The Dale Jr. Download - 429 - Top Dale Sr. Moments Bracket & Mike's Signature Victory

Episode Date: March 23, 2023

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and co-host Mike Davis reconvened in the Bojangles Studio to discuss their episode 428 interview with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Dale explains that Ricky at age 35 is likely just now getting into his prime as a racer, and a high-profile win like the Daytona 500 can do a lot to boost a driver’s career. They also break down the incredibly diverse field for this weekend’s NASCAR Cup race at Circuit of the Americas, run through a new Earnhardt-centric tournament bracket and introduce a new segment called “Guess the Driver.” 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.

I have a win at my fingertips and I can't, I'm freezing up. What do you think? Am I hono over? Nah, a little slightly. We don't know what we're doing. Are you kidding me, Mike? Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. Welcome back to another episode of the Dale Jr. download.

It is Thursday, March to 23rd. I'm here with Mike Davis in the Bojangles studio, and this is the wait. Hold up. Wait a minute. Uh-uh. Say what show. Good heavens. That's a lot.

Is that the new name? That is the new name. You nailed it too. I was scared you're going to butcher it. What, hold up. Wait a minute. Uh-uh. Say what?

There you go. Where did you come up with this? This was deep on Saturday night. I just thought of this. I'm like, that's what I'm going to name the show when I wrote down. Deep on Saturday night means at a bar? It was St. Patty's Day celebration. Yes, it was.

St. Patty's Day. That's it. And you were drunk. A little bit, little bit. Wait. Eat a doba. Okay. Well, we had Ricky Stenhouse on the show yesterday.

Ricky was great. Awesome to be able to talk to the Daytona 500 champion. And hearing a lot about his story in terms of what went down with his transition from Rouse to the 47th. And what that experience has been like. Cool dude. Like I said, you never hear him on reaction theater. You never hear him going crazy over the radio. always got a smile on his face,

races hard, friend to everybody in the garage for the most part. I don't know anybody that's got a bad thing to say about him. He's raced hard under some challenging circumstances, performance-wise, but he stayed positive enough that when those opportunities to win do happen, when they are in front of him, he's present. And that's why he's a Daytona 500 champion, Mike. So I think it's a great example for people, you know, that, you know, to stay the course, to keep grinding away, he said it himself.

You know, you're, you know, those opportunities to win and those opportunities for good days are in front of you and they will happen. But if you're not doing the work, even when things aren't going the right way, you won't win when that opportunity is there. So anyway, it's pretty cool. I think that's pretty much his career in a nutshell right now, but he's only, you 35 years old. I didn't get the chance to say this to him, but I wanted to. He's literally just now getting into the prime of his career as a race car driver. I've always felt like that 35 to 43 years of

age is the pinnacle, the peak of the mental side of it, having all of the effort and understanding what you need to do off the racetrack. It's when a driver really has a potential to be his best or her best. And so I think that he, you know, as much as he's raced and seen and done in the trials and tribulations and the highs and lows, he's still not at the peak of his career till just right about now. That's true. I didn't even think about that. I wasn't aware he was 35. So that's an interesting point. I will tell you my takeaways from that conversation with Ricky was, one, how absolute down-to-earth he is. And I know that we know that we know. We know. We knew this about him already. But again, that was an enjoyable conversation we had yesterday.

You know, sometimes it feels more like an interview or sometimes more like a formal thing. But we talked about some pretty heavy stuff. And man, that was just an enjoyable conversation. I don't, I didn't want at the end, frankly. So that was number one. Number two is we got to remind ourselves, like, he was like almost crowned the, you know, the next big thing. He won those Xfinity Series, then the nationwide series championships. And he gets to Cup. And man, what happens when you are the future of an organization, but then the organization deteriorates? And like when people start leaving and they don't go replace these, you know, very foundational

type drivers like a Matt Kenseth or a Carl Edwards. What happens then? And man, that has to do some kind of work on your psychology as a race car driver. Because I know you guys. You guys are, I don't mean this in a disparaging way, but there's a lot of headgues. games that go on in your brains, man, and y'all are overthinking things and you're wondering, and there's some doubt that creeps in. Man, when the doubt creeps in, it's almost like that's two-tenths right there, you know, because now you're not the best driver on the track.

