The Dale Jr. Download - 573 - NASCAR's Everest Delivers Game 7 Moment

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so that means Dale Earnhardt Jr. is joined by his wife Amy in the Dirty Mo Media studio for Dirty Air. After an exciting conclusion to the NASCAR regular season at Darlington, there was plenty to chat about:Darlington is a pinnacle of stock car racingChase Briscoe’s Game Seven momentRace winner Chase Briscoe joins the showKyle Busch’s late race chargeHow did Dale’s February Playoff predictions hold up?Dale and Amy have a CARS Tour adventure in Florence, South Carolina21+ and present in North Carolina. Opt in req. Wager requirements apply. Bonuses awarded as nonwithdrawable bonus bets or profit boost tokens. Restrictions apply including bonus expiration. See terms and conditions at fanduel.com/sportsbook. Gambling problem? Call 877-718-5543 or visit morethanagame.nc.gov. 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.

Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr. back again. Another episode of the Dale Jr. download. It's Tuesday. It's Dirty Air. And it's the first of the month. Amy's going to be with us. And we've got a lot to talk about. Chase Sprisco is going to call in after winning Darlington. And we're going to cover our cars tour race and our experience in Florence.

So let's get going. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. You're a Dale. You're a complete moron if you under your belt in a... moving race cars. Moron. He tends to hide the weird stuff and I'll find it. Bringing Amy on was a bad idea.

This is great. The Dale Jr. Download starts now. Hey, everybody. St. Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download. It's Tuesday and it's time for Dirty Air presented to you by Ptyar Pros and joining me the first of the month. What's the date?

It's the third. All right. So it's the first podcast of, the new month and Amy is here. How's it going? Hey. Yeah. So we talked about, you know, fans wanting you to be on the show.

And we've decided first of the month, right? Yes. All right. First Tuesday of the month. First Tuesday, yeah. First show of the month. You excited about this? You look forward to it?

I'm a little nervous after last episode. Why? I'm a little concerned. I won't bring the heat today, but I'm ready my best. Well, we're going to get right into the Darlington race that Chase Briscoe won. but later after that Chase is going to call in here pretty early as predicted he should be calling in soon

but after that we'll cover you going with me to Florence to race in the Cars Tour race which was just miles from Darlington this past Friday night and we had a blast and yeah so I'm looking forward to getting into that on the table

I wanted to you know Mike probably going to want you to cut this out of the show because he... But we're not. All right? This is for the foundation. Maybe he won't cut it since this is a charitable initiative. That's right. I brought this from our beach house in South Carolina. This is

an Xbox one. One of one, wrapped in Junior Motorsports colors and I'm going to wipe it clean. Should I be in a white it? Show it off a little. Sure. I've been... Yeah. It's heavy. It is a brick.

I've got the controller, which is also wrapped, and the power cord. I'm going to wipe it clean, put it up on the foundation eBay. It's mine. I've been using it at the beach house. Very clean. Looks like you've had it well wrapped. It's a good chat.

It's a good chat. I'm trying to get a number on eBay for that. The last game I played on this was probably Madden a couple years ago. And yeah. So anyhow, Let's get right into it. Let's talk about Darlington. This was the last race of the regular season.

We joked about how, you know, it was weird that it was the last race because we're so used to Talladega being the last race. But this really, I'm sorry, Daytona. And this lived up to it, though. We also said something that I thought was absolutely factual. I don't know if I could have said it better, if I might say so myself. it's the Everest of NASCAR, right? It is the hardest race to win.

The argument over which I don't like the word or the phrase crown jewels, the argument over which ones belong in there, there's no debate on Darlington being a part of that group. And the reason why, now Darlington, the track itself, yes, historic, yes old, may not hold a candle to an Indianapolis in terms of notoriety globally. But if you asked all of the, if you polled all of the NASCAR drivers,

you get to win one. You want to win Darlington, the Southern 500, or do you want to win an indie in the Brickyard 400? I think the majority are going to tell you Darlington. And the reason is, is because they know that if you win there, it's like bona fide,

factual evidence that you are a race car driver, a talented driver, not just holding the steering wheel. If you go to Indy and win, if the car factors in a ton, yes, you've got to be a good driver, but there's no hiding at Darlington and there's no lucking into a win there. There's no sort of average driver that gets an incredible car and wins there. even in that scenario, you're going to get beat. It's just, it's a very slick, narrow, unpredictable track, the both ends being so completely different from each other.

Nothing about them are similar. Turns 1 and 2 at Darlington is one of the most nail-biting, intimidating corners at any oval racetrack in North America. and, you know, just trying to get through there by yourself, let alone on the racetrack with 40 other cars is so tough. And you do that all night long, and you've got to run inches from the wall, trying not to damage your car. It's hard to do.

And so only the good ones, only the really, really good ones will get wins at that racetrack. And Chase Briscoe comes into the, the final race of the year, not in the playoffs, going to have to win. He was one of many drivers trying to go in and try to have a walk off home run or whatever you want to call it, a game seven moment. And so he had a really fast car, ran second, you know, ran really good all night long, couldn't really, never really got an opportunity to sort of go toe to toe with Larson throughout most of the night.

But it seemed like as the race got later and the track changed somewhat, Something changed, but Larson's competitiveness sort of faded, and Briscoe took advantage of it. Great move down the back straight away on a late restart. Yeah, fourth to first. Yes. What a move. And so taking advantage, some drivers on, you know, taking advantage of Chastain who had stayed out. I like that move.

Look, Chastain didn't have a chance in hell, staying out on old tires. But I, what else are you going to do? He's also got to win the race. I saw a few other drivers that were also in must-win scenarios, not taking those chances. I'm thinking, what are you doing? There was a couple of drivers that needed to win the race that didn't come down at pit road to get tires on that one caution.

And so I'm like, man, you're not even trying to put yourself in an offensive position. And so, you know, even though Ross probably didn't have much of a chance on the older tires, I thought it was really cool that he tried and his team said, you know, hell with it, we're going to stay out. But Briscoe gets the positioning into turn three and ends up taking the lead. And one of the drivers that was smart and put tires on his car and gave himself an offensive chance was Kyle Busch. Right. And man, it was fun to sit inside that car and ride with Kyle as he tried to track down Chase Briscoe in those final laps. I talk about the broadcast a lot

and how important it is to show the fans how incredible the racing is and if the broadcast doesn't you could have an amazing race but if the broadcast doesn't take you there and doesn't show you why it's amazing you'll never know it. Well, they did a really, really smart thing

by sitting inside the race car more than usual in those moments. It put us in the passenger seat with Kyle Bush is he's doing everything possible trying to find just a little bit more speed to chase down a guy who's driving with his hair on fire in Chase Briscoe. I mean, Chase Briscoe is sitting there going, you know, here's my moment. I've got to do this not only to try to make the playoffs, but SHR shutting down 350 employees all trying to figure out where they're going to go to work next year.

This is his chance to sort of give them something to be excited about. And so he's also looking the mirror and seeing one of the best drivers in the series chasing him down. And he has three lap better tires. Well, I want to say, if you want to ask him about the moment, Chase Spurscoe is here. Let's bring you in. All right, Chase Briscoe, man, it's Dale Jr. And Amy here, my wife, she's here with us as well. Thanks for calling in today, man.

What's you doing? Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm just at the shop. I just did our 14 team meeting, about to do our company-wide meeting, and then we're going to do the toast later this afternoon. And then I got Sim at 5 to 7. So, yeah, always Tuesdays for me are like 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. kind of day. So it's a long one, but this is a better one than normal. You look like you still ain't head sleep.

That wasn't nice. Yeah. So Sunday night, all the guys came over, and I don't think they left until like 5.30. And then my son woke up at eight. And then last night, we went to bed at like, I don't know, like 10 something. And then, yeah, I'd have to wake up to leave the house like 645. So, yeah, I'm struggling. All right, man.

