The Dale Jr. Download - 52 - Talladega: Hard Lessons Learned

Episode Date: May 6, 2014

Dale Earnhardt Jr. shares his candid thoughts on a disappointing finish at Talladega; fans share their emotion on Reaction Theatre. 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. You mean to tell me, being the fifth car in line on the bottom, coming to the finishes, rewight of Daytona like that, wasn't the right move? You lost me. What was the first word you said?

That's when he lost me. In other words, TJ, you just keep spotting. This is the Dale Jr. download presented by Spy. Go to Spyoptic.com now and check out their exclusive offer for Dirtymoor radio listeners. take 20% off your purchase of any Dale Jr. signature 88 collection sunglasses just by entering code. Dale, yeah. Check out. A lot of shirts, a lot of stickers in Talladega over the weekend.

Those things are going like a wildfire. With Mike Davis and Amanda Troutman, I am Taylor Zarzer. It is the Dale Jr. download. Mike, I'm sure, like everybody else, you had a lot of thoughts racing through your head with that race for the 88. before we hear your thoughts, before I share mine, before anybody and everybody shares theirs, let's just hear what Dale Jr. had to say because we could sit here all day and talk about accountability or what happened or what he should have done or be frustrated. But the fact that this man is willing to face the music and talk to this audience exclusively

is what I respect most about him. And maybe you heard it on Amanda's recap that she does on Monday, but we got to play it again here right now. Here's Dale Jr. Hey, everybody. Just got home from Caledega. Not a good day. Just real disappointed and obviously how we finished, disappointed and how I ran the race and disappointed in a lot of things.

But we, you know, run around there and I had plenty of race car. And we got ourselves some track position and actually got up into the lead and was able to really hold the lead pretty easily. I felt like that everything was working out like we planned it. and we were going to be up there in the top five the rest of the day, and, you know, trying to win the race was going to be on our mind the rest of the deal. But we didn't feel like we could make it on fuels, so we gave up the lead. A couple of them guys gambled and made it work.

You know, 20 laps there, there was really nowhere to go and no point in sitting there and riding in the back of it. And they ended up wrecking a couple times. And, you know, but there at the end, I didn't do what I needed to do. In the last 10 laps of the race, when I should have been up there, getting a little more aggressive than trying to find spots and positions. I didn't do what I was supposed to do. I know a lot of people's disappointed, and I'm disappointed that they're disappointed.

I feel like that I should have put on a better effort just for the people that come out there and watch this race and obviously my crew. So I feel like I let a lot of people down. And I'll just have to live with that. That's the decision I made, and that's how it all works out. And I've got to move on to the next race, not really spend too much time worrying about it. So hate it all come out like that. And I learned, you know, some pretty good lessons, some pretty hard lessons today. hopefully we won't ever have a repeat of that again.

There you go. There are his thoughts there. And I have to tell you, Mike, I know a lot of people were disappointed, and quite honestly, they should have been. Yeah. And what happened on Sunday? There's no dancing around it. They should have been disappointed in what happens.

And I don't want to come across as a bunch of homers here because of what you just heard there. But the thing that I appreciate more than anything else about Dale Earnhardt Jr., is that accountability right. there whenever anybody asked me about this podcast mike and was it like to work with him and his reaction to it that's the first thing i say is just how much he cares about the people that care about him you can clearly tell there by his words i'm disappointed that you're disappointed you know i mean that's the fact that he gave that much accountability after the race there's some

other people in that race that could have shown a lot more accountability and every week it doesn't matter what we're talking about sports or anything else there are people that aren't accountable their actions. I greatly appreciate how accountable he was. And you know what? He should be disappointed in what happened on Sunday. It was a bad day all around. No question. Well, that's a man stepping up and taking ownership of what happened. And I can appreciate that just like you can, Taylor. I hope the fans appreciate that. And I got to tell you something else. It makes me proud the fact that we've had this forum like Dirty Moe Radio in which Jr. can go home after he's had time to think about how that race played out. And then he can lay down

his thoughts for us on Dirty Moe Radio. So, you know, there's a lot of things to appreciate there. And I hope through all the emotions, and I will never tell a fan how they should feel or, you know, that they're wrong for feeling one way. There was a lot of opinions expressed on Twitter for sure. And I respect everyone's opinion. Doesn't mean that I think that they're all educated. Doesn't mean that there's a lot that could have been going on that you don't even know about.

