The Dale Jr. Download - 435 - The Intimidator Stories That Left Dale Jr. and Mike Shocked

Episode Date: April 6, 2023

As things wind down for the week of Dirty Mo Media programming, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and co-host Mike Davis reunite to examine their illuminating interview with Tony Furr. They discuss how Tony’s insight painted a unique picture of Dale Earnhardt Sr., and detailed a lot of experiences that likely helped mold him into one of stock car racing’s greatest drivers. They also preview next week’s Business in Motorsports installment with Kelley Earnhardt-Miller and Marcus Smith, and Dale sets out to even the score with Mike in another round of tic-tac-toe. 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.

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Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. back again. In the Bojangles studio for another episode of the Dale Jr. download, my co-host, Mike Davis. It is Thursday, April 6th. And we are coming off of yesterday's show. show where we had a great conversation with Tony Furr. Tony Furr probably not a name that a lot of our newer NASCAR fans are aware of. Won a couple races at the cup level was one of the guys that always kind of had a reputation for cheating or, you know, creative ideas within the NASCAR rulebook. And we pushed him a little bit to give us some of those stories. And, um,

also one of the things that I was pretty excited about was to be able to learn some of the things that he knew about my dad my dad drove race cars for him at metro line back when dad was flat broke and things were tough man and Mike we learned some things about dad that I didn't know which rarely happens but it does happen and when it does happen it's always at this table yeah like I'm not learning these things out in the out in the wilderness but we learned that Deller and Hart uh run around without a driver's license. Yeah. Probably had a couple of, you know, DUIs, whatever. Tony wasn't sure, but he lost his license. And I knew, you know, by listening to Tony Sr. And my uncle Robert G. That dad was wide-ass open on the highways, you know, speeding, breaking laws, doing whatever.

And so there's no surprise to me, I guess, that he run a foul and got himself in a little bit of trouble and lost his license. But, you know, the fact that he might have been running around for years without one and no care in the world still driving up and down the road. Pretty crazy. Brazen. Very brazen. Tony might have been sarcastic, but he might not have been when he said that he said, Dale Earnard's first driver's license might have come at the age of 31. Yeah. And so I was.

Good heavens. I asked Tony about what disagreements that my dad and my grandfather, Robert G, might have had. my grandfather on my mother's side. So, you know, dad and mom get split up and divorced right around the time that Tony has my dad driving his dirt car, 77, 78. And I had heard stories where my mom had to talk some sense into my father after a race at Metralina where I guess dad was driving someone else's car but got into a an argument or a fight at the racetrack with Robert G.

And dad was, you know, was really out of his mind. And Mama had to talk him off the ledge there. And I was trying to see if Tony knew anything about that particular story, but he's telling me a whole different story where dad, you know, goes over to Robert G's and Robert G comes out to build him, going to give him a whoop him with a fan belt. With a fan belt, yeah. And which is interesting.

And, you know, hey, man, they had a divorce. They had fights. They had arguments. They, I know my mom. And I know my dad. And I bet there were some really nasty, nasty arguments. And I'm sure that if mom went over to Robert G's and told him what all went down, he's absolutely going to be infurious, right?

And one will take after and look after his daughter. And so for, the balls that dad had to even. go over there knowing there could be some potential hurt feelings and frustrations. I can't even imagine. The times that my dad lived and the way they lived in the 70s, right before dad's cup career took off, right before that, right, 76, 77, 78. He was a pistol. He was a handful. How about the stories of throwing out the...

The lug nuts out of the car just to break windows of people that pissed him off. That's crazy. That's crazy. It don't sound like the same guy. I know. You know? I mean, I did some dumb shit. Hitting mailboxes with baseball bats, and I regret it.

Everybody or anybody ever tore up your mailbox, I feel like a real ass shit. And it's kind of along those lines, I guess. Me and some buddies, we bought some eggs, go on, egg some cars, egg some dry, egg some things. I don't know what the hell we're going to do. We're going to throw eggs at shit. Yeah. We're driving down the road. We got the eggs and cart and eggs sitting in my buddy's lap and pickup truck.