You're, am I the best driver on the track? And now it's all of a sudden, your performance echoes that, that doubt. So, man, he had to go through quite the emotional roller coaster, I think, it roused only then to be told come in for a meeting. Oh, it's just a meeting. They tried to do it without his agent. Smartly, Josh, you know, wised up to it and showed up. But they let him go. I mean, that's one of those unfortunate things.

And, man, I just think that he was very forthcoming, very transparent about what that that situation was like. And I appreciated that. But again, I think we should compliment and respect Ricky for all that he brings the table. Yeah. I think one of the things that I enjoyed talking about and thinking about is this weekend's race, Coda, coming up.

I'm trying to pick his brain a little bit about what they felt the no stage breaks was going to do to the race. Fans have been begging for this. No stages. They don't like the stages. They don't like the race is stopping. They are fine with giving away stage points or having a stage winner, but they would prefer that there be no break.

in the action, especially at the truck and the Xfinity level where the races are already pretty abbreviated. The amount of caution and green flag racing sort of weighs heavily toward the caution side when you add these stage breaks. So there's this bit of a, there's a bit of momentum, I think, created now about this, around this conversation because now NASCAR has given, you know, given some credence or credibility to that conversation by taking away the stage breaks and throwing the yellow for the stages at the road courses.

I don't know that that is going to make a better race. My fear is that the race will be a long green flag run, much like Ricky said yesterday, and there'll be very minimum, if at all, any yellows. And it will be a strategy race where, how many times do you stop? And even the length of this race at Cota makes it really challenging to do a lot of different things

for multiple teams to be on multiple strategies. And so with the way the fuel works in this race and the length of the race is a 24-lap window for fuel and it's a 68-lap race. So everyone will pit twice at the same time. So it will have to be fortunate enough to get a unique yellow situation that might throw everybody's strategy off. And so, you know, anyways, if you love, you know, the F1 style strategy and the races and what you see in a lot of the road courses in Open Wheel, this is more than likely going to look like that.

And which I'm fine with. I'm good with it. I'm glad that we're getting away from the stage breaks at the road courses. But I wonder how people are going to react to what they see Sunday. I don't know what we'll see exactly, but I wonder what the conversation will be. Yeah. And how people will feel about it in terms of what the next road course race might offer now that we've seen what it's like without the stage breaks. I mean, we can go back several years and watch a road course race.

and that's what it's going to look like without stage brakes in it. But with this particular car, Ricky Stenhouse said yesterday, drivers are making less mistakes. They figured it out. Yeah, the car is, you know, the car is purpose built

to go around racetracks just like this. You know, it's not a hand, it's not as much of a handful at a road course as the old car was. And I think one thing that we can really lean into in case we're looking for a storyline and void of many storylines on Sunday, is all of the road course racing specialist that will be joining the field. Jensen Button, Kimmy Racken, Connor Daly, Jordan Taylor,

and even Jimmy Johnson, I would throw him into that mix, as a name to pay attention to, right, a driver to keep your eye on. Hopefully, that's two F1 champions, an active IndyCar driver, an MSA legend, a seven-time NASCAR champion all in the same race. This might be one of the most compelling fields that NASCAR's ever had. I mean, going back to when Mario and AJ were hanging around and running a race or two. This is going to be fascinating to see which of these guys can go out there and be competitive. Yeah.

All of the cars that they're driving will have various degrees of performance. And, you know, it'll be interesting to see who, can work their way into the top of the field. I am particularly curious about Jordan Taylor, frankly, because I know when we did our ultimate experience at Bristol last year, Jordan Taylor actually was Charlotte that he came to. He came, and a lot of the questions that people asked Jordan was, when will you get in a cup car, and where would it be?