There's a lot could have gone on that I don't even know about. I'm saying this. At least let's hear from the driver before we start jumping to conclusion. And somebody was going at me on Twitter, and I said, listen, with all due respect, I just as soon hear the driver tell me what happened. Because that's the only one that really matters. And you know what? We got one that tells us. And even if he blames it to him.

I felt bad that he was taking so much accountability there. But you know what? That's how he felt. And, you know, he u. Well, I don't think you should feel bad about it how much he took because that's what I appreciate most is, you know, I think the thing that frustrates me most is a sports. sports fan or somebody that interviews these incredibly talented athletes is how defensive they can be at times. Yeah.

And we got none of that there. We got complete accountability. There's no reason for me to be defensive or you to be defensive when he's not being defensive. All right. Total accountability right there for what happened. The fans should be frustrated and disappointed on Sunday. I'm here to tell you after you listen to that, you weren't as frustrated and disappointed

as he was. Right. You know, and that means something to me, and I hope it means a lot to the fans as well. And I think a part of it also that feeds off of that disappointment, Mike, is a guy that loves the great state of Alabama as much as you do and as much as I do. From all accounts, the atmosphere Sunday in Talladega, Alabama was electric. It was as strong of an audience, or passion, pageantry, and just butts in the seats, as we have seen, Marty Smith said it was the largest crowd he has seen since Dale Jr.'s daddy was driving there.

And obviously Marty goes there every year. And I think the weather was great. There's all this excitement. Dale Jr. won Daytona. You know, he's won five times here. He's having a great year. 90% of the fans there want him to win. You know good and well, Mike.

There's nowhere. I mean, people love him everywhere, but there's nowhere like the support that he has in the great state of Alabama. And I think that's part of why Junior was so frustrated afterwards. It's like, man, I wanted to give these guys what they came to see. There's something magnificent about seeing an Earnhardt lead at the restrictor plate tracks. I'm telling you, there's just a feeling that you never feel anywhere else. Right. When that 88 is out front, just like when that three used to be out front at Talladega and Daytona,

when it's out front, there's something electric about that. And Junior led laps on Sunday. And, you know, and it got to those feelings like, hey, here we go, we're back. You know, this is Junior at Talladega. Here's the one thing about Talladega and Daytona for that, you know, as far as that goes, but certainly Talladega that I've said for a long time. And Taylor, you know I love that track. I love that state.

I love that place. But you often end up leaving there hating it more than you love it. If you don't win that race, you usually hate it. There's no bigger swing of emotions for one race track than at Talladega. because honestly, if you don't win it, there's a good chance you probably got wrecked or was wrapped up in a wreck, and we've been in far too many of them, where you're just like, what's the point of this place? I mean, we would have a good car.

How many times have we had this strong car only be wrecked? Only end up on the back of a tow truck. And it's just such a demoralizing feeling. Maybe that played into yesterday. Maybe that's why Junior gambled and said, you know what, those guys are about to wreck. And you know what he was right? But at that time, he pretty much had to lay in the bed that he made for himself. He was too far back to make a run for it.

Maybe that had something to do with it. I mean, but you know what? You make those decisions and sometimes they don't always pan out for you. And he took ownership. He said he made the wrong decision. He wish he had to do over again. Yeah, I mean, your guess is as good as mine as to why he did that. And even with eight laps remaining as he's trying that outside lane,

the 98 gets in front of him and he just drifts back. loses the draft and and you're one all of us are wondering what's going on there. Personally, I just thought, you know what? He's, he's, he's miscalculated how much time he has left. He thinks he's going to be able to go back. He's not going to be like the outside work now that the 98's in front of him. So he's just going to start over again, try to get a new pack going and get back out there to the front.

And I think that's what, personally, that's what I thought was going through his mind. At the same time, my mind was saying, you don't have enough time to do this. Right. This is a mistake. But also, though, to what you just said, I absolutely expected everyone in the middle to be involved in a wreck there. With the package that we have right now, given what we saw time and time again at Talladega yesterday, I absolutely expected there to be big one after big one after big one, especially if you were at the top of the racetrack. Add this.

