to get that win because you know that you need a win going into the chase

to give yourself a good shot to try to win the championship. I just got to ask you a couple questions. Did you see what happened to Clip Boyer? Yes. Dale Jr. is on exact same mileage as Clint Boyer. I mean exact same mileage as Clint Boyder. You could argue he was on the same mileage as Matt Kinzith. Matt Kinzeth has already won four races this year.

Matt Kinz's situation was very different from Dale Juniors. The two reasons why they absolutely made the right call. It's not even debatable in my mind is number one. They put themselves in a much better position to make the championship. You can't not make the championship. Second, I'm just going to be honest with you here, Mike. I don't think he wins the race. I think he finishes fourth.

If they do stay out and they don't run out of gas, I think he finishes fourth. He had one of the best cars. He drove a great race coming from 19th. The changes they made on that car on Saturday were why he was so bad fast all night long. But Casey Kane and Matt Kenseth had better cars. And he would have finished third or fourth. So you don't gamble to stay out if you're going to finish third or fourth. You gamble to stay out if you absolutely know we will finish first.

Here's where I was on this, and I'll just be completely transparent and honest. I was initially I was disappointed that they pitted. I said it on Twitter. I'm going to own up to the fact that I'm like, I wanted him to stay out because I thought he had a good enough car to win the race. That being said, I recognized two key points, and that is this. You're right. You have to make that decision to stay out, it is to win the race.

It is not to get a top five. Where Dale was restarting was fifth. If you go off the trends from the entire night, that's not with Dale Junior. That's with every driver out there, the inside row on restarts, you were pretty much guaranteed to lose one to two positions every restart if you were on the inside row. It happened to everybody all night. Junior's restarting fifth. He's on the inside row. So you have to assume you have to factor in the fact that he's going to probably slip to six or seven.

and you've got 40-some-odd laps at Bristol to win the race from six or seventh. No. And also have to pass Matt Kenseth or Casey Kane to win the race. That being said, I want to make sure I'm clear on this because I wanted him to stay out with the assumption that the way the race would play out would be that half of those guys were going to run out of fuel. They didn't. And a lot of people are going to use that as an excuse of why Dale Jr. should have stayed out

because, hey, everybody else had I look at it as a reason why, all right, I'm glad they pitted because I didn't see Dale Jr. winning with as few laps as there was, and restarting on the inside. I didn't see Junior able to win unless at least half of them. And both Kane and Kenseth both ran out of gas, and they didn't. Mike, the one thing that absolutely could not happen to Dale or Nart Jr. is what happened to Clint Boyer. That's right.

That is the thing that absolutely could not happen. If that happened, we're in chaos mode right now. Panic mode. And I recognize that fact is that as I'm sitting there counting on half of those people to run out of They're on the same mileage that Dale Jr. So I don't know why I thought my driver was going to be able to say that much and them not. I don't know. People attack me left and right for saying Dale Jr. should go for wins.

Dale Jr. should go for wins. I want him to go for wins. Well, the guy Taylor that says go for wins is telling you they made the right call. No, yeah. Listen, I think in Atlanta, if the situation is the same in Atlanta, stay out. It's a different kind of track. You can hold your position much longer in Atlanta than you can in Bristol. But there, it was absolutely the right decision.

So let's hear what the guys had to say. You talk about great teamwork. Right now, Steve LaTart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. And T.J. majors and the rest of that team. You want to talk about the same page? They are on it. Let's hear the vibration that Dale Jr. had when he climbed from 19th to 7th. I mean, just picking people off.

But he did report a vibration. Here it is. I got a vibration. It's like a wheel, but not a loose wheel. It's like a weird wheel vibration, but any loose. I only want to take left. Vibrations livable, not getting worse? Yeah, those aren't going to come off or something going to break.

Yeah, 10-4. If they all pit, stay out. Stay out if you can take the lead. They should all come in front of you. The only question is the 29. Hopefully we got the time. Yeah, I think we should. We should.

Those guys, you know, really, where the tires won't blow out. I'm going to tell you one thing. You know, I like how they were joking about the tire situation. And I didn't think that that vibration, the way Junior talked about it It didn't sound like the vibration was going to be a huge deal. You just kind of hoped it wouldn't be. But I know one thing. We learned early on in this race that if you were going to win the race, it wasn't going to happen by passing on the inside.

And boy, did we not learn it from the Casey Kane thing. But I know when Dale Jr. was in third. Oh, no, no, he was in fourth. And he went to take third. And he cleared them for a second. What happened? He got freight trained. Freight trained.