Well, hey, I, you know, I've always really appreciated you as a driver and always liked the emotion you show about, you know, what you're out there doing. You certainly showed a lot of emotion. the other night at Darlington, you know, I was just telling everybody how hard it is to win there and how badly drivers want to check that box. And so explain that to us. Why do drivers want to win at Darlington more than most other racetracks? Yeah, first off, I appreciate that. But, you know, I feel like just Darlington, you know, especially inside the industry and especially among the drivers, like there's just a respect that comes with if you're able to win at that place because they can't,

they can't discount the talent and the ability you have if you can win at Darlington. Like there's no, you know, there's no way to cheat your way into winning at Darlington. Like you just, you have to be good to get around there and it's just a challenging race track. It's probably the hardest track that we go to from just a mental standpoint, even a physical standpoint. you know you have to run 500 miles a quarter of an inch off the fence and it's just a really challenging track that you know every driver um you know when you leave there i mean you can run 10th there at the southern 500 and if you run 10th it's like man like i did i did a pretty good job tonight and whenever you can win at darlington it's just so gratifying um just because as a race car driver you feel like you did your job right and uh yeah it's just i feel like it's just a super gratifying win just because of the respect honestly that comes with it and whenever you can win there just um you know the guys in the garage all kind of just look at you a different way i feel like so that uh that's definitely going to help my confidence going forward for sure yeah i would say so man i was i was you know happy to see uh the opportunity that

you're going to get going forward next year with with joe gibbs racing uh but curious as to how you might perform when you change teams change organizations and but when you win this race it's like an automatic gain in stock. Like everybody, whatever everybody's expectations were for you going forward in your career and specifically next year, I think everybody's expectations just kind of popped up a notch because of winning at this specific racetrack under those conditions, especially how you made it happen. Throughout the night, you know, you were kind of hovering right there around second place,

never really an opportunity to go head to head against Larson until late in the race. It looked like his balance on his car was sort of going away throughout the event, started seeing him struggle, having some challenging moments. And particularly at the end, the pace just wasn't there. And it's like, you know, as the race evolved, your car just continued to improve. You know, how hard were you pushing, I guess, through the first two-thirds of that race or were you just trying to get to the end and have an opportunity? What was the mindset? Yeah, it was, you know, from the get-go, I told our guys on the radio, like lap 35. I said, if you guys just do everything right tonight on pit road, we're going to be in the mix here.

I knew my car was pretty good from the beginning. And yeah, like you said, I mean, I watched Kyle Larson lead like 275 laps. All I saw was hindered cars.com forever, I felt like, and was able to just watch him, like literally. I remember telling myself with like 120 to go, if I don't at least lead a lap in this race, like I'm going to be so frustrated just because I felt like I was 10 to 40 car lengths behind. the entire night. So I had a good idea of what his car was able to do and what my car was able to do. And I was better than him for sure the first 10 laps of a run.

He was quite a bit better than me from lap 10 to probably 25 and then we would kind of even out. So that was the big thing for me is just trying to stay close enough that we could potentially short pit him because I was almost like a half a second faster the first 10 laps of a run. So I knew if I could just stay close enough to, you know, short pit him, I could come out with the lead. And I felt like we were evenly matched enough that whoever had the lead was going to be hard to beat. I just wasn't sure how I was ever going to get the lead.

And, you know, we had that one restart where I all but cleared him and wasn't quite able to do it. And then, you know, the one with Ross, where we went three wide, I knew that was probably going to be the only opportunity I was going to get on a restart potentially and just had to do whatever I had to do to try to get the win. And obviously that restart kind of just everything went right for me and was able to get the lead. And from there, I thought I was going to be pretty easily able to win. And then obviously the A car came coming on tires. So the last couple laps, man, I saw you getting into the fence a little bit in turn three and four.

Was that concerning at all? I mean, you're running on the ragged edge. Are you having to kind of, are you having a battle in your own mind in that moment? I was thinking about this while you were driving there, those last few laps. I was thinking about how tough that battle must be in your head about how hard to push, but you certainly, you're that, you're almost in big trouble a couple times you're running that close to the wall and making contact. Did you have to kind of back yourself down the next time you went into turn three

in terms of like, hey, man, all right, let's not overdo it. We almost overdid it. What are you thinking and what's going on in your mind there? Yeah, it was wild. I think we got to restart with like 18 laps to go. And like I said, my car was super good for like the first 10 laps. Like we had a couple tens on the whole field. So when I got the lead, like the initial start, I went through one and two and I knew I had the lead.

And my whole mindset was I'm just going to run hard enough to stay in the lead and save my tires. Because all night I had never really saved any tire. I'd always went as hard as I could just trying to stay close on the short run. So with the lead, I was like, I'm just going to save my tire. and just leave a little bit on the table. Well then as soon as Kyle Bush got to second, my mindset kind of changed right away. I need to run as hard as I can,

and just try to build as much of a gap, just because I knew my tires were at a little bit of a deficit. I'd be lying if I said with 15 to go, I didn't think I was potentially beat, just seeing how quick he was running me down and knowing that he had a tire advantage. And it kind of got me looking in three and four doing different things.

I was kind of sliding myself. myself and he had been running the bottom on the short run at least when he was catching me and I tried to go into the bottom at one point and lost a ton of time and You know I watched like I said Larson kind of the whole race and what made it impossible for me to pass him was is how he would just run the wall in three and four So as soon as Kyle got within probably eight or so car links I said I'm just gonna commit to the fence and I knew my car was really good and wanted to So I knew as long as I didn't mess one and two up, and I just ran the fence in three and four. It was going to be hard for him to pass me. And that's kind of what I sold out to. And, you know, I was extremely loose.

I was sideways. And from lap, you know, probably 15 to go to eight to go felt like they were two-minute lap times. Just it felt like it took forever. And I was watching him run me down. And then the final eight laps went by super fast. And honestly, it was a lot like Deja Havu with, you know, the Xfinity racing. me and Kyle had there in 2020. I was super loose then.

He was running me down. And honestly, that experience made it where I was not nervous at all Sunday night. Because I had been in that position, that literally that exact position before where I felt like the world was on my shoulders. Kyle Bush is right behind me at Darlington. He's got a little bit better car. And I just had to run the fence and do it as best as I could. And like you said, I got in the wall a couple times, especially coming to the white flag,

which I also did that Exfinity race. When I hit it, I just held it wide open. Essentially, it was like I'm going to do like Ross does and sit a lift and try to get out of it. I'll just stay wide open and hope it bounces me off of it. And it ended up doing that and was able to obviously hold off for the wind. Dang. Man. What a scenario?

Leading at Darlington with a few laps to go, one of the best chasing you down, the world on your shoulders. And you didn't crumble. The mental fortitude and mental toughness, I mean, you, like you say, you've no, Nobody will ever be able to take that away from you or deny the fact that you're one tough individual mentally. I know that you've had a moment, I guess, to kind of get to the shop and be around the guys a little bit today. You've got a team that's now in the playoffs. They've got a little bit of extra motivation to finish this year out, some things to be smiling about. How has this win?

I know it's a short time here, but how has this win? sort of shaking the foundation of the team in a good way. Yeah, it's been huge. Obviously, it's no secret, everything that we have going on here at SHR. We're, truth is at a huge disadvantage every week. You know, the Hendricks, the JGRs, every other team of the sport, all they worry about and focus on is how can we take the fastest car to the racetrack. And, you know, unfortunately, for our employees, you know,

they're trying to do that. But on top, they're trying to figure out how they're going to have enough money to pay their house payment, where they're going to work next year, what they're going to do for a living. And there's a ton of distractions, right? And just how we've ran performance-wise has made it even worse on top of that. And it's, I'm not going to lie, it's been kind of dark and gloom here for a little while, just with everything that we got going on and, you know, you come into the shop today and,

like, everybody's fired up. And it's exciting, truthfully, just because we have absolutely nothing to lose. and, you know, we're in a, you know, like I was saying earlier, we're in a totally different spot than every other race team is, but that's also, I think, what's so exciting for me going into these playoffs now is, you know, the momentum that we have and just the chip on our shoulder as a company, and just the excitement behind us is unlike anything I've ever seen at SHR, and that's pretty exciting to be the guy that, you know,

gets to carry that flag, especially in the playoffs. So, yeah, it's, you know, that win couldn't have came at a better point. You know, if we would have won next week, you know, would have been great, but we wouldn't have been racing for a championship. And I think that the whole dynamic of our company would have been extremely different today if we did not win on Sunday night. You know, people probably start leaving. You know, I've even said that the last month and a half or two that if we don't make the playoffs, there's really no reason for anybody to stay the rest of the year. And I always thought that it was going to be hard for us to even get cars at the racetrack. And now with us

being in the playoffs and racing for something, you know, it gives all 320 plus people a reason to stay and, you know, to do everything they can to keep fighting. So, yeah, it's going to be a wild final 10 weeks. And, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, we have another, you know, Tony Stewart type, you know, 2011 championship run just because I feel like, you know, as a company, we're that motivated right now and everybody's fired up and it's going to be a lot of fun. Man, that's great. I think it's a great story. I think fans are going to latch on to it. and you got a lot of people probably that weren't expecting to that are going to be pulling for your team going through a bit of a Cinderella story

going out in a blaze of glory, whatever you want to call it. We're going to be having fun watching you, man. I know you're going to give it everything you have. Thanks for giving us some time today. I know you're a busy guy, and hopefully you can get some rest and get fired up for this weekend. Yeah, I appreciate it. Hey, I heard you're maybe joining the Mad League too. and I joined the Madden League.