And it was funny how he sort of navigated that question, because you could tell that he really wanted to get in one, but you've got to, you know, play your hand right. Well, now he gets in one. And I can't wait. I hope he does well. I hope Connor does well. Obviously,

Connor's our boy and he does the podcast and stuff. But, like, Jordan Taylor really has a chance to level up in terms of his stock. You know, he is a phenomenal road course racer. And, and, but, like, now he's in a NASCAR cup car. I think this is an awesome opportunity. I know that a lot of people are going to look at the driving and testing that he's been able to do in the garage 56 car. and say, hey, man, you know, it's a similar vehicle. That should give him an advantage.

But the, this, and he's actually, I think, maybe tested the garage 56 car at Kota. Okay. And so that will be a great, that'll be great help to him to be able to at least understand the track. And why, you know, I know he's probably been around that track before, but the apexes and entrances to the corners with this race car and the center of gravity and so forth,

be a little bit different than maybe with an open-wheel car how you might approach a certain series of corners. But that garage 56 car was multiple seconds faster than what this stock car, this particular NASCAR cup car will do around that track. The braking zones, the cornering speed, everything's going to be completely unuseful to him.

So as much as that, you might want that to be an advantage for him, I don't know it's going to be quite as helpful. But he is in a great race car. Yes. Subbing for Chase Elliott. He does have a ton of pressure on him. I don't think that maybe it's not fair, but I think the pressure is because we all want him to do well. You're right. You're right.

It's not because we're not sitting here thinking, man, this guy is a legend and he ought to go out there and kick tail. And if he doesn't, it's going to be a stain on his resume. we all want Jordan Taylor to go have a great race because of the personality is, because of the following he has on social media, the things that he does are so unique to anything else that we see in motorsports. And everybody just really wants to see this thing go well for Jordan. Yeah. Right? I have, like you, Mike, I have wanted to see him in a cup car for years

only because of the personality that he is. every sport would be clamoring to get a guy like that into the fold. And so while it will be awesome to see Jimmy out there and competing, Jensen and Kimmy and all those guys, I think my focus is probably going to be mostly on Jordan and what kind of pace he's showing and what kind of race he's able to put together. Because I think that honestly, should he do really well, he's still young enough to possibly pivot at some point in his life into a NASCAR career. And as many road course races that we have on the schedule,

and the way this car is built and designed leans itself a little bit more toward the road racing specialist, I could see, you know, people doing that. You know, I know this is probably a lot different, but Austin Cendrick, right? His whole life was geared toward EMSA, road racing, club racing, all of those. and he pivoted rather late, you know, just in the past several years,

he really made a really a big effort to go stock car racing only and specific. I don't think Jordan's too old to make that choice and make that change. You know, and it'll be interesting to see. Hopefully this is just one of many opportunities he gets behind the wheel of the next-gen car in the future. So we had a bracket last week, the beer bracket. What was the response to the beer bracket, bud? Very positive. Okay, good, good.

And I believe it or not, a lot of people were shocked to hear you guys have never heard of a shower beer. I know. I heard that too. Yeah. I need to try a shower beer, I guess. Yeah. There was a beer that we left off of our bracket, by we, I mean you, Alex, that I think that should have been included. And that is golf course beer.

Yeah. That is a famous beer right there. I don't play no golf. I know, maybe that's why I left it off. But the fact is, that's a popular beer. What's the best application of the shower beer? It's more... Is it similar to the hangover beer?

Kind of, but it's more like after work, and it's like, you know, if you've got kids and stuff, and, you know, it's a long time. You just crack open that beer and you're in the shower, and it's that full deep lens from the day. Okay, so that will give it a go, man. I will report back my first ever. shower beer on next week's show.

But we got another bracket for you today. Top Dale Senior Moments. Look, this is Alex coming up with this. I know we do a lot of Earnhardt stuff on this show, but I'm excited about this bracket. All right. The intimidated bracket right here on the Dale Jr. download. Let's get started.

The 1998 Daytona 500. It's in a tough, tough early round. the first career win in 1979 at Bristol. I had the suit from the first career win. Gosh, this is a tough one. Is it? Yeah, man. I mean, that first win put you on the map.

He won his first race at Bristol, the first Bristol trip early in the year, rookie year. What if he don't win that race, man? He wins the next one. Well, I don't know. We are going, let's go around the room, Alex. I go Daytona 500.