He went back to like seventh or eighth. And I was like, wow. So the inside row is not going to work. We learned that early on. And I think that plays a factor into the way that we, what we ended up doing towards the end of the race. To that point, when they're standing in the tunnel to go out to their song and Junior picks the Twilight Zone, by the way, which is kind of funny.

But Junior, Jeff Burton, Mark Martin, Jimmy Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Brad Kislauski. All those guys are kind of standing around talking shop. And Jeff Burton just comes up to Junior and the guys that goes, hey, boys, can I ask you all something? How are we supposed to pass each other tonight? I mean, because of what you just said right there, you could not make the bottom stick and they knew it going into the race.

It was confirmed as the race was going on. But he did. He just comes up and he goes, how exactly are we supposed to pass each other tonight? Because you couldn't. It was almost impossible to do it. I love the drama there, but it was really hard to pass. Okay, let's listen to a clip four. This is audio between laps 3.58 and 450, saving fuel.

I had to listen to Matt Kenseth, Clint Boyer, and Kurt Busch, Kyle Bush, and several others, and I heard a bunch of save, save, save. Yeah. And you heard it with Steve LaTartan Dale Jr. too. This is about three different cautions worth of chatter in about 100 laps. It's just kind of a collection of it all. Save gas right here, right around.

Save all you kidding. Let me know how you think you're doing if you're able to shut it off or if you're just running along gears to help me do some calculations. I'm getting it shut off, good bit. Come and keep coming. No caution. Caution out. Caution is out.

Safe fuel. My bud. Keep saving gas. All you're kidding here. 65 to go. I know this is going to be frustrated, but we just keep saving to be a little gas if you can. We don't want to let anybody go, but smoothers off the pedals. Lift early, left's break.

It's out of debris, and four, safe fuel. Last time is good. How's the car? It's fine. I'm saying to gas, not really having to do much. Before, save all your kid are to do it is yellow. Save. Stay, safe, save, safe, safe, safe.

One thing we did not hear in there was when Junior did say to Steve, like, listen, man, I got you. I know we got a safe fuel. You wasn't mad. No, no. But he was just saying, look, I'm with you. I'm on your team. Like, I know, I promise you, I'm in here doing everything I can to save fuel. Your point of saving is made.

It is hammered. You have to understand this, too. Dale Earnhardt, Jr., going into this race. I could see it all over his face. We'll talk to Marty Smith more about this as well. After the bad luck these guys have had in the last few weeks, Mike, the speed they've had. Dale Jr. was thinking, gosh, man, we've got to have a good finish tonight. We've got to have a good finish tonight.

And you could tell he was very confident about the plan that Steve and Dale had going into this race. But he was also like, we can't have any fluke thing happen. We can't have what happened to Clint Boyer where Travis Cupple, a lapped car comes up and Rex Boyer with the lead. Something like that could not happen to Junior. So when you're telling him save, save, save, he's in there thinking, man, we cannot run out of gas tonight. Right, absolutely. Because you know what? You have played every bad luck card that you can play.

at this point. Bad luck, all of a sudden, if it happens, you are in a hole. Yeah. And, you know, so bad luck could not happen that night. That's right. All right. Now, here it is. The decision to pit. It's caution 11. Lap 447. You have 53 to go. He's in fifth position, but they made the right call here. Here it is. How many cars are all the league last? 18 total. We're running fifth, and we're trying to figure out how many of those 18 have been damaged? Is that big wreck? Yeah, I'm with you. What's what I'm looking at?

I'm looking at it all. I'm doing a little math here. Here's the deal. We are running fifth. If we pit, we're going to restart 12 with tires. That's the deal. Yeah. I don't know, man.

I don't want to run out of gas. We've got the guys beat on pit on a point if we just, you know, if we want to get us to top ten here. Yep. We won't go back to where we're up for a win. Come on. Pit right here. Put four tires. I put gas in it.

Somebody else to make the call. I'll make it. I'll be the bad guy, but it's my job. I think this is a better decision. I think we had enough fuel, but... That's the right call, and I love the way he explained himself there. It's just kind of funny that Steve knows the whole free world's listening when he says that. It's almost like he's doing an interview while saying to Dale Jr.