That's probably 16. And we're driving in oncoming traffic, right, in the other lane. He tossed an egg over the top of the truck and it hit the front of this box van and sound like a damn shotgun because it's on my side. I didn't know what the hell he threw over. I couldn't believe an egg made such a loud racket. but dangerous, you know, and, you know, so I'm not going to sit here and be a hypocrite and say, what the hell is daddy thinking? I don't know a lot of dumb stuff, but goodness, man.

Oh, the hypocrisy would be if he got mad at you for the eggs. That's the thing, like he did. He would, you know, I stole a traffic cone, right? Who doesn't steal a traffic cone in their time, right? We were riding around in the back of the mall. Ain't nobody in the parking lot. Hey, man, grab it damn cone. when I drive by it, grab the cone

and just kind of swing it into the bed of the truck and here we go. I take the cone home and Daddy gets all pissed off because I got a cone. Where'd you get the cone? Take it back. I'm like, shit. Man, ain't no big deal with it.

100 of them out there. You know, everybody needs a traffic home in their bedroom. And, you know, I wish he was here. I'd be like, hey, what the hell, dude? Sit down and tell me some of these stories. We don't got to record it for the podcast. There's so many what the hell. Yeah, like, come on.

Clean up. Tell me about it. Come clean with all this stuff. Nitrous and everything. Nitrous. Yeah. Listen, I didn't ask that to Tony yesterday, but it was Tommy Russell that told us the first nitrous story, right? And as I put the timeline together, he drove for Tommy Russell before he drove for Tony Fur.

That's right. So you know that those Tony Fur. Tony Fur's like everybody had to run nitrous. You know he was running nitrous with Tony Fur too. I didn't ask him. It's in my mind. I'm just assuming that he's saying everybody ran it. Yeah.

So, and he's talking about all the different ways. You would hide it, hide the bottle. But anyways, you know that that was going on. I don't think it was a one-time thing with Tommy Russell. But how about the story, Dale, of them getting run out of the race for him planting the guy,

for the six-dry. Dickie Armstrong or whatever his name was. Yeah, wrecking him, the rain coming out, and then him having to jump off the truck. Yeah. On to the, I mean, like, has you ever heard that? No. That is insane.

It also feels a little heroic, too. I mean, like, I thought that that just added in a good way to this whole, like, legacy and badassery of Dale Earnhardt. I don't know if you felt the same way. I did. All right. So, they're broke, and they know they need the first or second place money. And they are, they get passed by Granddaddy's car. And he tried to, you know, from.

listening to Tony, Daddy tried to move him, but didn't, you know, didn't have the speed to do it. And I don't know that he would have planted him into the guardrail, being that as Granddaddy's car and a park right next to each other. But he wrecks the hell out of the other guy that he don't know. Hell, this guy comes from Florida, some hot shoe from, you know, this. Trying to take the money. Yeah, he's like, you know, hell, this guy, hell, man, I'll wreck his ass. And he hooks him and wads him up. And, uh, because I'm against that says how bad.

had he needed that money. Yeah. That's a hell the thing, man. I've never ran a race. So I can't put myself in that frame of mind because I've never ran a race sitting there going, oh, shit, I can't lose this position because I'm not going to make the money I need to make. You know what I mean? With a whole new radiator, too.

But I'm just saying, how do you, how, I've never, unfortunately for me, I don't know that I or a lot of people in this day and age have ever been in the race car thinking, you know, you're going to. I'm going to finish in this position. I don't give a damn what it takes. And literally wrecking a guy into the fence is what one of the things I'll do. Yeah. And he does it.

Desperate times, man. Yeah, I was just thinking, racing to survive sounds a lot like what that would be. Anytime else you use it. That sounds like an overstatement. But I think that's exactly what they were doing. So listen to Tony Senior tell some stories about dad. around this time, during this time, right? Dad worked as a welder at Great Dane

and would, if he needed to go race and the work would not accommodate that, he quit. Because he knew that he could walk in there a month later and get the same job back. Because he was, you know, he was a hard worker, knew how to do the shit and they needed it. They needed the guy.