Okay, Daytona 500. Mike Davis Daytona 500 1998 All right I'm going to go with you guys Daytona 500

that was a tough one I would seeded the first win higher than 8th I tried to keep them I would have been similar topics yeah

this one not necessarily seated all right well I would have seated that number two let's go with the rollover on the back straight away

and get back in the car 1997 Daytona 500 moment with a top 10 at Watkins Glen with a broken sternum and collar roll. I think he also won the poll for that one. You know, I don't know. I think they roll over and get back in the car is a cool one. People really thought that was neat. This is the one where he goes, does that thing crank? Yeah, climbs out of the ambulance, back in the car and finishes the race. It's pretty strong.

Just a bit, but to add a little bit of color to the Watkins Glen's broken sternum collarbone, Joe Mattis says that they set a merchandise record. They rushed up T-shirts. That ended up. It hurts so good. T-shirt. After he qualified on the pole. That's right.

Where are you going? They used to have this bit on John Boy and Billy, a morning show around here in Charlotte, 99.7 Fox. And this guy comes on and goes, he sat on the pole, ribs sticking through his shirt. And I always saw it. He's like, you know, he's tough. Better and hard, he's tough. Yeah. I thought that was hilarious.

Ribs sticking through his shirt. I am going, I know you haven't asked me, but I'm going to tell you, I'm going with that one. I'm going with Watkins Glen in the second bracket there. All right. Round number one, bracket three, 18th to first at Talladega 2000 or the pass in the grass. Two more that honestly, don't believe they don't belong in the same bracket in the first round. I don't think so. Two big moments.

The elite eight. The elite eight. It's supposed to be. It's elite eight. Oh, my gosh. This is the elite eight, right. There's only four games here, but this is a tough one. You got the 2000 Talladega raise for.

He goes 18th to first. Wow. I'm going to go Talladega. You know. Overpassing the grass. Well, I would. Was that 1987? I'm going to, this is why.

This is why. All right. If you just said 1987 Winston, I would have chosen that one, the bulk of the whole race, right? But passing the grass, to chase Elliot's credit, it annoys the hell out of him that it was not a real pass, right? And so, being the son of a famous race car driver, just like him, I can totally understand his frustration with how that celebrated as a pass

that wasn't really a pass. So I'm going to say the Talladega win, even though I'm annoyed by that one as well, because I had a lot to do with that actually getting in position to win that race. You don't have to believe that shit. I don't care if you like it or not, but my indecisions behind Skinner and half-throttling

and not being sure what to do took a bunch of momentum out of that line, and that allowed dad to get powered up on the outside. I regret a lot of things I did in that race late. You shouldn't beat yourself up over it. Well, I should have pulled up in front of dad, and he pushed me to the wind, or I should have pushed Skinner and maybe tried to find a way around him a little different than I did. I should have doored Skinner when I got underneath him on the front straightaway,

but I didn't want to cause a damn wreck in front of the whole field. Anyways. So you're saying going to the apron is not a good. Going to the apron and him, he wasn't going to let me up, and I'm like, okay. It was just all. So you're going with Talladega. Taladaiga 2000. Alex, where do you go?

I go to Talladega. I'm going with Talladega as well. All right. Because I was there in the grandstands. Oh, yeah. Rattle his cage, Bristol with Terry Labani. Or the windshield wiper at Richmond. Dirty windshield and he unbuckles itself under caution

and wipes and cleans his own windshield. I'm going with that because I believe he ends up winning that race, maintaining that track position, cleaning his windshield on the racetrack. Crazy that back then you did, if you did that today, NASCAR would bring your ass down pit road and probably, you know, give you a fine and some money to spend. But rightly so, I think it would probably be a penalty to be unbuckling yourself from a rolling

car. But back then, it was a little wilder time. So I'm going with the Richmond. I agree. That's my upset. Which I don't even think it's real upset. It's probably the top moment. Radless Cage, I mean, it's interesting. He wins. The one thing I didn't love about rattles cage is that that was really the one and only time that i would that i would that dad had like 50 50 cheers and booze not a lot of people really appreciated that that the way he raced uh terry in that in that moment and that was odd for me and a lot of people i think to hear people have this pleasure of what dad was doing on the racetrack there'd been plenty of people that hated what he did on the track wrecking uh sterler marlin at bristol and

in all kinds of other moments, right? But mostly people cheered it, right? It was like a lot of those things made him popular, but that particular one did not go over with. I think because everybody had so much respect for Terry and how clean Terry was as a racer. So that leaves us now with a semi-final round. I can't remember what you picked in the...