But he's right. It was not for the win. It was to finish fourth or fifth. It was not for the win. You solidify your points position inside the top 10. Just at the end of the day, I know everybody didn't want that to happen, but it's the right. call. The other factor that had to been, you heard Junior talk about this, the other factor is that

that big crash that caused that 11th caution, there were a lot of contenders that were around Dale Jr. and the points that were wrapped up in that. And when Junior asked about the 56, he asked about other cars as well. We didn't have it in that clip, but he asked about other cars because he was wondering where the people that are around him in points if they got wrapped up and what the condition of their car was because the 56 was destroyed. The two had a lot of damage. A lot of those cars

had a lot of damage, all of a sudden, that could have triggered a little bit of a change of mentality. Like, we don't need to go for the win here. We need to come out of here with points. And you heard Dale Jr. say it right there. Yeah, you did. And it was at the end of the day, it was the right call. Nobody wants wins more than these guys do, but you had to do the right thing, and it was the right

thing. Here's junior after the race. We were going. We were all, we were still five short. So even, you know, we didn't have a yellow. It was five laps short and just, you know, you don't know if you saved enough under caution, shutting the car off and stuff. If we were past Richmond, Steve said we would have gambled and went for it. And I believe that.

If it was earlier in a season, we would have gamble and win for it. But under the circumstances, we didn't have the freedom to do that. And, you know, it was much I hate to say what would have happened. You know, we've been in, maybe we could have finished in the top five or top three even. It's considered what happens to guys behind us, the points. We had to do the right thing. All right, it is Junior Nation's favorite snack. Dale Jr. Potato chips.

If you haven't had them, do yourself a favor. Go to DaleJerFoods.com. That's DaleJR Foods.com and find out where you can buy them or place an order online. You will not regret it. That's Dale Jr. Potato Chips at Dale Jr. Foods.com. Let's speed dial. Let's turn to the best motorsports reporter on the planet from ESPN.

he is Marty Smith. Before the race, it was Taylor, it was Marty, it was Bristol, and it was Bo Seifus. My God, it was Bo Seepus. And I'll tell you what, my man still got it, doesn't he? I'm going to tell you, Marty, I saw the picture of you guys. One of y'all tweeted a picture. He definitely did not look. I held the picture up to my wife.

I said, who is that? And she goes, I have no idea. And that's Hank Williams Jr. And she goes, oh, my God. He's an old man, but he's still got it. I said a tailored together. Yeah. It might be the apocalypse.

Hank Williams, Jr., and same place at the same time. So we might just all spontaneously combust and be sucked up into the sky to whatever spiritual realm we worship. I could tell you, the first great Coliseum didn't have a show like that with Bill Jr. Hay. Hayer, that's the last great Coliseum. But the last one did. If anyone wants to know if this man is genuine, my buddy Marty here, on Thursday night, after dinner, he says, Taylor, I got a song we got to play before I get out of the truck. And he just starts blaring country state of mind.

But ready to tear his shirt off, too. Yes, sir. He fired up, man. You know. Jack D. and Hank Jr., still down. Jack D., Bristol, Hank Jr. Why that song, Marty? I mean, he's got a favorite Hank Jr.

song, man. Is it? It's true. Listen to the lyrics. So we played the clip earlier in the podcast. You've heard it. The big decision. that Junior Nation is going crazy about whether to pit or not to pit.

At the end of the day, Marty, what's your call? I think in the broader scope, there's no question that it was the right call because you heard Junior's concern about running out. And that's a whole other story for another time that I'll probably tell on my podcast, Marty and McGee on Tuesday because it's pretty funny. I would share it with y'all because, you know, y'all are Junior Nation and, you know, you worship it. You've got to save it for yours.

Do that. I was discussing with Junior, his thought process right now, given the fact that he's had this consistent year where they've made pretty good speed, they've had many opportunities. They're in the victory conversation. But having two finishes of 30th or worse in a row, what has that done to your confidence? And just point blank, how much do you fear missing the chase?

And he said, look, I'm concerned. I'm real concerned. And I'm putting so much pressure on myself, so disappointed if it doesn't happen. I'm not sure I can disagree. He said to me, quote, to miss the chase would be really, really frustrating and really disappointing. I don't really know how we can strong team, a team strong enough to be there, in my opinion. With consistency, frustration every year for us, decision he made. That's a lot of fans in the aftermath of that decision said to me on Twitter and whatnot,

that it frustrated them because why isn't it about winning anymore? The chase is a rebirth. If we were in the old system, Junior's got no chance in hell of winning a championship. He makes a chase he does. Right. It's that simple. Right.