What? What? Sorry. Sorry. What? Did you tell him to say that? No. Hey, Chase, I'll send you that 20 bucks.

I'm very red. I'm sorry. I was talking about my other buddy delgy. Oh, yeah, yeah. Are you joining the college league? The college? I'll join the Mad. TJ's been asking me about the college league, and I feel like if we're just going to start

in the badden league soon there's no point to start the college league i understand yeah it's one or the other it's one of the other he's gonna be tough i got twins coming like right when the season's so i don't know but i'm gonna try to figure out heavy breathing over here he's got twins coming i know what are you doing plan mad i mean it's only like an hour that's what i tell her it's like an hour i appreciate that all right man hey have a good week and i hope to see soon man Yeah, see you guys. Thank you. Hey, everybody, I want to talk to you a little bit about safety culture.

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Where do we go from there? So, TJ, so I'll... Don't ever blame TJ. Listen, TJ's got a lot of ideas, but you have to say yes. I want people at home to understand what's going on. So, TJ is, we all have Xboxes. There's the NCAA football came out. Madden's come out.

All the, you know, football season starting. around the country in real life. And so the new versions of the games have come out. I haven't played Madden in a decade. College hadn't been out. They didn't even make a game for 10 years. So we all got super excited this year. And TJ's the commissioner in this league, right?

And he just invites everybody and anybody. A bunch of old friends and then some new people. And he's been asking Briscoe to join our college football league. and do you guys bet like the somebody actually win money so what's it like it's just for fun like even in fantasy football we bet yeah well I mean if I all right

I'll bet if it makes it better yeah you're the only one putting money in I'll bet if Amy likes it out if it makes her fine I'll pay it less I'll bet I've tried to tell him this bear with me I know this is probably not my audience how would you feel if I came if you came in from doing anything

and I'm sitting in the floor playing Barbies. Like, what would you think? She thinks Barbies is the same as playing... I mean, it's a game that most young kids play. Yeah. But now here we are because there's a new one coming out, and I got an extra hour. But you have a chance to win a national championship.

I can win anything I want for Ted play. You have a chance to take UNC Charlotte. Yeah, right. Yeah. Dale's doing something that's never been done. Unprecedented. Groundbreaking. So,

thanks for the invite to the league, by the way. Do you have an Xbox? Yeah. Do you have the game? Yeah, I do. Then TJ should be inviting you.

All right. TJ basically will take anybody. Okay. There's a bunch of strangers in there. Does that make you feel better at yourself? No. Take everybody. Yeah, I'm a charity case.

Well, no, what I mean by that is if you just asked you'll get the invite, he's not particular. All right. You're not making him feel better. A bunch of strangers in this stuff. I don't even know some of these people. people. It's like, it's Greg, Boise State. Who are you, Greg? I don't know.

I don't know. Greg's going to be pissed. Yeah, Greg called out of the show. So, but he was like, I might ask Briscoe. Brisco has got, you know, Briscoe plays. He's got plenty of time. Yeah. Playoffs, twins. I was like, man, that would be neat. He's good. You know, a little way to, you know, kind of vibe and communicate with Briscoe outside of the, you know, having to be at a racetrack. Going back to Darlingkin, going back to Briscoe. he you know he he he won that race and this guy has been through so many things you know personally and professionally and I think we you know it's frustrating because I don't think I remember life being this way 20 years ago but now these days we forget so quickly our memory

our short-term memory, the new cycle is much faster. This guy was racing in the Xfinity series, and at one point there was like, there was no like next step, no, you know, he wasn't, there was no like, well, here's the obvious next opportunity. We all know that, you know, Tony Stewart would then surprise him as he, you know, as he stepped. That's right. Tony Stewart would surprise him in his own home at the dinner table at Stewart's house and literally changed this guy's life where he thought he didn't know where the next opportunity was coming from

or if there would be one. Him and his wife went through their own personal challenges trying to grow their family. While he wins that race at Darlington in the Xfinity Series with Kyle Bush, they were going through some challenges. Remember him getting out of the car and how emotional. he was yeah and so think about like all of the things you know think about how his career has been and how his own personal life has been how how how how hard that must have been for him to try to stay on course emotionally mentally not only stay on course to be able to be here and and win this

moment but he actually seems like he's grown stronger and become tougher because come more durable and um but either way man i don't know how you can't talk to the guy and he's humble easy approachable kind nice um and knowing everything from his past how can you not want him to succeed right not that anybody doesn't i'm just saying how could how could we all not hitch our wagon to this chase briscoe momentum coming out of this darlington weekend and hope for the best um there's a lot of communication around the playoffs. You know, this happens with anything

in NASCAR. It seems every week, there's a new problem. And I guess some of the grumblings this week was, well, the playoff system is broken because some people are in there that don't deserve to be in there. We're talking about that after Daytona. Right. Which is garbage.

Two kind of surprise winners two weeks in a row. It's a garbage. It's what it's supposed to be. It's set up to produce the surprise winner. It's set up to give us these Cinderella stories and these Game 7 moments. It's not working, it's working as designed, right? And so, you know, I just, I feel like that, you know, it's, I like that Chase Briscoe's going into this going, you know, we've got a chance to do, like for him to say, hey, we could do what Tony Stewart did that year where Tony just showed up. he was like not a factor in the in the in the in the season 12th 11th whatever not winning races he

was even telling everybody they didn't belong in the playoffs they didn't deserve to take a spot and then they went and won the championship won five races or something um in the playoffs so for him i know he recognizes that moment because it's so close to his car you know his car owner and i mean it's like it's got to be top of mind but for him to say why can't we do that we can do that. Like he really thinks he can, which is pretty cool. I mean,

you look at the schedule too, two wildcard races in two different rounds. Atlanta, you win Atlanta, you go in Talladega, all of a sudden, you're in the round of eight.

You don't just fall into a win at Darlington. Like, you got to earn that. Like, he, I talked to him in victory Atlanta after race.

He's like, I'm about to pass out. Like, that's the hardest. I ran 367 laps like I gave it my all. Yeah. And, I mean,

I have to say, like, this is what I love about sports. Like this is, it's the story, right? And like for Chase to go out there and just run as hard as he can and succeed and reach the top of that mountain after everything he's been through, it's what makes you want to follow along. It's what makes watching this whole thing that we call this sport worth it. That's a great point. You know, we're focusing on Chase and how cool this is for him and his own story.

But it gave us a sports moment. It gave us, you know, it's absolutely something NASCAR hangs their hat. add on and says, hey, look at what we've done this year and look at why, this is why our sports what it is, why it's successful. So good ad there, pal. You know, I don't really have a ton more that I care to cover on this race. I kind of want to reach over this table here and see what you guys thought went on in the race that's worth pointing out.

It was an incredible race, good race, fun race, a lot going on. There were a lot of big moments, but with Chase kind of, Chase saturated my whole memory of this event with what he did at the end. It almost made the rest of it pointless in a way. You know, but there were some big crashes and some big moments. Let's cover them. I mean, to me, the biggest other thing was the guy who finished second, Kyle Bush. Like those closing laps, he looked like a man on a mission like, oh, my God, this is going to be Kyle Wish's time to finally. win the race that we've been waiting for him to win. I feel like everyone was a Kyle Bush fan.