But the thing about that is is what I'm trying to bring up and listen to my mom tell stories. Tony's fur confirmed it a little bit here. Tony Sr. Dad would, dad wanted to race. And he did whatever it took to race.

He would quit work. He would quit, you know, he would quit a job, lose his pay check. for however many weeks. We'd eat scraps, you know, we'd eat balona sandwiches every day. And, you know, the rent or the power or whatever, the electrical, all that stuff would get pushed back. Not paid on time.

We'd go without, we'd go without, we'd go without the, you know, heater. You know, they had these tanks on the back of the trailers that you'd have to fill up to have heat, to burn the flame and heat the house. And he'd come in there with $2 worth or $5 worth just kind of piecing it together, right? Never filling that 40-gallon tank up or whatever, you know, whatever that 55-gallon tank. And so, you know, he just was like day-to-day, just like Tony said, you know, they had, I can't get it today. I ain't got the money. All right, we'll try to get it tomorrow. what do I got to do tomorrow,

what do I got to do now to get that money to do that? You know, and it was literally going from, you know, buck to buck. And he would quit his job to go race, and everything else had to suffer, you know, bills, the family, Christmas, whatever, right? And he knew what he needed to make to race or to get to the racetrack and buy the tires he needed. And if he couldn't, you know, and he's all, he's running around getting, you know,

he's running around to Robert G. Tom Pistone, Tommy Russell, and anyone else who would give him something for nothing, you know, hey man, I've got a hole in my radiator. I ain't buying a brand new damn radiator. Breaking into junkyards? Yeah. Midnight.

Right. Probably the same junkyard he was in earlier that day, getting the motor out of it. Exactly. He's walking around in there going, damn, I need that too. I'm coming here tonight. I'm going to come in here at midnight and get it.

And just brazen. So brazen. I can't believe how just brazen he was. Like Tony said, he was fearless. Yeah, but I mean, there seems to be context around that now that really is telling about your dad. For me, at least we've had a bunch of guests on here that have talked about your dad and was even from that time. But to be honest with you, this is the first time that I was listening to stuff where I'm like, okay, maybe this actually explains a lot about him. I mean, like, hear me out on this.

If he's literally racing to survive or racing to make it to the next race, right and you're saying to yourself i must finish here to be able to make it to the next paycheck or make to the winner or to yeah like get through the winter right i i had a great aunt who grew up in the great depression she ended up she died extremely wealthy extremely wealthy you never know it she never threw anything away she grew up in the great depression and so it affected her the rest of her life 90 years where you would never know because she never would throw anything away because she grew up in the most repressible years. Her young years were in the Great Depression, also trying to survive.

I'm just saying sometimes if that's when you're growing up and maybe that's, maybe he's racing that way the rest of his life just because that's all he knew. That's in his most depressurable years when he's trying to make it. He's like, hell yeah, I'm going to put a dang door to you. Doesn't matter how successful or how many championships he has at that point. Yeah. It's who he is as a racer. Yeah. It's how he grew up.

I don't know. It just, to me, Tony Furr gave us a lot of context behind how we ended up with the intimidator. And that was from, it sounded to me like a guy that was just trying to make it through the winter, like you said. Yeah. That was a hell of a way to say it.

Yeah. I was glad he was honest. We had to, we had to pride out of him. He wasn't, because he didn't want to talk bad about dad. He didn't want to say, he was like, man,

you know, I don't want to tell you about the lug nuts, right? You know, but we eventually broke him, got him comfortable. He doesn't have much of a poker face. So, like, he would grin through everything. What did you think?

Oh, go ahead. I was just, you know, I'm glad that he finally, you know, trusted us. We're like, hey, man, just tell us the truth. If we think it's, you know, too insane, you know, it's a podcast. It's not live. We can make adjustments. But anyway, I was a great conversation. I was glad we got him over here.

I was, you know, interested in his own career as a cup crew chief and so forth. And good to hear some of those stories. and his frustrations over some things that happened in his career and how he learned how to get those cars to go really fast at Daytona and Talladega and so forth. The rate, you know, he ends up going there and winning with John Andretti in Cali Yarbril's car, you know, in a car that nobody thought was a front-running car. But he could find ways to make it go fast. Yeah. I really felt like he is an innovator.