Did you pick Watkins Glen Sternum, or did you pick rollover back in the car? All right, here we go. Round. Yeah, round two. Daytona 500 and 1997, Daytona. The 97 Daytona is him climbing back in the car after the rollover. Obviously, the Daytona 500 win in 98 is what I'm going to choose here. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. Although I have the Walkins Glen Sternham thing, but I still think the 98 Daytona, Daytona 500 is too iconic.

We're going Talladega 2000, where he comes from 18th to first in the final few laps, and the windshield wiping at Bristol or at Richmond. I believe he did that in 86 or 87. He goes on to win there as well that day. 2000. I'm going to go with the 2000 Daga. Me too. So I am too. Now, Alex? I'm going Wiper. You're going Wiper?

Yeah. All right. So then that leaves, Dale and I have the same championship game here. That's, Dale and I have the 1998 Daytona 500 versus the 2018th of first Talladega race, whereas you have the 1998 Daytona 500 versus the Richmond windshield, which you can't even name the date or the name of the race or anything about it, but you got it in your championship. I got that moment. Okay. Okay.

I'm going to go. with our final round. The Daytona 500, 1998 win versus the Dega 2000. Alex has the wiper, wiping the windshield at Richmond. I'm going to say Daytona 98. And the reason is,

um, the, the, when he pulls down on the pit road and all the crews come out to shake his hand, I don't think we've ever seen a moment quite like that in our sport. Um, this same thing happened to Tony Stewart on his final race as he pulled off

pit road, which was very touching. But that, to see the crews, you would never, you know, go out of your way to congratulate another driver as a crewman, right? I mean, you had friends, right? And drivers may go into Victory Lane and quickly say, hey, man, patch you on the back, or old friends may give themselves a high-fiber hug. But never really does the entire industry sort of in unison line up and do that.

Just a really fascinating moment that I thought was telling about what dad meant to the sport. And so for me, that's it. Listen, I'm not going to say it any better than that. I've got the 98 Daytona 500 is our champion here. Although the Talladega race was won. You talk about just badass moments, man. That will always be up there. But you're right, 98 Daytona 500 was iconic.

So the question is, Alex, are you sticking on with the windshield at risk? Richmond or are you going to do the right thing here? No, it's way too iconic. You can't, you can't upset that. That's why it's the number one seed. All right. So we got another game we're going to play. Me and Mike are going to compete against each other, I think. Are we? Alex, go ahead and tee us up on what this is. Let me cut in real quick. This is Andrew Curlin here because Tim's, Dale, Mike, they didn't really explain this game very well, so I will. This game is called Guess the Driver. They

have a tit-tac-toe board in front of them, but along the top are three race teams and along the left side are three race teams, and they have to pick a driver that race for both teams in that particular square. The rules are simple. I think Tim's was making them up as we go, but let's take a look at the board. Along the top from left to right, we have Morgan McClure Motorsports, the Wood Brothers, and Michael Walser Racing. Down the left side from top to bottom, we have Robert Yates Racing, Hendrick Motorsports, and Richard Childress Racing. We will also post the board on all Dirtymo's social channels so you guys can follow along and play alongside Dale and Mike.

Oh, shit. Oh, God. Dale's going to kill me in this. For example, Morgan McClore Motorsports. Ernie Irving. And Rory Yates Racing. Ernie Irving. Well, I would just guess that one.