Nothing against Chase, but I feel like everyone was like, come on, Kyle, you can get him. And it just Chase held off. Which, by the way, I want to talk about this real quick too. I tweeted a video of him, like right out of the car. Like he was watching Briscoe's burnout. And I tweeted like, defeat for Kyle Busch, he won't make the playoffs. He responded. He responded. It's like, is this a hate post? There was no hate intended. Then Kyle Bush fans were coming at me. Kyle Busch fans were coming at me. They're like, why? Why did you tweet? You delete the tweet.

Delete the tweet. He's offended. Yeah. And Andrew did tweet that from Dirty Moe's account, not me. So I'm just glad that you're getting the heat for that. It's a significant moment. And I mean, yeah. Very sensitive moment. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. A sensitive, already sensitive guy, very defensive guy. He's defensive, right? Yeah. He's always, I guess he's spent most of his career sort of feeling like.

He had to stand up for himself. Yeah. He always had to damn. Yeah. Like the black sheep almost. You just kind of scratch an old wound there. Sorry, Kyle. I didn't mean too. I know you didn't intend anything. You were looking.

That is, unfortunately, it's Kyle who's in that position, but you were, you were pointing out there's two sides of this. There's this great story over here. And then there's this other guy. A lot of people, to your point, Dalton, were pulling for that didn't, you know, it didn't just didn't happen. Think about, oh, I was. watching this movie the other day with Billy Bob Thornton, the football movie where the high school, they go to the high school championship.

Oh, God. Dalton's got, what, what it? Friday Night Lights. Yes. And if you've never seen that movie before and you're watching it, you're thinking, oh, you know, predictable, they're going to win. Right. They don't.

They lose. They almost get to the finish line and don't, they don't win, right? And so, you know, not, you know, it's kind of like, like a, it's kind of a similar moment, right? Where he's like struggling through his whole year. Man, they've kind of got some momentum.

Oh my God, they might pull this off. He'll last three or four weeks. It's just been, they're getting closer. And here he is on the threshold and it just fell just a little short. And as unfortunate for Kyle, that too is what is great about sports. You know, if we didn't have those

almost or heartbreaking moments, I mean, you've got to have all ranges of the emotion for this to be great, right? Here's your stat. It's in the last four points races, he has scored the most out of the entire field. So, I mean, he's been on a tear. I think the eight car wins this year.

I did not think that, I did not think that after, so when they said at RCR, when RCR was like hinting that, man, we got something coming, we got it, we're going to fix this. I thought they were actually talking about the offseason, but apparently over the Olympic break,

they dug up a pot of gold. I don't know what they dug up out of the ground, but I, well, I don't know how it happens with this car. I know how it happens with the old car because the team's made most of the parts, right? So you could make some new... Like updates, that was the word you used. Some new trick part, right?

Right. But with this car, I don't know. Everybody has the same So I don't know how they're finding any speed, right? But they did. And after Richmond, I was like, ah, that's a one-off. You know, the three has some pop-off runs at Richmond every once in a while.

But no, I mean, they really are running good enough to win these races. They didn't luck into running second. He was a top 10 car all night long and kind of moving forward throughout the night, deeper into that top 10. And they put themselves in position unlike so many other. people that needed to win. They put themselves in position late with an advantage, a tire advantage. Oh, my God.

Brilliant. I'm so frustrated with some of those guys. They're out there like, got to win the race, and they're staying out. Just mailing it in. Everybody from 10th on backs pitting for tires. How are you going to win? I don't know. I think specifically the car that comes to mind doing that was the 23.

Like, you know, like, I thought for sure. call anybody out. I don't want to, but it's just, like, we were, we were really, I was really hoping to see Bubba competing for the win there. And, and they mentioned on the broadcast, like, even Michael Jordan was the guy who was like, put the ball in my hand. And then Bubba didn't have the tires and didn't have the ball in his hand. And I get that it's all strategy. It's a judgment call, but I just hated not seeing him up there. That's kind of, yeah, that's a great analogy. It's like, you know, putting the ball in the guy's hand, giving him the tire advantage. It's like, you know, you've got, You're on the 10-yard line.

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Gambling problem. Call 877717-1-8-5-4-3 or visit more than a game.n.c.gov. The other thing I wanted to mention about the race was the complete difference in the run that the 14 had and the run that the 19 had because he's going into the 19 next year and Truex, you know, leaves on the second. The last thing you need to do is wreck on like lap one and he basically lap three. I mean, that was just an honest mistake, right? Like, he was just trying to close on the 24 and car got away from him and went up into the wall.

It's also possible that the, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I was just going to say he, like, kind of didn't want to be there. Kind of, you know, the crescent moon. You tune into this show for that type of analysis. That was a true X. There's a pond about 10 miles away.

This moon is perfect. I got to make it. look like I'm trying my best here and then go. This is a great night for going. Anyways. Yeah. Sure. You know, Martin, you know, I wonder how, I wonder why, you know, he said he made a mistake.

And I wonder how, you know, I know how he makes that mistake. I made plenty of mistakes. But, you know, last year of his, you know, career full time. And it's got a spot in a playoffs. He's got a spot that he kind of needed. to protect. So when he crashed out, there was like a little conversation of, oh, well, you know, there was a moment where they were like, he might not make it. But he easily made it. So is he, you know, is that a, is that like a little glimpse into maybe True X is already already on holiday?

I hope not. I hope that it was just an honest, true honest mistake like he was going for it. But, I mean, you'd like to think when they throw it. with a helmet on, they're not thinking about that. I mean, you could tell me better than me thinking that. I don't think he's sitting there. I don't think he's in the car going, man, I'm on my boat. I know that. I think, I don't think like, it's

a subconscious way back in there. I think he's, I wonder if he's like already like, this season's like, I'm not, like, I'm struggling. Like, I don't think he would tell us we're crazy if we're, if he were sitting here right now. But there's, you kind of, you're, he's ground down.

I mean, he is, if he would, he would not admit this, man, but he is so ready for this next chapter. Right? Like drained almost. Is it more like burnout than it is like other, all right, you know, motivation? He's a little tired, he's a little ground down,

not from this season, just from the 20 years of doing this, right? And there's this next thing that's so awesome he can't wait for it to get here. And it's not, it is probably one of the hardest things that he'll ever do. to stay totally plugged in to finish this year with incredible dedication and focus, right? Because he's already. Like senioritis almost. Yeah, it's like seniority.

The thing that's going to happen for him because I've seen it is he's going to look back and wish he had just played a little harder because those moments don't come back. Yeah. Right? Yeah. No, that's good. Man, I'd go back and do it just one more time. I've heard that.

Yeah. really go back and do a lot of it. Yeah. You know, in terms of, like, I mean, yeah, whole seasons. Really? Yeah. Like, I would love to have O4 back.

Yeah. Really, yeah. Oh, four was the year where I was, I had the best team in terms of, there was O4 and I think 2014, where the two best, 13 was good, too. I had a couple years with a tart

where I think we, we had enough team and car performance, absolutely, to win a championship. It was a year before he retired. Was 14 the one where... We were three races there. But like Talladega, like you got screwed and got eliminated? Yeah, something happened.

That was 15. That was with Greg. Got it. Yeah, we totally got screwed. Because I saw someone's like, they did the math and like you would have made it to the championship four, had that thing at Talladega not happened. Yeah. That was all kinds of points scenarios I've read about.

But what was your potential in 04? Like, if it went better. No, I know, but like... But I wasn't smart. I wasn't mature and not. to really understand just how if I had maybe done it a little differently, like I really never in that whole season went,

man, I got a shot to win the championship. Or, you know, I was just racing to win, you know. And got myself, look, you know, I give, you know, Carl turned me down to back straightaway Atlanta, but I was, I feel complicit in that. I feel a little responsibility to, like, be a little smarter in that scenario to not get us wrecked there. And that was a big chunk of,

points at a track where we should run top five if everything goes well. So that's a tough year. Great year. One of my more proudest moments in my career has been able to go win six or so races in a year. Wow. You know, not many people get to do that. But there was a, I definitely left something on the table. And had I had a better mindset instead of, you know, thinking about, you know, hanging out

my buddies every Wednesday. or Tuesday night and making that almost as much of a priority as priority as the racing because it was in 2004 had I been more Jimmy Johnson-esque, right? Just like hammer down.