I think we use the work. We use innovator almost as tongue-in-cheek about talking about a cheater. but like I got the sense that he was really innovative. Well, it's a less insulting way. I mean, you don't want to sit across from a guy like that and go, tell me how you cheated, man. Tell me how the things you did to cheat. You're going to, you know, you say innovator because you don't want to insult them.

Yeah, and you want them to tell you the story. And, you know, it's so much time has passed. You know, I hope these guys, you know, understand that it doesn't mean, it doesn't mean anything. It's not a knock against their, you know. It's a compliment. It's a compliment. At least here it is.

For him, yeah, it is. In this room, you're going to be appreciated for, you know, sharing some of the ways that you were creative and saw holes in the rulebook or found ways to get a car through tech and, you know, past the prying eyes of, you know, NASCAR officials. The breakaway jackbolts, you know, good heavens. Incredible. What a genius.

Yeah. Some dude that's making springs down in Georgia. or whatever is coming up with these things. I mean, like, wow. Yeah, man. Pretty fun. Great conversation. I hope you guys will, if you haven't listened to it,

well, I know a lot of people are talking about our Thursday show. Really appreciate it. Thank you for that too. Give us a lot of great compliments on our Thursday show, a wrap-up show. I wasn't sure how popular this one would be, but we have a lot of fun on it. But anyways, I hope you'll go back and listen to Tony's conversation. A lot of cool things in there. Make sure that you remember next week, we won't have a Dale Jr.

download but business and motor sports part two Kelly Earnhardt's new podcast. We'll be running next week in this time slot next Tuesday. They have Marcus Smith and I know we've had Marcus on a lot, but Kelly's going to be asking him questions that I haven't thought to ask. They're going to be diving into the business model. And Mike, you told me that you guys got some input on what he believes the future is for North Wilsonboro Speedway. I'm anxious to hear that. I know we've kind of asked him that, but now that we're this far down the road, and North Wiltsboro is a true reality, and what does it mean?

What is going to happen after this All-Star Race? We're going to go to the All-Star Race. Have a great time, but I'm more worried about what goes on at Wilkesboro beyond that. I know that he wants the car store to come back multiple times a year. So I know that he has a plan that that place will continue to function. He would not be putting all this effort in and renovation in for it not to have a long-term future. So what is that? I hope you guys got some great answers from Marcus. I got one more question I want to throw at you real quick.

I asked Marcus, because, you know, there's a perception out there from us that just read Sports Business Journal or whatever it is, is it like, you know, there's that these negotiations between RTA and the track owners and NASCAR are tents. And maybe they are, right? But the fact is that we wanted to know a little bit about that from the track vantage point. But more than that, I wanted to know what can the tracks be doing better with the teams to improve that relationship? Because I sense that there's a little tension or a little just frustration that the drivers don't do enough to help support the tracks. The teams will tell you the tracks just charge them too much for just to be able to park a souvenir trailer.

And so it's like, hey, let's just go, what can we do? If we're all in this together, what can the tracks be doing better to help that relationship? And what can the drivers and race teams be doing better for the tracks? Kelly's first installment of business of motorsports was well received. People really loved to hear how Kelly. Kelly's, I mean, let's be honest. Kelly's better at the business side of this than I am. She knows a lot more about what's going on in the sport and knows.

is exactly the type of questions that need to get asked in these situations when you can sit in front of these people. The first installment of that was really well received. I think this one will be too. That's right. We got a couple announcements to make the sundrop paint scheme announcement. That's right, this morning. All right. So going back to North Walesboro Speedway with a sundrop car for All-Star Week, a lot of people might have saw that coming. But if you didn't, yeah, we're going to bring that car back and run it again. One of the reasons why I wanted to run this car again. Not only do I love the nostalgia of the paint scheme itself. We have a new

partnership with Sundrop to help promote their brand around this area, which I love. My father had the same relationship with them years ago. But Lionel will have a new tool for the late model