Okay, so then it's not a who says it first. It's an alternate turns. Alternate, yes. All right, so do you want to give Dale that one? We can both put Ernie in the box. Yes. All right. So put Ernie in that box. So Dale goes, Ervin. So now, Mike, you can pick any one of these squares and try to match up a driver. So I got to pick... God, I am going to suck at this. I feel so nervous. Like, there's so many obvious things here, and I'm just, I'm going to tense up here. Hold on. Give me a second. I have just think here. Which one am I going to focus on?

Okay, I can do Wood Brothers and Robert Yates easily. Go. What do you got? Ricky Rutt. Ricky Rudd, correct. All right. Michael Waltrop Racing and... Oh, is it my... So now it's Dale. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I will do... Wood Brothers and Hendrick Motorsports. Oh. Okay. And it's Kenny Shrader. Yes. There can be also multiple answers. I don't have to explain that.

All right. But these are... Okay. All right, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. I've got to go... I've got to go RCR and Michael Waltrop Racing because he's got... Yeah.

He's got a... You got a black hole. right here. Yep. All right, just give me a second. He gets the timer, of course, right?

Yeah. He can't just have forever. What's my time? Two minutes? Oh, yeah, I'll be able to come up with something two minutes. That's a long time. It's tough. Easy, I'm trying to concentrate.

It's so easy. This is a piece of cake, Mike. Boyer. There you go. Mm-hmm. I blocked him. Blocked him. All right.

I will go, I'm going to go, Morgan McClure and RCR. All right. And it's going to be Mike Skinner. Mike Skinner. Dang it. The bottom left.

Dang it. That means I've got to come up with it. That means I got to come up with. Hendrick Motorsports and Morgan McClure? This might be the most obscure one. All right. All right, hold on. He's obscure.

Morgan McClure and Hendrick Motorsports. What driver ran for both those dang teams? I'm trying to think when we've had more like Tony Glover on who did we talk about? Who was, all right, before Ernie, Sterling never did. Who was after? Who was after?

Hold up. I just saw a notification on my phone and I was really hoping it was Tiff giving me an answer. Turns out it's just Xfinity Racing tweeting something. Morgan McClore and Hendrick Motorsport.

Just time out. Stop my time. Dale, do you know the answer to this? Do you just have, do you know who this would be? Why would I tell you? I'm not asking you to tell me. I'm asking, do you know it? If I said yes, then you're going to move to the other box.

Oh, no, I'm, I don't feel like I'm, I'm, I'm just wondering if this is so obscure that you don't even know it. I haven't thought about it yet. I'm thinking about the other one. Oh, God, he's strategizing. All right, hold on. I'm almost there. Do you have one minute left? Okay.

Do you want a hint? Yes. It's not necessarily. a guy who ran the full season. Oh, I'm not even thinking about full season guys. No, I'm thinking about who is those anomalies. Like, if maybe, I'm trying to think, like, did Terry Labani run a race for Morgan McClure or something like that? Now, even though he was a full-timer for Hendrick, but he also had those years when he was in the 44. 30 seconds.

I don't know the answer to that one. When I say it, it's going to be good. You're going to be a freaking I remember that. Yeah. All right. I'm going to go. Five seconds. Oh, shit.

God. Two, one. Do you have a final guess? No, I mean, I know they're all wrong. I don't even, like. Any guess. I mean, like, Craven never ran for him. Like, I'm trying to think of Hendrick drivers.

No, I can't, I can't come up with anybody. All right. If you go to Dale, do you pass? If I give a guess and it's incorrect, is that it? You can get a free guess on this one because he basically lost his turn. If not, you have to move on to another one. I'm having a tough time with the Robert Yates' Michael Waltrop Racing. I'm trying to make Michael's team wasn't around that long.

They just had a handful of drivers. Well, I know that one. I absolutely know that one. Is that obvious? Yeah. Pretty obvious. All right, then if it's that obvious, I need to think about it. But you have no guess.

Just go ahead and rule out the Morgan McClure-Hendrick Motorsports so I can at least get Alex to tell us the answer to that. Well, then the box goes cold. You probably didn't think all the way through it. I didn't think we got to that far. I didn't think that we got that would be the last one. Who is it? Joan Imichick. Oh, son of a b***.