Hammer down and race, race, race, race, racing, every day. It might have been a different result, but who knows. Interesting. It's always kind of fascinating. You go in those what-if scenarios. I want to ask a few more things about Darlington. Tyler Reddick. Like, what a freaking trooper he was. with basically like

MJ's got the flu game and now Reddick has the flu race. MJ's watching it. I felt, I felt for him in that. No one was going to remember this. What? No.

Really? He won. Or if he would have actually gotten sick. He won the regular season championship though. Like, he walked away with a trophy at the racetrack. But he didn't end up, he didn't end up getting sick.

Throwing up or sht himself. Oh, he was sick. No, I understand he felt bad. He didn't puke. He didn't do that. He didn't do that either? No. He said in the post-race press conference,

they gave him something before the race, which basically prevented him from, it locked him up. And he wished that it didn't happen because he just wanted to get it out. Sorry to all the listeners. I'm sure this is a very interesting topic. Yeah. Hope you're eating lunch right now.

I remember. Hope it's a tacos house. I remember it. First chili of the year on this one. I remember Junior Motorsports had the Navy car in Xfinity series. Mark McFarland's driving. We're at Phoenix.

We're running about 8th. And that was a pretty good day for us. Mark's doing a good job. All of a sudden, Mark just kind of goes up to the third groove and like lost about six spots in two laps. And I'm like, what in the hell is going on? What is Mark doing?

What the hell, Mark? And the crew chief's like, he's throwing up. Oh, my God. How bad would that be? They had, he'd got something. Casey Mears was telling us he did that backstress with whatever race tracking. It's like, you realize how much you have to close your eyes.

Yeah. Yeah. When you have to, yeah. When you're in a race car doing it. And then it's all over. All over you. Ugh. He had ate something that morning.

That was just like food poisoning. That was chili dogs. It was chicken. Heavy chicken? I didn't want to say you. I'm never eating chicken again. Yeah. Well, that's on you.

Have you ever been felt remotely sick in a race car? No. No. But I feel like that would not be a fun. thing to have to deal with. Yeah. I did, and I talk about this in the, I talk about this in the driver number eight book that we did on our rookie year.

I did have, almost had a Tony Stewart moment where I, and we won, we won at Richmond. I don't realize it during the race. So as I'm driving the car and I drive to, I drive and win the race, I'm not feeling anything. Everything's fine. I pull into Victory Lane and all of a sudden it hit me. I was like, oh, I got to go to the bathroom and I've got to go. right this second. And right next to Victory Lane back then was the Unicow 76 building. There was one of those buildings at every racetrack and they'd had the gas pumps there. And so you, and when I was a young

kid, my dad would always go to the Unicow 76 building to use the bathroom. Always go in there and cool off in the air conditioner or whatever. It was like a little driver's lounge and there's I was always comfortable going into that building. I got out of the car. Usually they hold you, you know, for TV. They're going to hold you because they're coming back from commercial. Well, I just got out and they're like, no, no, no. I'm like, I'm getting out. She didn't say a word.

Back up. And, um, hold ass. Everybody's like, there's this moment where everybody's like, yeah. Yeah. And I just turned and walked out of Victory Lane into the, you know, Cal Building. My PR person comes running after me. And he's like, what's going on? I was like, I got to use the bathroom.

Go back to Victor Lane, tell everybody I'll be there in five minutes. And I went back in there in five or ten minutes. And we reenacted the whole. thing over again. It's in the book. It's in the book. But that's probably the closest ever came.

But I'm just going to say, like you said, Jordan had the flu game. Jordan won that game. Jordan, that game was like a, like a big, he scored all these points. Yeah, but like Tyler was racing for something. Yeah.

I mean. And he accomplished it by one point. He's not going to let this go. I'm not. You're not going to, you believe in your argument. I just, I think Tyler deserves some credit. Respect for what he does.

I'm giving him some respect and credit. I don't hate you. I find it to be meh. Yeah, me too. Really? I know that's so rude. Man, I just can't help it. She's going to get roasted guys.

I don't know. I just feel like I know what it's like to be sick. And you don't want to do anything except for like laying bed and you got to go compete for points in a race car that's hot. I don't even drive home well. Let me tell you something like when I want to say. All right. So let me say. So listen, I do appreciate Tyler.

I think he's great kid. good dude um love that he's streaming online playing video games and doing things like that putting himself out there and he raced here once a championship

so there's just you know i got massive respect i think back to uh probably around nineteen eighty six or eighty seven uh the cup series went to bristol and Kyle petty had the flu

was really sick and they're like he's probably not going to finish the race he's driving I think for the Wood Brothers at a time but he gets in the car and he's they're running along and halfway through the race he's running good top five and then a couple cars come down at pit road

under a caution and now he's going to inherit the lead and he leads 25 30 laps and Benny Parsons is like yeah you know you feel terrible you feel awful when you're you're sick but when you get in a car the car and driving the car, particularly at a place like Darlington or Bristol,

demands so much focus that you don't get, it almost, it's such a distraction, such a welcome distraction. I forget about it. And you forget how terrible you feel. And so, you know, instead of, if, now if Kyle Petty had been running 30th, he would have probably just said, I screw this, I'm getting out, who can get in this car? But he's actually got a competitive car, and it was distracting. and I never really

I was like wow you know Kyle Kyle Pady with a flu unreal and you know then I started driving race cars and got in the car with the flu and raced with some you know race sick and it's true like

you you forget all of the crap you're feeling and you actually you'd go out on the racetrack and drive the car and you'd come back in garage like during practice and stuff and it's like oh yeah i still have that sore throat i forgot you know or you know you kind of like bummed because just for a brief moment you almost forgot you were feeling like and so i don't know maybe that's all true it seems like it's true

yeah it is it seems like to be hard to do anything else when you're that hot and you have to focus yeah you can't like not focus on the car 100 and so i bet at least during during a lot of that race under Green Flag. You know, it's probably the cautions is when he's sitting there going, God, I'm miserable, I'm going, I'm going to throw up, I'm about to vomit. Yeah. But I think during the Green Flag runs, it was probably a welcome distraction. And why he probably didn't get out of the car, there was probably not many people that could get in it.

Nobody was really out of the race. True X wasn't going to be able to fit. They talked about that. So that's why I think, to me, it's kind of like, hey, okay, yeah, you run the race. He finished. He was sick. He was going to throw up. All right.

It's not, to me, like Michael Jordan playing a basketball game with the flu, and scoring all their points and beating that team. It's not the same to me. Fair enough. You asked me yesterday to dig up our playoff predictions from February, and so I've got them. And you were right on, I hate that you were right, but you were right on a lot of things you want to hear them.

Yes. I love what I'm right. Did y'all make any bets on this yet either? Amy just your chance. You know what? I need to introduce Amy to Fan Duel. It seems like she loves gambling. Girls, I wouldn't mind gambling.

I don't like to lose, though. So here's that's where I probably wouldn't do it. But like you guys are so competitive. Well, on Fan Duel, you get bonus bets. So it's like bets with their money. Do other people or is it just you that gets free money? I could sign you up. No, everyone.

I could sign you up. Amy, I could sign you up. get like $100 in bonus bets. Use code. I also would get some bonus bets to besides. Here is why he actually. Yeah, yeah. That's why.

Well, if you don't want me to get those bonus bets, you have another friend that can sign you up. They could sign you up. They could get the bonus bets and then you and your girlfriends could. Yeah. So you all do all these things, but there's no actual reward. It's just the glory of being right. That's right.

Pretty much. Yeah. It's almost as good as bonus does. Have you seen the ticker upstairs? This really didn't start taking off until the year, last year I called Blaney to the championship in February and he goes and wins the championship. Everybody's like, Blaney. Remember? Yeah.

You didn't shut up about it. I remember. Well, of course. If you had done the same thing, you would still be telling us about it. I'm going to playoff media day tomorrow and I'm telling every driver that they're my pick to win. Every single one. And then I'm just going to play the right clip at the end. Yes.

Brilliant. Brilliant. So here's what we have. You said Spire improves performance, the seven car wins. I disagreed on that. Look who's right. Look who's right. This guy.

Justin Haley overachieves. Busher misses the playoffs. You were right about that. Brad wins a race, which you were right about. Ty Gibbs to make the round of 12. Still TBD on that. You said he'd get a win, maybe two. So we're still waiting on that.