stock car. So they've used an old, old tool for last year's car. Heard a lot of response from fans. They want a new modern tool or modern mold for the late model stock car and you will be able to buy and I can't wait to get my hands on it

the new modern take on the Lionel late model stock car and why is this important not only for our fans myself to get this sundrop car right I have one of the older models right here on the desk it's going to be cool to get this car this sundrop car in a modern take but I know that there's a lot of people

out there that love to do the customs. Oh, that's right. Right. And so Lionel will sell a lot of these sundrop cars that are actually going to get sandblasted and redone as their own custom designs. There's a lot of guys out there, girls out there that are doing these customs themselves. I buy customs on eBay from a particular guy that creates a lot of different customs that I enjoy collecting.

And so I think, you know, Lionel probably. appreciates the people that are buying these die-ass for whatever reason it is. We're going to see some really cool customs come out. A lot of the guys that run into cars too are going to be lining up to get their customs made by some folks. So that's just a neat thing that, you know, there's a tool. There's a car out there that you'll be able to, you know, if you drive a light mile stock car, you'll liable to be able to have your own car custom-made using this die-ass car. So that's kind of cool.

Also, me and Marcus Smith are going to be on Race Hub tonight. All right. on race up tonight. Ain't going to tell you why. You'll have to tune in, but we've got something cool to tell you. All right. Looking forward to it.

Yep. Make sure you, you know, make sure you're tuning in this weekend. Bristol Dirt's going to be a lot of fun watching the truckers race around there. There's a lot of cars or a lot of guys, Cup drivers, Davenport, one of the hottest, if not the hottest, if not the hottest dirt late model race around right now is going to be competing in the truck series as well as the Cup series.

There's going to be a lot of, a lot of really cool things happening at the Bristol Dirt Race this weekend. Easter weekend, I know a lot of people are going to be doing things with their family, but there's some Easter functions happening out at the racetrack. Mike, you talked about it Tuesday on the Dale Jr. download of Dirty Air, where, you know, the track's doing everything they can to make it not only a great race weekend, but also to give you that Easter celebration or that traditional, you know, Easter experience with your family.

So check all that out. Bristol ticks.com is where you can go buy tickets for that race this weekend. I think you should do it. Bristol TX. Also, don't forget, we've got the Denny Hamlin appeal today. We're taping this Thursday morning, so it's not like we know the results of that. But I'm sure that if it comes out here in a little while, maybe after this podcast drops, we'll go on Dirty Mo Live and react to it if there's anything to react to.

But that's appeal day today for Denny. So we'll see how that develops. So we've had a lot of fun on this show on a Thursday show Playing some games, right? And basically what we've done in the past Which is way freaking harder than you think We have You're eating this candy

I am. Can you hear it? I'm doing it too I'm trying hard not to make it obvious But yeah, just so you know These candy cigarettes are legit I mean like we're just sitting here chewing them and podcasting. Here, let me get rid of it. No, no, don't.

No. I don't want to smack it. Amy's smacking. That was Amy's biggest pet peeve. So, anyways, we played a lot of games on the Thursday show. And basically, you take multiple teams in sort of a tick-tac-toe format and say, okay, what driver has drove for both these teams, and then you get the square, right? And Mike is two and O.

Mike has won both episodes, and dang it, we're going to keep playing until. I win, and then we won't play it ever again. Fair. It's really hard. I think this is the one where you absolutely are going to annihilate me. I don't know, man. I'm telling you right now that this has been a really, really difficult game, but we're going to change it up this time.

It's now sponsors. I guess what sponsor has been with the same driver. And so, Mike, since you're two and O, I'm going to allow you to go first. Right. Go ahead. Alex, set us up. Make sure the listeners know what we're doing. Okay, yeah.

So the same thing as we've played the last two weeks, Tic-Tecto. Across the top, we got Budweiser, Bass Pro Shops, and Coors Light. Then down the left side, we got Mobile 1, McDonald's, and Valvillan. Now, we've kind of flipped back and forth where you can use multiple drivers and you can't.