Who thought you'd have a green white checker there and there not be another green white checker? Who thought that that was going to end like it did, especially with a, debris caution. Yeah. You know, so you didn't even get to race back to the checker. But honestly, and I'm just giving my opinion here, you know, people can sit there and say I'm defending junior or whatever. But the fact is, is that I said out loud to whoever was in the room that when I was

watching that race, when the Jimmy Johnson wreck happened and it triggered, I don't know how many cars were in that wreck, but I said, junior is a genius. You know what? I wasn't the only one that said it. A lot of the people that are sitting there knocking him right now probably said the same thing. Junior's a genius. He sat there and he waited back. and then that big wreck happened.

And you want to know something? There's no way to know now. But there's a good chance Junior was going to be in that wreck, being that where it started, which I think was about eighth or ninth place, Junior restarted around 14th or 15th. I don't see him going from 14th or 15th in that amount of time up to where he would have been in front of that wreck. Now, I don't know.

I can't prove it. I'm just saying it's a theory. Who knows? We'll never know. But there's a good chance he does get caught in that wreck. and there it was, he was in the back and he avoided it. I thought he was going to be able to restart closer than what he did. As it turns out, I think he was only able to restart 23rd

because a lot of the people that were in that wreck never lost a lap, and nobody pitted. You were too late in the race. So I said, well, that might have been a bit of a miscalculation. I think he also thought that that wreck was going to happen a little sooner because when he actually went back, he said it to TJ. He goes, they're about to wreck, and TJ agreed. I mean, there were four wide, there was a lot of bumping going on.

That wreck, I think he anticipated happening before it actually did. And he certainly didn't anticipate it happening with Jimmy Johnson losing control of a car all by himself. So it was a gamble that he took that may not have played out exactly the way he did it. Now, the second run where he restarts 23rd or whatever, he goes to the outside, he gets bogged down. That's the one that I think people have the most problem with is because when he went back again. I think that's what he has the most problem. And by that time, it's what I said. You're pretty much stuck with what you've had, you've got.

You know you're not going to go win the race now. You pretty much had left with the bed that you've made for yourself. I think that's the position junior was in. It sucked, but that's what we were left with. No, I understand what you're saying, Mike. Ultimately, he screwed up, and he took accountability. As you said, maybe too much accountability, but he took accountability for screwing up. He laid back.

He should have gone up there, tried to, you know, compete for the win or get as many spots as he could have. He had a car that looked like it was capable of winning the race. And, you know, it was a bad, ultimately the wrong decision was made, and it was a bad result, and he feels awful about it. Yeah. And I appreciate the fact that he's taken so much accountability. Let's move on.

Let's get ready for Kansas. Put it in the rear view mirror. This team has been incredible this year. He's been incredible this year. It was a bad day. He took a tremendous amount of responsibility for it. Let's move on. Let's see if he can get a win in Kansas.

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I need to know who's going to win the Stanley Cup, you know, place of Bet, all since you know you were making predictions about the big wreck big wreck big wreck big wreck you know i thought maybe you could help the brother out you know because jimmy johnson calls a wreck or two he's still finish in front of you quit laying back get up there you're you're like t-rex arms there hoagie you know reach out there and grab yourself a victory boy hang in there let's go deal yeah yeah that might have been just where it got real for dale junior he just got compared to hoag yeah his racing his on track worse than anything he just got compared to hoag he's like that never happens i'm picking the brew

by the way. Let's go to the next one. I am so pissed and I am going to have to stay off Twitter for days. If I see one more damn tweet that Dale Jr. gave up or quit on this race, I'm going to have to push somebody through Twitter. It's ridiculous to think that he gave up on anything. Be a fan, Junior Nation. Be a fan. Mike Davis, there's a lot of wonderful things about Twitter. A good friend of mine, David Glenn, who runs the ACCC Sports Journal

and syndicated throughout North Carolina, great talk show host. He said something that stuck with me, said Taylor. 90% of the people listening to you are the majority that will never, ever, go crazy and wild. He said those 10% are on Twitter and message boards and all this place, and they're screaming and yelling and they're great. They're the ones that are most positive and the ones the most negative. But you got to remember that 90% that are not yelling and screaming at you that are always going to be supportive.