Chase Elliott to make the round of eight an improvement over last season. Still is on, still debatable. He's, Chase has been he's had a rough run in the past several weeks you said

I don't think SHR will win well look at what happened this past weekend but then you also gave yourself insurance by saying this they may luck out and get a win somewhere

and boot somebody out of the playoffs boom I mean that exactly you just said you just said two scenarios though you're like oh they won't win but they might yeah

left myself an exit exit route you took the exit route off the roll train Yeah. But you did call. I was listening to this and I'm like, damn it, he's right about this stuff.

So, all right, this is your 16. LaJoy, Bubba, Kyle Bush, so three that didn't make it right there. Well, then that's not good. Kislauski, Bell, Chastain, who didn't make it. Bowman, Gibbs, Elliott, Reddick, Turex, Byron, Lugano, Larson, Hamlin, Blaney, and Blaney's your champion.

So you got one, two. I missed four, so I think that's pretty s p-h. If you can't get like at least twet, it's not really good unless you got like 12 of, how many are there, 16? Yeah, so you got 12 of 16. No, I think if you're 16, you've got to get at least 14 for it to be honorable.

People are complaining about the playoff system. All 400 cars are in, all four Gibbs cars are in, all three Penske cars are in. So like the top of the top is in the playoffs. It's not like anybody really got. That's a really good point. Like, I don't know that,

I don't know what people are complaining about. I thought it was an eh point. Eh, there's a eh. That's a good point. That's a good point. Okay, all right. Nice work. So we've got all,

we've got all the guys that everybody's really cheering for all the time in there. And then there's a few. And then you have Tyler Redick, right? And then those guys, right? How many drivers do you think can realistically win the championship?

I was looking at it. I think you could confidently say eight. Eight guys who are like, all right, they have a chance to win. and then eight who you're like I can't stop staring at her mustache do you have a mustache who

Andrew Andrew it's longer than the rest Is it? Yeah He's been hiding it behind his microphone like this Now he's sitting up and I can see it

Now you're not going to be able to see him We're going to do the rest of your show like this Like so I think like Larson, Bell Redick, Byron Blaney Yes eight Hamlet

Chase and then like one more guy Maybe Lugano, maybe Trex. Yeah, yeah. You got a wild card in there. Yeah. Yeah, eight.

You're right. Eight, eight contenders. Are you all going to reselect your champion? Yeah. Are you changing off of Blaney? No, I'll stick with Blaney. Okay. I think you can't change.

You're not allowed to change after you. You can't change your champion. You pick your champion and you can't change it. Well, since they can't remember and find their list, surely it will be close. Like, you probably pick this thing. My champ four is probably Larson Bell. Denny, and give me Tyler Redick. Larson wins the championship. That's me.

You think Larson wins a championship? Yeah. I think this year is... I think Larson's going to win too. Yeah, I mean, there's got... My championship for is Lugano, Larson, Hamlin, Blaney. And Blaney wins. And Blaney wins. Back to back. I... Good for him. I do want to say this. If I am wrong,

if this does not happen Christopher Bell wins a championship I could see that being a very I think Christopher Bill doesn't make the round of eight you see that was what I said you said he either like doesn't make the round of eight or he goes all the way

that's right like there's no in between no Christopher Bell he doesn't make the round of eight or he wins the title you know what's actually more difficult is not picking a champ four but the first four out I think is way more difficult

because like mine I think is Burton, Briscoe Suarez and Bowman but then you've got Cindrick in there you've got Ty Gibbs you got Churrex like there's there's other guys that could

And you got mad Gal Bush coming after you Right exactly yeah the whole time A man on a mission A heat seeking missile I think my four would be Bell Denny Chase

and Joey. I know I'm taking a little bit of weird route there. I don't know. Something about Kyle just seems not that I doubt him. He's the greatest guy to hold his steering wheel right now, but just, it's just circumstantial. All right. Thoughts on Harrison Burton. I only ask because our...

About it. Just, does he make it past the first round, the 21 car? I mean, the odds would say no. What are the treks? Vegas odds would say, they know. What are the tracks?

It's Atlanta, Watkins Glen, Bristol. I think he's got an uphill. Those are hard tracks for him to. I think they go into Atlanta going when we got to win it. Yeah. Yeah. If I was, if I'm like,

you know, Suarez, he will do that because he won Atlanta earlier, so he's going in there in his mind thinking, I can win. Why? I don't have to win. I'm going to win. I can't win. I did it. But like Cendrick and Bowman, I don't know if Bowman will have that attitude. He might think that there's a points route for him to get there.

But I think, you know, Briscoe, they should not, they might could just really kind of throw caution to the win. Just this one race. Just this one race. And just be crazy risk takers, right? Because all of the people that they're battling, all the guys on this first half, the first eight, let's say from Brad Kiselowski to Larson, right?

They look at Atlanta and go, let's just not screw up. Just bring it home. Let's not crash out. Let's not have something happen. Let's not put ourselves anywhere near any dangerous situation, right? And so that's when a guy like Harrison Burton can say, oh, they're going to drive very cautiously. They won't drive cautiously at the Glen and these other tracks because they're going to go out there and think, well, I'm going to run hard and I know how to do that and I know how to do it here. But Atlanta is an anomaly, much like Talladega.

And so that's Burton's chance to say, this is my moment, because they're going to under-deliver. They're going to be careful. And here I can take advantage of that, right? That's the mentality I think you need. Don't go in there and think you're going toe-toe these guys at these other racetracks, right? Yeah. That's a great point.

So go to Atlanta and even go to Atlanta and go, hey, they got a lot to lose. They got a lot to lose and they're going to be, they're going to, they're going to try to shelter that, you know, and they're going to try to, they got a little, you know, 40 point lead, 28 point lead, 22 point lead, whatever. They're going to try to, oh, we've got to protect that. We've got to come out of here in a decent position. So they're going to be driving cautiously, not taking risk, not taking chances. That's your opportunity to counterbalance that. Thank you, tire pros, for everything you guys do to support us here at Dale Jr. Download and Dirtymo Media Tire Pros. They've got over, I don't know, 600, 800 locations nationwide.

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Yeah, Amy. It'll be great. Amy had a really good time of Florence. Good. So we talked about in the past, how Florence was a track that I raced at in the 90s a lot and Myrtle Beach was my home track, if you will. Myrtle Beach was my main track. And Florence was a Friday night race track that we went to most of the time.

Now, we didn't go every single race. In 1996, though, we did. Me and Wesley, my crew chief and trusted companion, my pal, we went to Florence on Friday, and Myrtle Beach on Saturday every week. And I think we ran 16 races that year at Florence in 1996. And we run 22 at the beach. So in 94-95, I might have ran 6 to 8 or 10 races at Florence. One or two weekends in 1996,

we would run Florence on Friday night and then drive all the way to Nashville Fairgrounds and race there on Saturday. Two different cars, mind you. We would drive from the, shop, the deerhead shop, that's where I kept my cars, the old deerhead shop at DEI. We would keep our cars there and we would load up in our goose neck and our dulae and drive all the way to Florence, South Carolina.

We would race and practice and get done around midnight and drive home and swap cars. And we would either drive back past Florence to go race at Myrtle Beach on Saturday night, or we would load up and go all the way to the fairgrounds and race at the fairgrounds. And so it was fun. We loved it. We heard all these stories in the past about dad and those guys racing their sportsmen cars in the 70s running on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday all weekend. Four races and four days. Every weekend.

Often, I mean, just racing, racing, racing. It's crazy. There's no tracks running on Thursday nights. No oval tracks, no asphalt oval tracks at least. Rarely do many of them run on Friday night. I bet he did not have time to play any Madden. No, there's no time now. Yeah.

I don't know how you even slept, just doing the two, much less. Man, it was fun. We used to have a lot of fun. In Florence, so I really regret not racing at Myrtle Beach in the last decade, right? And it's now gone. They've developed the track and there's going to be houses there. So I can't go back to the beach. I should have.