You can use the same driver for multiple squares, but there is a way to fill out this board without doing so. Okay. But just keep that in mind. For my sanity, I'm changing that rule. So Budweiser, Bass Pro, Coors, Light, across the top, Mobile 1,

McDonald's valveling down the bottom. Yes. Oh, this is Dale's wheelhouse. I'm just saying, this is him. He knows drivers, sponsors. I mean, this is going to be difficult. But let's try it. Now there's one other little stipulation I have.

They had to run multiple races. So they could have ran just two, but no one-offs and stuff. So. But by multiple races, at least two. At least two. Yes. Oh. Okay. So Mike, yes.

You won. You get to go first. I won. I get to go. first. I'm going to go try to I know some but I'm trying to go for the middle. Going to stretch. I'm trying to go for the middle where it's Bass Pro shops and

McDonald's and I'm what? Hold on. McDonald's. 45 seconds. Okay. All right. I can't think of it. I'm just going to go up top right, mobile one, Coors Light. David Strimming? Incorrect. God dang. This is such. This sucks. so bad. All right, I'll take the middle square. Middle square, what do you got?

Mick Murray? Yes, correct. I was thinking McMurray, but I couldn't. I didn't do it. All right, so Dale just took the middle. All right, I'm done. Yep, Dale's got the middle first on the board. And is it his turn? No, it's your turn. No, it's your turn. It's your turn now. There's a couple on here. I thought you'd get right off the bat. All right. Nothing. No, I mean, I'm going after a specific square, but I'm just like, why am I drawing a blank on this? but now I don't want to say what square I'm going after because he'll steal. All right, Budweiser, Valvaline, Dale, Dale Jr.

I thought he only ran once. In Valvaline? Yeah. In Valvaline. That was my research. It was a throwback at Darlington. I couldn't find if you ran it another time. So I caught, no.

Dale could correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I think. Budweiser McDonald's. Bill Elliott. Correct. I just off of course. God dang. Coors Light, all right. And I can use a driver for the second time?

You can, yes. I'll do. Bill Elliott and Coors Light McDonald's. Also, to block Dale. So Dale was going for the win. Now he's done, tell him what they're doing, what he's got. Yes, he was going for the win in the middle square.

Mike blocked him by also using Bill Elliott for Coors Light McDonald's. So now. All right. Butweiser, Vowling. Casey King. God. Is that right? Incorrect. No. That is not. He didn't run? Nope. Didn't run Vavling enough.

Really? Yep. He ran once? Once. Damn. Okay, hold up. I'm back in the game. Door is wide open. Hold up. Geez. Mobile 1. God dang, man. Which one you're looking for?

I ain't telling. All of them. I mean, like, I know who drove the mobile one. None of them drove these three. So Dale still kind of has control of the board here as the middle square. Hold on. How much time I got? You are 40 seconds.

I'm going to say Bass Pro Shops, Mobile 1, Tony Stewart. Correct, yes. So that's the top middle there. It doesn't really help me do anything. I just, it's the only one I can. Top middle, mics on the board. That's all I had. All right.

And now the Dale. Yeah, the Mobile 1 one's tough. Moble 1, Budweiser, Harvick? Yes, correct. Good one. So now that's top left. So now Dale can win if he gets bottom right. So that means I got to go get that.

And that is Valvaline Budweiser. No, Valvline Coorsley. No. Bottom right. Oh, he can win twice. And yes. He's got two things. I didn't even see that.

Didn't fill it in yet. This is Dale's revenge game here. No, he's got this one. All right, hold on. Oh, God. I cannot think of who would drive a valvling car, but I'm just going to guess a bud driver and just say, um,

Darrell Waltrip? Incorrect. All right. Back to Dale. Dale Walter was a good guess, though. I don't remember too many valerine cars. That's my problem. I can't think of him.

They all feel like one-offs. I'm going to go Coors Light Valvaline. Kyle Petty. Kyle Petty is incorrect. I'll go the same box. Kyle Larson. Incorrect. Damn.

Back to Dale. That's, I think, the toughest one. Yeah. Coors Light, Vavilene, Robbie Gordon. Correct. God dang. Robbie Gordon. And Dale wins with the bottom right.