And we know that going into the chase, that if you don't have wins, then you have created yourself an uphill battle. That's noted. But people don't understand to not make the chase. And we've been in that situation before. And now at this point, the chase has been going on long enough where people, you know, even the good drivers

or Jeff Gordon, your Tony Stewart's have not made the chase. You don't understand how bad that stings. Like what it does, how it affects your offseason, how it affects your next season. You've got a whole year before that actually gets healed. That wound gets healed, and that's assuming you make it the next year. I can't know how much the best last year. We may as well not even be here.

Yeah, and that's the way it feels. Yeah. That's the way it feels to those race teams, especially the ones that were in, like Kyle last year, You know, has a good year, had some misfortune, a couple blown motors, and the next thing you know, he's on the outside looking in. As I recall, he had the best average finish of any team. Yeah.

And you want to be relevant. That's ultimate terrible feeling for any athlete. Or she wanted them to go for wins. If it was 2002, they would have. But it's not. Or if they didn't have a 20-point cushion from 11th, they probably go for it. Right. You know, if they had a 60-point cushion, they'd probably go for it.

He said to me, too, back to the Wally World, it's really not about the confidence. We have the confidence in the equipment and the car being fast. We've had the strangest luck, and it does come and go, and you can't always have the best of luck, and the brakes aren't always going to go your way, but he fully admitted. This year's been really challenging from that perspective. So they felt like they wanted to make their own luck on Saturday night rather than push their luck. Have you ever been wrong by another person? That would be affirmative, Taylor, yes.

Yes. Well, because of you, you being such a great friend of mine, I have become a fan of Casey Keynes. Let me ask you, Marty, this question. If you find that person that has wronged you, as Matt Kenseth has wronged him, in between you and the checkered flag at Bristol Motor Speedway, on the last lap of the Saturday Night Race,

what does Marty Smith do about it? Here's another dynamic that race fans don't understand. And that's myself included. This is not an indictment on anyone's intelligence. Because we don't know what they know. And Matt Kenseth said it very thousand one. You're not slammed on the bottom and moving people out of the way. You're on the top to move somebody out of the way.

If Casey goes and tries to move Matt or wreck Matt, he's going to wreck himself. More often than not. Yeah, Juan Pablo's winner. don't like nobody's taking that into account it quite frankly pissed me off a lot of people remembers the nice guy and they compare him nice guy he has no championships all this mess okay it's a mess to me it takes a lot more guts to race away case he race yeah and that's the way i feel about it i mean what do you end up with when you've wrecked your car and you've wrecked somebody else's car at the end of the day what have you got yeah montoy interrupted him and said i i wanted you to wreck him just for the

record. Yeah, of course he did. Right. But I think he's absolutely right about this. And it does take more courage to race him the way he did for 25 laps saying, I want to do this the right way. But I also, the other thing, here, I thought it was. I thought it was fantastic and I got destroyed from fans for saying that I thought it was a great, great finish. Those people that are destroying you are people that are trying to find something wrong with everything in life. Because let me tell you this, I'm sitting there in the pits, and there are 150,000 people on their feet losing their minds. Losing their minds.

And the last 30 laps in every single turn, there is a fight for the win. That is what NASCAR is all about. That's what made people fall in love with NASCAR. That was awesome. And let me just say this about Casey Kane. Casey Kane, you don't tread on Casey Kane. Casey Kane said this. Matt Kenseth could have lifted.

at Watkins Glen and he decided not to. I would have done something differently there. That's not the way I race people. So Casey Kane will stand up for himself. He'd just rather race by you than wreck you. But, wait, Marty, what is people's problem with that race? I don't understand. Like, how are people walk away from that race?

They wanted Casey to wrecked Matt. And they, I mean, I said that I felt like it was great, and people are calling me a NASCAR puppet, and they're calling me a yes man. and all this complete comprehension. If you don't like that, then turn, go do something else. Yeah. That's right.

Because that to me, maybe I'm more easily amused than your average. I couldn't even get enough of it. I'm about spontaneously combusted watching it. Yeah. Matt's ability to phenomenal. Not looking to the rearview mirror the whole time. He looked out his windshield and said, run your damn line. Wow.

That is a great point. And I don't know how you do that. It is a tremendous ability. I marvel at him. And sometimes the reaction from people, I don't get it to me. Because it was about the competition. It wasn't contrived. There was no green-white checker.

There was no wave-around. Those two guys were there for a reason. I love it. It was wonderful to me. Try having somebody walking behind you that close for five. minutes to see if you don't walk differently, let alone drive. Biffle and Jr. had it going on battling for 9th and 10th, and Casey and Matt put on a show there. It was, I thought it was awesome.