I was stupid and drugging my feet and didn't get back into late model racing until after I retired. I should have tried to do some of it in the last probably 15. years and just didn't. So anyhow, I decided to get back into it and Florence is still digging. Florence has new owners, Steve Zacharias and his wife Jacqueline, their

family, they run it and it has not changed. It looks exactly like it did when I race there. Now they've got it looking really nice. They've done some work and put a lot, you know, new bathrooms, new suites and all that stuff. But it doesn't look

different, which I love. It's still very nostalgic. I have wanted Amy to go. I've been racing at Florence since I went back to late models for the last three or four years and I've run about six races there and I've wanted Amy to go to see it. She's never been to

that grassroots local short track with me to see what that's like. The closest thing that she would compare it to was the Wilkesboro thing we did in August a couple years back. And so So she decided I took the fifth wheel

From Camping World that we got Me and a couple friends Drove it up there Thursday morning We had practice all day It was hotter in hell It was 90 freaking something degrees I saw Tim Dugger was keeping you cool Tim Dugger

Like a leaf blower through the window Dude it was just Was that miserable? Did that feel good? Yeah it did feel good I don't know, leaf blower to the face normally Well I had a helmet hot All the body parts It was so hot in the car

He's like I'm just You just needed some air moving was better than nothing. I mean, it was so miserable. And we had a little problem with the splitter. The nose rolled up under. There's a little bump in turn three that got my car tore up. So we had to work on that. It was just hot and miserable.

The car really wasn't doing everything I wanted to do speed-wise. I didn't know if we were that good or not. Sort of just kind of having a really, really, tough day in a, but all of the things, you know, it's still better than anything

because you badly, badly want to be there. You badly, badly want to be doing this and you miss it. So even as miserable as it was, it was a fun day. Amy and some friends

came up the next day. We had some practice in the morning on Friday for the race day. And Amy and the girls, Amy some friends of hers come on up and were there the majority of Friday. And so, yeah, and got to meet pretty much everybody. They were, you know, Florida's fun because my car is parked, our spot where we park our car inside the track, the race car,

is literally at the end of pit road, you walk across the racetrack to get in and out right in turn one, and that's, you walk straight past my car, right, if you're going to go into the track. And my camper is right outside the track. Literally. Yeah. So they're 50 feet away from each other. Or 50 yards.

And so pretty fun. And, you know, I just, I'll, I mean, I'll let Amy describe what she experienced and how much, you know, what she thought of Florence, the racetrack and the whole whole thing. It was warm Friday. We got, you know, it was five degrees, maybe cooler than it was Thursday, which was kind of, decent and the race was at night which helped a lot and um and we had a fun race so um i as far as the race goes um i i'm a i'm a terrible qualifier i have no idea why i don't know what i'm doing wrong uh i am bound and damn determined to figure out how to do better in qualifying i just need a tenth and it's seeing me it's something i'm doing to the to the car as i'm driving it once we get

the races going, I'm okay. I can figure out, you know, once I get into some repetition and start to move my line around and find out how I'm supposed to drive the car. It's like your racecraft is better than, you know. So we qualify ourselves in a really bad hole, and that forced us to do a strategy that we really prefer not to do, but it's really the only one that's going to work in this scenario. We're going to have a caution, which we knew was going to happen. and that was going to land around lap 60, so we rode for the first half of the race, save tires as much as we could, did everything we could,

not to get lapped, but run as slow as possible without getting lapped. And then when we know we're going to race the second half of the race without a yellow, unless there's a natural caution coming, we're going hard, we're going to push hard and drive toward the front, and that's what we did. And drove back up to 10th place and ended up with the top 10, Car was probably about a, we got held up a little bit by a couple guys running side by side and couldn't really get by them.

Not really their fault. Just we were running out a race car, running out of a tire near the end of the race. It was getting a little bit harder to get by some people. But we had enough speed, I think, to compete in the top five. And I just got to qualify better. When I qualify in the back, you're not going to drive from the back of the field of the front anymore. The field's too strong. And so I have to qualify in the top 15 to give us a shot at it.

Amy, how would you describe this experience from your perspective then? I mean, it was fun. It was very laid back. And it was warm, but it's warm everywhere right now. So I expected that. It was neat watching how happy he was because I have spent a lot of time with him at the big races. And that was very stressful. And he always keeps telling me how fun it is to go back to these old tracks.

But he's like always telling me too how miserable hot and all these things. I miss everybody. It's so hot. I didn't qualify well. Like, I know he's still enjoying it, but the look on his face is very different than it was racing cup races. And qualifying is not changed. We hated qualifying day back then, too.

I mean, we would have some really, really rough Friday evenings after qualifying. He hated it. So that hasn't changed, but it didn't matter as much then as it does, I guess, now because you're in such a small track and the car handles totally differently. It was fun watching the last, I don't know, 20 laps because you could see an obvious hammer down. And it was over before I realized it was the last laugh. I was like, wait a second. He just got going.

We needed a couple more. Like if we had had seven more laps, I think he would have at least gotten up to the top three. Yeah. Because he was moving. Yeah. It wasn't obvious. Everybody else was able to see it too. It wasn't just me.

And so we were all screaming. And we were in the suite so you could see the whole race track. We had a people that had never been to a race before with us. And so we want to have that advantage. point, but they could all see it, and everybody was on their feet screaming. The environment there is super cool. Did you go? No, but I went to your last race at Florence. Where were you? You were in town? Where was I? I was home. You went to Darlington. Yeah, just on Sunday. Oh, I got you. See, I didn't have a place to stay, so it would have been

going back in the park. Well, I had a bunk in the top of the camper. You could have stayed up there. Dang, I would have done that. You'd had to listen to Tim Dugger snoring. Yeah, you wouldn't have slept in the bunk. It doesn't sound fun anymore. Are you racing again in Florence? We have... Am I not supposed to ask that question? No, it's sorry. Florence has... Florence has an...

I mean, they, you know, the great... Florence, we ran Friday night. We were leaving Saturday morning. Saturday, they had three series come in, Legends, Cars, Bandoleros, and then they had another deal Sunday. So, I mean, they had a whole weekend full of racing. They'll probably have more than this.

I don't know if you want to go on their website and look at the schedule, but there is a race, South Carolina 400. It happens right before Thanksgiving on Saturday. I've ran that over the last several years. I'm eyeing maybe going back and we'll just have to, if we're going to do it, we'll certainly have an announcement soon. And then the icebreaker in February is another race that I ran in the past.

So, I mean, those two are fun kind of bookends to the season. I didn't really, you know, racing in the summer is tough. It is hot and is really, really hard on the teams. So I love those two events because the weather's really reasonable. And I like to race at Florence. But yeah, I don't know what we're going to do going forward. But we're going to do something. You know, we'll just have to see.

We got this Xfinity race coming up at Bristol. I'll be there. I'll support you from there. I kind of keep forgetting about that. I know. We talk so much about all these late-mowers. That's like the sign that maybe it's time to like, all right, we're close the book on. racing in the Xfinity series and you're like,

I forgot about that. I'm racing bristol under the lights. Kind of a big thing. Yeah. So everybody's like, it's just really your last race? I'm like,

hmm, probably. Yeah, pretty sure. At least in, I'm a little bit. I'm a little bit. Yeah. All right, we're going to move on to

Dirty Modo and a little cars tour update. Recap of the race coming your way and then the white flag, but Amy's going to skip out, Amy. Thanks for joining us today. Thanks for having me, honey.

All right, so it's time to bring in Tampa Tim's, Dirty Mo Doe expert, and talk about how he did this past weekend with some of his best bets for Darlington and what's coming up at the race at Atlanta. Dirty Mo Doe comes out every Thursday, and they'll be the ones sort of teeing you up on some of the bets to make. Some of the bets they think you can,

you can have success on. So Tampa. Tams. Hey, hey. How you doing, buddy? What's up? How to go this weekend? Well, lap two, it started off horrible.

Oh, yeah. I had Blaney to beat Truex heads ahead, and Chirx decided to just wreck Blaney and drive it halfway around the track to the pits, and that was a loss. Yeah, so right away, Truex is going to get scored ahead of Blaney. Yep. All right, what about Larson to the win? Yeah, live bet him because he was, you know, what, 240 laps led.

I don't know how he didn't win that race. So that was disappointing. Yeah. Congratulations to Chase Briscoe. but I don't know how he didn't win that race. That's crazy. After Briscoe's sitting there running so well, why not lie I bet Briscoe? He was like 60 to 1 pre-race, and then when he's running that well, he was probably like plus 200.