Ran twice for Coors Light and Vavilene. For who? Vivalene for his own car. I believe in 2008. He had his own car. He had a valvine. a couple one-off separate races but ran twice and Corslight he ran for Sapko

Who was the Budweiser Valvilline? Neil Bonnet Which I thought was I thought you guys would get and then the Coorslight Mobile 1 was Kyle Petty Mobile 1 I would have never got

He ran two races for the Penske 12 in 2000 Kyle Petty ran the Penske 12 What's the Valvaline Bass Pro Shops? Mark Martin, who filled in for Stewart during the gas cross shops and then Valvlin. Filled up for who? Stewart. In one of those couple years where he got.

Yeah, he filled in for Stewart for like half a season or something. Dude, that was hard. And I am impressed. Robbie Gordon, I still, even after you've told me, I cannot even picture him running for Coors Light or Valvene. I remember with Coors Light, but I was guessing on the Balveline. I just assumed that maybe there was a, hey! We're never playing these games again. I hope you enjoyed it.

We'll see you later. I was hard. No, that was fun. I like that one, man. The sponsors, all right, I'm good at that. You're better at the other version. Well, I tell you what, that was impressive. Listen.

That was fun. It is fun. Do you get, I think I know what adds to the pressure. I don't know if you feel the same way, but don't you just hear people listening going, how can you not know this? And they're just reeling them off in your head. Like, they're in my head. 100%.

Yeah. Yeah. Two and one now. We've got to have another game next week. One. We're going to have to week. I think you said we're done with this. I end with the winning record.

Well, people can let us know. Should we keep bringing it back? Hey, Alex, how long did it take you to build that board and research that? So it took me a couple hours on Friday. Then I had to come back over the weekend and think about it. And I finished it Monday morning. Damn. All right.

Multiple days. Yeah. All right, everybody. We've got another episode of our short track insider. We're going to jump right into that now with Hannah Newhouse. Here we go. Welcome back to another rundown of. short track insider and how is it already April?

I mean, it's April and still across the country. We've got snow, we've got rain, Mother Nature. She's just, she's just taking us for a spin so far early on in the year. A lot of cancellations over the weekend just due to bad forecast, cold weather, saturated grounds, but a couple of races still able to get their races in essentially. One of those, of course, being the NASCAR wheel and modified tour, who somewhat preluded the weekend into Richmond with NASCAR. And it wasn't really a prelude because their Friday race got pushed into Saturday.

And it was Austin Beers, who was able to win his first NASCAR wheel and modified tour race after being pretty much dominant all weekend long. And again, that race originally was scheduled for Friday was pushed into Saturday. So congratulations to Austin Beers on that. Richmond definitely a cool place to win. There was also supposed to be a double-headed this weekend down at Crisp Motorsports Park on Saturday. and then Mobile on Sunday. But crisp was rained out. So a majority of the field just went ahead and packed up,

drove over and ran Mobile, where a lot of eyes were on the super late model rivalry of Casey Roderick and Bubba Pollard. Again, we talked about that rivalry, kind of what happened on the last lap, I believe, down at five flags a couple weeks ago. But it was Pollard, who was the class of the field and able to take home the $15,000 paycheck on Sunday.

Also on Sunday, there was an exciting Apple Cup race that took place at Tri-Sk. City Raceway for the Northwest Super Late Model series out in Benton City, Washington. And it looked like veteran racer Jonathan Gomez had pretty much set himself up to sail to success at the tricky tri-oval. But young racer Casey Klein tangled with Gomez coming to the checkered flag, handling that win over to Kyle Telstrom. Well, we caught up with Telstrom and got what happened from his perspective and ultimately

being able to take home that checkered flag and that paycheck. From my view, after the restart, I knew that Klein was rattled a little bit and he was into everything he could do, get back to Jonathan's bumper. And I could see from, you know, my 15 cars back so that I was, that he was charged in last couple laps. And I saw him going to three there really hot. And Jacob kind of was up the track, and I saw Klein start shoving up the track towards him.