So we do always appreciate all the people that listen to us each week that are so loyal but would never call in and scream and yell. Well, I could tell you this. You know, I read a lot of the fan reaction. And again, I will never discourage somebody for having an opinion. But if you don't discourage me from thinking that some of them are incorrect and wrong, I mean, that's right. And I can either express that or I don't.

I mean, there's nothing that Dale Jr. did that suggest he quit. He picked wrong. Yeah. And he chose wrong, and that's okay. That happens. But he never quit. And I can't believe anybody that really, I can't take them seriously, anybody that says that. No, you said it.

He chose wrong. That's it. What do we have next? Anyone questioning Dale Jr.'s effort in that race just needs to stop. If you watch that whole race, you knew it was hard to pass. You knew there was nowhere to go. They were stacked up four deep. It had nothing to do with lack of effort.

It had everything to do with coming down for pit, coming into pits and being bogged down by all that traffic. They should have never pitted. Well, again, yeah. I mean, it's in hindsight, of course. Listen, those guys knew that they should have pitted when it happened. Yeah. They said it on the radio.

Stevie and Jr. both. Junior was like, man, we should have pitted right there. And Steve's like, yep, well, if we could drive through the grass, we'd do it right now. That's exactly what he said. They knew it at the time. And so, but what are you going to do? I mean, he had to make a pit stop the day. Now, there's some people.

say he should have gambled. Here's my thought to that, Taylor, and I don't even know what your thought is to it. But the fact is, gambling at Talladega on running out of fuel is really different than gambling anywhere else because if you gamble and are wrong at Talladega. You're like Carl Edwards. There's a tire going down. You put your arm out the window like he did yesterday. And listen, I appreciate that Carl was trying to be unselfish there.

Carl, don't ever put your arm out the window at Talladega, okay? If you run out of gas at Talladega, the advice I would give to you is hold on and close your eyes, because this is about to be a big ride. Well, many people saw David Reagan's ride on SportsCenter. What does Datto have to say? Well, come back from Talladega. I got a new word, Urban Dictionary. It's called La Tartan.

It's when you have a chance to win the rain. You should win the goddamn race, and at the end you f*** up because a terrible damn pit strategy and you end up in the 20s. Example. Man, if you see junior fly around that track, it was awesome. Yeah, but then we got lecarted. I can't wait to dad-old 2015. Boom!

Come on, Steve. I'm fat and happy right now. If you make me start running again and I get in shape, I will be livid, Steve. Lividd. Steve, he gets those calls right a lot more than he ever gets them wrong. I'll tell you that. And I don't know anybody in this world that gets them all right. No, and again, I just think Dale Jr. took total accountability, total responsibility for the race afterwards.

And I think we have to leave it at that. He's disappointed in the decision that he made. We appreciate, at least I appreciate it. I know you do too, Mike, the accountability he took for the race. I don't think we need to go blame it a bunch of others. Who else we got? Well, that sucked. Not much to say other than first race of the year

I'm disappointed in both crew chief and the driver. Latart, looking back at it, probably shouldn't have pitted there for fuel, and Junior just couldn't make his moves that he could normally make at the end of those races. Doesn't mean we've lost hope or faith in the team, but disappointing for today, and that should be an honest.

That's fine. Absolutely. Yeah, that's just being, and that's fine. I think you should feel that way after that day, and, you know, it's one bad race, you move on to Kansas. What's next? Yeah, this is my first time calling, and unfortunately because I'm devastated and embarrassed

performance. Biggest chicken shit race have ever seen him run. I mean, what's he going to do? If he wrecks, he's going to finish 30-something instead of the 2060 ran? What do you f***ing do? I thought this was supposed to be a year where he's going to run it for everything it's worth because he's won that first race.

I mean, he looked like he took his ball and went home. I know that Davis and the rest of the guys at Dirty Mall are going to try to spin this a positive light, but it's bullshit. They need to call a spade to spade. Next week, you better face with pride. It makes me feel like I'm proud to be his fan again. All right.

Well, can I go first? Yeah. Play that again, Amanda. Let's play this again. Because did he say, if you wreck Whipty Do? Is that what he said? He said, yeah, it doesn't really matter if you wrecked and finish 36. It doesn't matter that you wrecked.