So the Michael Walter Bracin one, I mean, what? It's obvious. Michael didn't drive for Yeats Clint did not drive for Yates Truex did not Mark Martin did not Alex I texted you is that is that right

yes that's one of them that's one of them oh there's multiple yes there's two that I thought of yeah I want him to not get this like I've wanted I have never wanted something in my entire life than this moment I do not want him to get it yeah this one's where we had

on the timer. 55 seconds. 55 seconds. If you can guess it, guess it, Mike, you can have it. I've already got it. You're giving up?

You're giving up your final 45 seconds? I suppose, yeah. Dale Jarrett. Oh yeah. Yep. Yep, DJ. All right, that one goes to Mike. So now, Dale, you need to get the Michael Walter Racing Hendrick Motorsports one.

It ain't over. For me, it is. Oh, it is. You have to get the Michael Walter Bracing Hendrick Motorsports one, which is middle right, or Mikelinson. Wait, it's my turn. Yeah, but you just went because he gave up his turn to get you. No, no, no.

Remember, he got to guess on the Hendrick Morgan McClure thing because I didn't, and then he was going to get his turn. That was his turn. Yes, you're right. I guessed it, and now it's my turn. Now it's back to you. That was your rules. I didn't make up the rules. I forgot I made up that rule, yeah.

So I get to go with, let's see here, I'm going to go for the win. How? I'm going to go for because I got these two rights. But you didn't guess that one. Clint Boyer and Delitz. Jared. I just did. But then it's my turn. All right. Tims, are you going to, are you going to change the rules in the middle of the game? When, in what tic-tac-to-to-c-c-goat-tick-tto-game do you get to go back-to-back times? He gave his free guess and got it, so now he gets to go again. That's right.

This ain't make it take it. In my version, it's make it take it. I've got a game to win right now, so let me concentrate here. Michael Autop Racing versus Hendrick Motorsports. You only have a minute left. Okay, okay. Jesus. This is a weird one. I don't think it's that weird when it's going to get announced. Dale Jarrett, Michael Walter, Clint Boyer.

Who am I missing? I'm missing somebody obvious. 30 seconds. He crashed at Texas into the wall really, really hard. We have the car in the graveyard. Ten seconds. I have a win at my fingertips and I can't. I'm freezing up.

Five, four, three, two, one. All right, you got to guess. Mark Martin. Yes, sir. Mark Martin drove for Michael Walter Bracing? Yeah. Yeah. He's 55.

Yeah, 55. How many races? Like, for a couple of years, like part-time, couple years. He did? Yeah. He shared it with Brian Vickers, which is also another correct now. Was this his fourth or fifth retirement tier? Probably 16th.

Oh, dang it. I still don't remember Mark Martin driving that. All right. So the only one is the middle bottom, which is Wood Brothers RCR. So there's no winner in this game. That no one got, yes. This is a draw. Have we gotten the Wood Brothers Yates?

Yes, Mike got that one. It was Ricky Rudd. Oh. So this is, yes. So like, as Tiff said, this would be the winner take all. So the first person to get this one right wins. And this is who drove for both Wood Brothers and RCR? Yes.

I got it. Who? Has Ricky Rudd ever run for R. RCR? Like even a race. Richard. I don't believe so. You don't even know?

You gave up your answer. That wasn't one I had on mine, but I can double check. Back in the 80s? Back in the 80s when all that Jimmy Jacket was going around? I will double check. Do you know? Dale wouldn't even admit it. I don't think Ricky Rudd drove.

RCR. Yeah, I don't think it was RCA. It was another team. I think you need to take a look. I think I might be right. Well, why he's doing that, I'm going to try to. figure it out. I'm right.

I'm right? Yeah, they did. There you go. Ricky Rudd. Boom! Why is that so hard? Like, I know Ricky Rudd drove for RCR.

Why is that so down hard to remember? RCR's first NASCAR went at Riverside. At least I made the trash tank. Yeah, there you go. Good job, Mike. I need you to really kind of start studying up on your NASCAR. I'll show up. I had,

I thought you were going to say Paul Minard. I want a victory beer. I couldn't even know what that felt like last week when we had that. I need a victory beer. This is the Daytona 500 for me. This is. Good job, Mike. I got a beer coming.