And so I knew it was coming and just glad it worked out in our favor that we get through without any trouble and, you know, racing sometimes. That's the way it goes. Well, this upcoming weekend is very light in the grand scheme of touring short track racing. A lot of people staying home celebrating Easter. So on Thursday this week, so again, if you're listening to it, the day this drops tonight, Kyle Larson presents Flow Racing Late Model Challenge is taking place at Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap, Tennessee, right up the road from Bristol Motor Speedway.

And man, a large NASCAR presence is expected. Chase Briscoe is running a car prepared by Kyle Strickler and Melanie Motorsports. Kyle Busch is running a car. Kyle Larson is running that Rumley car that he runs all the time. You know, these guys are dirt guys, but a lot of them, of course, taking that into preparation. for Bristol Dirt this upcoming weekend with NASCAR. That race can be watched on Flow Racing. Also on my calendar, I've got the World of Outlaw and Noss Energy Sprint Cars head to the Midwest

with US 36 in Osborne, Missouri on Friday, and 81 Speedway in Park City, Kansas on Saturday. You can watch all World of Outlaw racing on Dirt Vision. Back in action is the Tezos All-Star Circuit of Champions. They'll double down at Attica this upcoming weekend, both Friday and Saturday. And you can watch all of the All-Star races on. on flow racing. And well, if the weekend is over and you still need some midweek racing fix, we're going to go ahead and tell you about all the midweek racing that happens next week,

including the high limit sprint car season, finally set to kick off their 2023 campaign after their initial race was canceled due to rain. So on Tuesday the 11th, the series heads to Lakeside Speedway right outside of Kansas City for their first race of the season. $50,000 to win, of course, that being winged sprint cars. High limit races can be watched. on flow racing. Also, some dirt late model racing, man, just a lot of dirt.

I think that's just the precedent set for this weekend. This weekend is dirt racing weekend in the United States. The Castral Flow Racing Night in America has a double header on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Tuesday being Eldora Speedway and Brownstown Speedway on Wednesday. Those races, of course, on Flow Racing. And, you know, things are back in swing next weekend. After most series, teams, tracks are all going to take this weekend off to enjoy Easter weekends with their family. So we hope you have a safe weekend. Again, if you're looking for that racing fix,

a lot of local tracks are starting their regular seasons. Look them up. Check their Facebook pages out. Check their websites. Follow the local racers. Get out and support your local short track. So next week, we'll have you covered on who won where and what's coming up on Short Track Insider. All right, everybody. Great job, Hannah. I hope you enjoyed that. It's great to hear about what's going on in the short track world out there. And Hannah does a great job bringing us, bringing that to us every single week. Remember, only one show next week. That's the Business of Motorsports,

part two. My sister Kelly Earnhardt interviews Marcus Smith with Mike Davis. And that airs Tuesday. And that's it for next week. Me and Mike are going to take off. Mike, you got something here. Where are you going?

I'm going to the Grand Canyon. Okay. Mike's going to the Grand Canyon. Where are you going? I am not doing that. I'm actually working. I've got to do a couple things for NBC. Okay.

But we're going to have a little. little break and you guys are going to enjoy that business of motorsports part two. Hope you enjoyed this Thursday show. You guys, make sure you tune in to hear Tony Furr yesterday's guest on the Dale Jr. download. Doorbubber clear guys. Action is detrimental. Yeah.

Action detrimental. We'll be looking forward to, you know, Denny's response to whatever happens today in the appeal. That's that. You know, Speed Street's got, Chandler Smith was on DBC this week. DBC is a marathon of an episode and they are all over. over the board, but if you can hang on, that's a good show to listen to. It's been a busy week at Dirtymo Media.

We are grinding. Our whole team has been wide, wide open, putting out content, working their guts out. And I hope you guys all appreciate it out there, all the hard work they're doing. But we'll see you next week. Enjoy Bristol Dirt. I'll be tuning in going away to see some family this weekend in Texas for Easter weekend, but we'll be tuned in checking out what all the racers are doing. doing out on the racetrack. Well, have a good weekend, man.

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