And finish 28. Go back to the in-car of David Reagan, by the way. And he took quite a jolt. Huge. I'm sorry. Again, I respect your opinion, but the fact of the matter is it's not what you do if that guy wrecks, okay? It's not. It's just not you move on to another race. Listen, there's a guy in there that one is probably more susceptible now to these knocks now that he's had two concussions. Who's just say the next one isn't the one that ends his career, okay? And again, I wasn't even planning on to take this defense because I don't know that a lot of people care that, you know, juniors got these concussions. But the fact of the matter is, look, if you want him to race, I understand that I wanted him to race. Don't ever, don't ever sit there and act like that the guy in that seat doesn't matter, and that if he wrecks, he wrecks or whatever.

It's not the way it is. I take offense to that. Anyways, I'm done there. Taylor, you got anything to say to that? I don't think it. I don't think there's much to add, my friend. Let's go to the next one. And I don't know what to say.

I was very disappointed today. Love you, Jr. But that was, I don't know, are you out there to race, or are you just out there to ride around? I know saving the car. His cars cost a lot of money, but Johnson wrecked twice, and he finished ahead of you.

Don't understand it. Hopefully we have a better result next week. Again, a lot of frustration this week on Reaction Theater. We have heard frustration before. We have heard jubilation before, and that's what makes the forum what we appreciate most about the forum. We don't always have to agree or disagree with what is said. But listen, there's no question.

a bad day. And again, the thing I keep saying, the thing I appreciate most about Junior is how disappointed he is that he let the fans down, the people that care about him down. And whether the fans are right or wrong in their perception of what happened, the fact that Junior cares about that means a lot to me. Hey, let's go. Hold on a second. Amanda, are we giving away sunglasses today? No. Would I have been a candidate for this? If we were given away happy land, for the angriest person, somebody that needs to be happy again. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Man, I wish we were giving some away.

I could have got me some there. But you can go and get your 20% off. Dale yeah. Dale yeah. Next. Well, Junior Nation, all I got to say is, all you have to do is watch the replay of David Reagan inside the car. They realize we don't want our driver's brain scrambled like that.

So, you know, to drive up there to try to finish 15th from 26, just didn't make a whole lot of sense to my eyes. Go get them at Kansas next week. Dale, yeah. I have to say, I think the world of David Reagan, I think he's a great guy. He listens to this podcast quite a bit. He's somebody that has gone through some tough adversity as a driver.

He won that race last year, and I was, man, I was over the moon for him, just given what he's gone through, losing his ride at Raus, and now with the small team. But watching that on SportsCenter on Sunday night, his in-car camera, it was, whew, I tell you what, it's tough to be out there and handle that. I mean, he was getting hit from all directions out there. To your point, Mike, it's a lot to ask just to ask people to go out there and wreck.

That's not something anybody wants to be part of. Hey, here's all you need to know. Did you notice how many cup drivers are in the nationwide series race? Not many. Two. Yeah. And one of them was David Reagan. Yeah.

The other was Casey Kane who was driving for us. Now, David Reagan was in contention from when Casey was as well, but Casey got wrapped in the race. Now, why do you think those cup drivers aren't running the nationwide series? series race. It's all you got to know. Congratulations to Elliot Sadla, by the way, on the win. Good for him. Good for him and that team. You know what? I would have loved for Regan to win that race, obviously, but, you know, I'm happy for Elliott as well. Absolutely.

We got any more, Amanda? That's it. All right. There you go. Dale, yeah, that'll do it. Reaction theater is open 24-7. All you have to do is call toll-free 1-855-7-40-1902 and leave us your voicemail message and we'll play the best. each week right here on Dirty Mo Radio. Ahead this week on Dirty Moe Radio. On Wednesday, it's Fast Lane Family with Kelly Earnhardt Miller. This will be good.

Kelly is joined by Keelan's mom, Delana Harvick. Now that will be fun to listen to Kelly and Delana. Friday, check out J.R.M. 360, the podcast. Hopefully no one is in danger of being pranked this week. Mike Davis, let me just tell you this. I don't have the capability of pulling off the stuff that you do. You're one of the more creative people I've ever met. I'm here to tell you,

You're in real danger, pal. That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. But I'm just telling you as your friend, like every person that works there on a full-time basis is out to get you right now. Every single one of them. And you're going on vacation this week. You may come back and like your office may be in a different building or something.