Here it comes. I need a bud light. It's the heaviest thing we got. That's pretty impressive. It is fun. It's harder than it than you would think. It's very hard. It's hard to come up with the guys.

I mean, Riecky Rudd's the obvious answer. And I don't know why I wouldn't. I'm thinking, no. Nobody drove for Richard Tilders racing. I was looking, I was digging in the later years, like the Clint Boyer years. I just want to thank my team. Listen, everybody worked hard today. I am just, you know, I kind of say thank you to my wife.

I want to say thanks to everybody that made this possible. What a day. I'm going to celebrate this one when we get home tonight, boys. All right, y'all. Oh, we're doing a podcast, aren't we? Yeah, we are. We are closing this one out. That was a great show, a lot of fun.

Keep these games coming, Alex. Let's do some more guest driver. I got to redeem myself. Good Lord. We'll do another one next week. Got a headache. That hurt. That's a hard one.

It was. For you. We got a short track insider with Hannah Newhouse coming up. She's going to give us all the happenings in the grassroots world of auto racing. And that'll be the show. Appreciate y'all. Enjoy what Hannah has to offer here. and we'll see you next week.

Welcome back to Short Track Insider, and man, Mother Nature just got the best of most tour racing over the weekend, canceling a majority of racing due to cold temperatures and expected rain. Although a few series were able to sneak in their racing while teams and fans braved the brisk conditions. One of those races was the St. Patty's Day 150

and the Easter Bunny 150 ran over the weekend at Hickory Motor Speedway with both races taking place on Saturday after Friday's rather rained out the St. Paddy's Day 150. Nova Scotia's Cole Butcher swept both the past features after racing almost 300 laps of feature racing on Saturday. That was not including all of the practice and stuff that they had to push into Saturday due to weather. So congratulations to Cole Butcher on that. As well as the Rattler 150 also took place at South Alabama Speedway where Bubba Pollard finally found his way to Victory Lane

and have the chance to snap his photo with the famed rattlesnake. That would be a no thank you on that one. For me, they can keep that rattlesnake. That might be one that I probably wouldn't want to win, simply for the snake in victory lane. But nonetheless, this upcoming weekend is a relatively tame one, but the weather looking much more favorable for racing, especially across the south. The cars tour is back in action after a weekend off. They head to Florence Motor Speedway in Florence, South Carolina, for a late model stock car weekend only. And one of the things headlining the weekend is a new procedural rule that will be in place as the cars tour implements the Choose Cone rule.

on restarts for the first time since the inception of the series in 2015. The errands 125 is scheduled for Saturday the 25th and can be watched on Flow Racing. Of course, a lot of excitement going into the weekend after a great kickoff at Southern National Motorsports Park a couple weeks ago, Deke McCaskill looking to double down, go back to back, and a lot of guys looking to dethrone him, a couple of rookies looking to break through as well. So you can tune in and, of course, watch that on Flow Racing. Also this weekend, the World of Outlaw, Noss Energy Sprint cars head south after being in Pennsylvania over the weekend as they take on the Talladega dirt track on Friday and Magnolia Motor Speedway in Mississippi on Saturday. Both of those events can be found on Dirt Vision. The XR Super Series was supposed to run $100,000 to win spring thaw this weekend at Volunteer Speedway, but that race has actually been rescheduled.

It is now scheduled for April 14th and 15th and will be available to watch on XR Events.com. And lastly, some West Coast late model racing as the Spears SRL Southwest Tour heads to Kern County Raceway Park for the eighth annual winter showdown. Both pro late models and super late models are expected and you can watch it all on Spears Racing.TV. So again, hopefully Mother Nature all across the country is more favorable as you get out and support your local racetrack. Support it whether you can get there in person or of course so many different streaming opportunities available to support drivers. teams and tracks alike across the country. So we'll have you covered all week next week on the racing to watch and what happened here on Short Track Insider.

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