I was proud to be there associated with it. And you are the damn man, my friend. Marty and McGee is an excellent podcast, and you've got to listen to that tomorrow so you can hear about the redneck Jesus stories. Dale Jr. at Walmart, what could go wrong? I mean, it's good. Everything's right about it. Can I just say this finally, outside of Dale Earnhardt Jr., do you know who the second most popular man is at Bristol Motor Speedway?

Other than Hank? No, I mean, maybe even more than him. Yeah, this dude that's on this Google hangout with us right now. It's unbelievable. He owns a place. It's his world, and he deserves it. He deserves it. Best Motorsports reporter on the planet is Marty Smith.

We love you, brother. I appreciate y'all, man. Thanks for having me and huh. Taylor, before we go to reaction theater, we got to make a phone call real quick. I just got an email from our buddy, Carter Johnson, and he has said, he sends me an email and he says,

hey, is Danica dating anybody? Does she have a boyfriend? I just realized I'm in love. Our boy Carter Johnson. Oh, my goodness. Are you kidding? Dustin. Dustin, let's call him.

Speed dial. All right, we're on the phone with Carter, Johnson. Carter, I'm sorry. Hold on. Hold on a second. Hold on. We're not on the phone with Carter Johnson. We're on the phone with Coonskin. That's true. That's right. Okay. I mean, if you want Junior Nation here on the Dale Jr. download to know who we're talking to, you know, you say, well, we got to call Carter.

We got to call Coonskin. That's right. Coonskin here. Coonskin, you sent me an email. And you say, and here's the email. It says, is Danica Patrick dating anyone? I just realized I'm in love. Yeah. Coonskin, did you really need to ask who Danica's dating? I mean, it's only been the most widely reported news of the year.

Checking my options, you know. I wanted to see. Okay, so she's dating Ricky Stenhouse, okay? Who is that? So do you have any plan on the way to approach Danica? I mean, if you're going to really make this work? Maybe send her a card, a Coonskin hat or sort, something like that. Be yourself, Coonskin.

Do what you do. do what you do when you approach women. I think we should... Listen to my heart. What is that? Yeah, how do you approach women, Coonskin? You know, love like a dance you learn as you go. Okay.

Sometimes leave. Sometimes you fall out. That's right. That's John Michael Montgomery right there. That's right. That's the man himself. Cunskin, if we took you to Atlanta this weekend, okay? And Dale Jr. says, hey, Coonskin, come with me.

I want you to meet Danica Patrick. What are you going to go up to Danica and say? Man, you know, you can't plan stuff like that. that kind of stuff right here. You've got to shoot from the hip, speak from the heart, and know what you go. Do you wear your shirt? You know what?

That's a good. I'm going to have to think about that. I'd probably, I'd probably take it out. I'd probably go shirtless. Show her the tattoo? She's got to see a tattoo. Then she'd think, oh, man, he's got a gun on his waist. Is he, is he an outlaw?

Is he this? Is he that, you know? And she's going to say, I got to find out. Yeah, I got to find out. Right? Yeah. Okay. I mean, she seems real happy with Ricky Stannell.

I mean, you're going to have to do some big time persuading. Coonskin, last question real quick. If you had a date with Danica, where would you take her? You're going all out, aren't you? I'm just saying, I want her to see that, hey, I know that you got all the glit and glamour and all that stuff right there, but let's just be real. Let's just be us. You know what I mean?

You don't need to put all your eggs in the first basket, though. I mean, you know, spread it out, right? Do you supersize on the first date? Do you wait for the second to supersize? We might share her number three, you know what I'm saying? All right. Well, good stuff. Good stuff, Coonskin.

We just had to ask. Thank you for the email. We'll work on this. I don't typically... Yeah. And make sure you put it a good word. And if you got any dirt on Ricky, you know, let me know. I will.

Okay. All right, that's good. Thank you, Coonskin. Yeah. All right, let's fire up reaction theater now, Dustin. Let's hear all these crazy people from Saturday night. I had to give myself about 12 hours or so before I called in because I was so fucking hot over that call. One caution before we had enough feel we were good to go.

Another caution comes out, so we should be even more good to go. And we f*** 10. But I'm the same guy who, if we ran out of gas, I'd be called in a fucking about that. So double that short there. That's got to be the dumbest cause Steve LaTorch ever made. We run so good all night long and then just gave it away at the end. I mean, we could have been up a battling with the 5 and the 20 for the win,

but we're back there running for 10th. This is ridiculous. I'm very, very, very, very, very satisfied with this race. He raced very well. Some people must say he had a horrible race and that Stevie's a whiff. I love Stevie and I'm glad that he made that decision because if he would have gambled, then we probably would have been screwed, you know, on the rear end. 40, I'm Saturday night relaxing with a couple cold, fucking beers.