I'd just be careful if I were you. Because of how creative and how hilarious you are, you might have something coming back at you. I have nothing to do with it. I'm just saying to watch out. I don't sweat them. But you know what? It's really Amanda's fault.

She had that idea? Yeah, it's all Amanda. You're the provincial of 360. I don't believe that at all. I don't believe that for one second. Amanda edits, she shoots it. She's behind all that stuff. You know, she's the common denominator and all that.

What's funny is that on Twitter when he's talking about this stuff, I'm his partner in crime and, you know, everything is sunshine and roses. But then he turns on me when we get on a podcast. Yeah, this week on J.R.M. 360, you'll see Tyler Overstreet standing in front of Davis's house with it burning to the ground going, ha ha ha, here's your prank. You want to know something funny? I was talking to my dad on the phone last night, and he says, I said, you know,

they were on vacation this past weekend, and I said, did you ever get a chance to watch 360? You know, it got a lot of views. It was the most to watch 360 we've ever had, by the way. I don't know if you know that. I believe it. But I said, what did you think? He goes, you know, I didn't like it.

And I said, what? And he goes, no, I don't like it when you prank people. He goes, I always, I felt bad for that guy. And I said, Dad, don't feel bad for Tyler. and he goes, no, I don't like it when you prank people. And, you know, I just want you to know that. Well, thank you. Well, it's funny because I think a lot of people share the way your dad feels,

but to your point, it was the most viewed 360 you've ever had. So obviously it was a good idea. It was very funny. Tyler had it common anyways. On Mondays, we recap the full weekend as well for junior motorsports nationwide and late-mile teams and Dale Sprint Cup series run, of course, coming up from Kansas. All right.

Let's get out of here. Let's throw the white flag. White flag right there, white flag. All right, I'm going to attempt to read the white flag here, Taylor, but I've got to tell you, Hogue wrote it, and he also put it in a font that I'm not very appreciative of. So let's see if we can do this. Hogue says, Hogue says,

Hogue is not here to read the white flag today, so I'll give this my best shot. Dale Jr. has a light week heading into the race at Kansas. Tomorrow he's got some film work to do for Earnhardt Outdoors with his sister Kelly and his brother Kerry at Dirtymo Aakers. On Thursday, when arriving to Kansas, Dale Jr. is visiting Seaman High School. Is that really what it's called?

Seaman High School. How's it spelled? I don't even want to tell you. Home of the Vikings for appearance with the National Guard. There is no nationwide race this weekend. They are on a break until next week in Iowa. By the way, Taylor, speaking of Iowa, Austin Terrio in the Spy Dirty Moe Radio Car. This is not in the script.

I just wanted to get excited about that. Dale Jr. will be sporting the No. 88 National Guard on Saturday night in Kansas for the Sprint Cup race. That's right. Saturday night racing in the land of us folks. No, he didn't write that. Green flag is set to drop at 7.30 p.m. Eastern with coverage on Fox. There is nothing else to ramble on about. Hope you enjoyed today's podcast.

And as always, Phil and witty tagline here. Hogue, the laziest riding I've ever seen. Do you want to know something he missed, though? And Hogue is a terrible public relations man right now. He did not point out the whole nationwide sponsorship that we... Yeah, well, I was about to say... Well, no, I was going to finish that off by saying this. My daughter, Katie, always pokes fun at Junior,

for saying, nationwide is on your side. But the other day when she learned of this new sponsorship, she said, my goodness, nationwide is really on your side. And that is the case. Congratulations to everybody involved with that. And proud to have nationwide aboard. Yeah, great partners. And we were so excited they're stepping up on the Cup program.

And, man, we've got a lot more years, the great commercials coming your way, folks. That's right. All right. Happy days. We'll be here again. I have no doubt as we get ready for Kansas. Have a great vacation.

Mike Davis. You certainly need it. Thanks to Amanda Troutman, to Dale Jr. For Mike Hogue, everybody else, I'm Taylor Zarser. You've been listening to the Dale Jr. download. Thanks for listening to Dirty Moe Radio. The Dale Jr. download is presented by Spy

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