I'm fucking running. in my neighborhood by some kind of fitness freak. I cannot do it make sense to, but then change your mind and play it safe to get a 10th spot. I don't even do as shit that Dale Jr. wanted to fit at the end. Dale Jr.'s driver, he always wants tires. I thought it's your job to tell him to shut the fuck up and drive. A comment for Dan, the junior fan.

Steve Retard He made the right decision At the time that we needed that decision If Junior would have freaking ran out like Clint Boyer We would have ended up 15th So it's best to come in Take the fuel and get a 10th place Great decision Steve with heart

Great race tonight See y'all at Atlanta I'll be there We left the race last night at Bristol Ginger had a real good car Let's lap Run top 5 most of the night Wish we would have stayed

That pet strategy but I understand why we didn't. The previous two races kind of handcuffed us there a little bit with the bad luck we had. I think had we had good runs in those two races, we probably would have went for the win last night. But I understand why we didn't. Junior ran a good race tonight.

A lot of people's probably going to be real pissed at Steve LaTart for calling him in to get gas losing track position. But it's either that or him run out of gas, and then everybody would be real pissed then. Well, 10th place, it's solid. Regarding the pit call, I think it was the right call at the time to bring 88 to pit road. You can't be short on fuel there and finish in the 20s. That would have been disastrous.

But in the overall scheme of the race, I don't think it was the right call. I think the right call would have been to come to pit road when Casey Cain did the previous caution and get tires on and fill it up then because you saw Cain drive up to the field. Obviously, he had a good car. but timing for his pitch stop was a lot better than the timing for juniors was. Hey, guys. I don't know if you listened to this before, but I came up with a song for Junior's introduction.

Little Alice Cooper, no more Mr. Knight. Wow, 11 of the top 15 drivers had problems last night, and thankfully the 88 wasn't one of them. It's a great job by Junior running a clean race. Great job by Latark, calling a smart race. The Tjj majors, with the court of the night when he said the 10 needs to get out of the damn way. Hey, guys, this is Territ. and Bradshaw. I just want to ask Junior Nation, which would they rather have happened?

Junior pitting and getting the top 10 finish or not pitting, running out of gas, finishing 25th, and losing more points. You've got a big picture here, people. Reaction Theater is open 24-7. All you have to do is call toll-free, like it's 1983, 1853, 1855-740-1902. 1855-740-1902 and leave us your voicemail message. It will play the best each week right here on Dirty Moe Radio. And don't forget, there are four flavors of Dale Jr. potato chips, crispy original, zesty alpineo, creole and green onion, and Carolina barbecue.

Go to Dale Jr. Foods.com right now to get yours today. I can't see anything because my contacts fell out. So watching me read right now is hilarious. Let's throw the white flag. Everybody, you've got to stop what you're doing and go get you. get the September issue of NASCAR Illustrated, because in it is an awesome cover package of Dale Jr. and the Dale Earnhardt Jr. Foundation. You can go buy it at store dot scenedaily.com. NASCAR Illustrated is also carried in Walmart and bookstores all across

the country. Now, by the way, I'll see later. Also, there's a coupon right there on the cover for a dollar off goodies headache relief shot. If you're a longtime goodies user like we are, Taylor, you'll love this new product from goodies. It's super fast, maybe in faster than the powders. You know, those are stupid fast. Those are fast, and they've been used on Sunday mornings. That's right. If you haven't seen the new Diet Mountain Dew advertisement called Dale Earnhardt Jr's Diet Do Portrait, you need to go right now to see it.

Go, Taylor, right now. See it. Okay. Now, while you're there, check out the behind-the-scenes gallery of Dale and team making the commercial. Again, that's Hendrick Motorsports. Saturday's great clips 300 nationwide series race will start at 7.30 p.m. Eastern on ESPN 2. Casey Cane and Regan Smith will be going for Junior Motorsports.

Sunday's Advocare 500. Sprint Cup race will start at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time and we'll be shown on ABC. Mike Davis isn't going to admit this, but it's the truth. He's going to miss the first 100 laps of that Saturday night race. I'm going to miss all of them. Roll tide for Mike Davis and Dustin Lee, as well as Marty Smith and Coonskin. I'm Taylor's Arster. This has been the Dale Jr. download. Share me in number three.

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