And it's like, at that point, I lost everything on it. It's not going to do. Decided to Calvin night. Yeah, just like whatever. If he wins, congratulations. All right. So we got another random sort of, you know, kind of like Talladega and Daytona in terms of how do you handicap the event at Atlanta. You've got Suarez winning there, and you'll see, you know, as they're coming down to the finish of that race,

a lot of, you know, unusual suspects running up toward the front. And a lot of your favorites or the drivers you tend to think that could do well at that race can find themselves in early trouble. So how do you do this weekend? I think I'm going to take what kind of what you said earlier in the show. I think a lot of those guys that might, are in the playoffs like a Briscoe Burton that might take a risk. They might use this race as their operational. opportunity to kind of move on the next round. I might take a chance with those guys. Yeah. Is this a race, though, where, um, is this a race where you're, you're more likely to live

bet mid race or less? Less likely, right? Yeah, because it's so random and we saw the three-wide finish in, you know, the spring. It's, it's so random. I think I'm just sticking with what I bet pre-race and hoping it pans out. That's probably some great advice for, for Atlanta, uh, and Daytona, Tala, Dada, how the strategies may change in terms of how you, how you set up the weekend. So, all right, Bub. Well, who do you think, who's the underdog? Who's the, we're going into a race where, you know, like Daytona, like Talladega, you could get that, that fluke win, right?

There's always that potential. Who is that driver this weekend? I think it's Justin Haley. What? Yeah, I do. The guy's not even sniff the win. He was running really well at Daytona. Really?

Yeah. It's like crass. Man. All right. He does nearly. I mean, he does have a history, at least in the Xfinity series, for being really good at making the right moves and being able to put himself in position. But I hadn't seen it so far in the Cups series so much.

So I'm a little surprised by that. But what, I mean, the odds have to be pretty insane. Yeah, when they come out, he'll probably be pretty insane. That's kind of why I like it too. All right. Wow. All right. So Dirty Modo every Thursday.

A couple days they'll be putting out some of their information. Let's see if the rest of the guys are. on the show agree with Tampa Timbs and his Justin Haley pick. That'll be out sometime Thursday. I hope you'll tune in. All right, so before we get the white flag, we talked about it earlier in this show, the Cars Tour weekend for me and Amy a blast and a fun race. We got a recap for you right now.

Coming up. With Darlington Race Weekend is a backdrop down in the PD region of South Carolina. The Z-Max Cars Tour presented by Sound Gear was back in action this past Friday night as a part of day one of Florence Motor Speedway, Southern Showdown that featured several racing divisions throughout the weekend. A star-studded field, including that of Raja Caruth, Bubba Wallace, Kevin Harvick, and Dale Arnhart Jr. would headline the features of racing all throughout the evening, but it was the Cars Tour regulars who had the final say in Thunder Road Harley-Davidson

Poll Award qualifying. As championship points leader, Connor Hall, would not only be the first car sent out on Friday afternoon, but would be the fastest of the bunch to collect two very valuable championships. points. We kind of had a little come to Jesus meeting and realized that obviously win the championship you need to win races and we're kind of reworking our train of thought and just not necessarily points racing so much anymore and we're just going to try to go out there and win races and if the championship takes care of it that way then it does. With Hall taking the top spot it would be his championship rival in Brendan Queen who would qualify second Mason Diaz third, Cody Kelly qualified

in fourth and Ryan Millington would rank. round out the top five. With the exceptionally abrasive surface at Florence Motor Speedway and the fact that the series was back on the F-45 tires, the beginning of the race was mired in chaos as teams looked at the pending weather that was heading towards the racetrack and had some difficulty deciding whether they wanted the track position or they wanted to save some tire for the end. I was about to say that pace is fast. Mini Tyrell leads his first lap since New River All-American Speedway earlier this year.

And he was competitive in that one as well. You can see Chad McCombie has jumped up to the outside trying to get by Connor Hall. The last times have been going back and forth. Hall ran into 186 on the opening circuit. Now he's down into the 196s. Chad McCombie, well, you can see right there three-tenths faster. So McCombie definitely trying to be a little bit aggressive to get that track position. And the problem is you get a bunch of cars like this at the front of the field.

How hard is too hard? Of all the races that we've seen Dailenhart Jr. run here at Florence Motor Speedway, I have not seen him venture up that high just yet. Trying to make some hay up there, but he's doing it right now. He's looking at the outside of Ryan Glensky. Again, this is back here for the 20th position that Junior's running in now. Brent Cruz kind of leading this line and oh, that's not going to work. Everybody checks up to Cruz under the wall.

Kelly and Jr. somehow managed to avoid him. After many Tyrell dominated the opening portion of the race, he finally received a challenge from a name, well you're probably pretty familiar with and Ryan Millington, who is trying to knock on the door to get his first win in the season. And now a battle for the race lead. Ryan Millington, mini Tyrell, side by side,

down into turn number three. Cheers for Junior throughout the grandstands, eyes on the front of this field. There's Ryan Millington go to the point. Not the first shot we said that in last few races, but it's all about trying to finish one of these races. They've had all kinds of speed the last month. and just have done everything but put it in cookout victory lane how big it would be for

ryan millington if he can hang on to this 44 laps to go millington your new leader at florin his lead the statesville north carolina native would not relinquish as he finally broke through for his first win in four years like brand of my spotter just said i never thought in a million years we'd win on Florence and uh we did it man we we didn't have the best car all night i didn't think but uh i for sure put myself in the right position at the right time i was riding there behind many and I tried past him a couple times on the bottom and I knew it wasn't going to be able to happen without burning something up so I sent her off in there on the top and was able to clear him and just kind of ran my own line and saved the rest of the race I mean I never

ran extremely hard which I was surprised about but I can't thank brandon my dad Bob Seville leisure time rentals everybody enough for everything to do to make this happen I couldn't do without them me and my dad work so hard every week to do this and uh Brandon too man we just it's a little operation we got we've worked our off this year to get to where we're at And we're going to keep working and we're going to keep doing it. And I feel like there's maybe another one or two coming for this year. Millington took top honors with Brendan Queen and second. Matt Cox third.

Connor Hall will leave Florence Motor Speedway with the same three-point championship advantage that he had coming into the night with his fourth place effort. Mason Diaz rounded out the top five, many Tyrell's sixth. Ryan Glensky was seventh. Connor Jones, eighth, Jacob Hefner, ninth, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr., rounded out the top ten. After a race off at Wake County, the pro-late models were in competition as well, with a deadlock for the championship fight entering the weekend between Spencer Davis and Caden Honeycutt. However, it was your North Wiltsboro winner in Tristan McKee,

who started defending his race win with a Mollet poll award in qualifying. Spencer Davis ended up starting on the outside of the front row with Jake Bowman and third. Caden Cople looking to make up some ground in the championship fight and fourth. Caden Honeycutt were ran out your first. your top five, and Kevin Harvick, making his pro-late model debut for the ZMAX Cars Tour, would start in the sixth position. After a couple of early engine issues for both Travis Braden and Caden Cople, Spencer Davis would finally, just like Millington and the late model stocks,

breakthrough for his first win in the season and a perhaps decisive one in the championship fight. You know, we know we needed to manage a race, and there's comers and there's goers, there's kids who just want to go out there and win, and all them years racing Myrtle Beach, rough tracks up north I knew need to run my pace and when it's time to go, front rows king, so, you know, Bowman gave me a good clean race for the lead and we got it and never checked back, just managed, and we five to go. I'm like, hell, might as well go and stretch it out, showing what I got. Jake Bowman finished in second, Caden Honeycutt brought it home in third, Tristan McKee was fourth,

and Cameron Bowlin in his pro-late model debut rounded out the top five. Tyler Church, Kevin Harvick, Dusty Garris, Dylan Garner, and Joshua Hornerman completed your top 10. Next up for the ZMAX Cars Tour presented by Sound Gear is a date at South Boston Speedway in a couple of weekends with both divisions looking to settle the championship score with just a couple of races left in the 2024 season. Of course, you could come out to the racetrack, or you can catch all of the ZMAX Cars Tour presented by Sound Gear live on Flow Racing all season long. I'm late McCandless and this has been your Cars Tour recap. Every Sunday after the race, again the tear down with Jeff Gluck, Jordan Bianchi. They dropped a good one this past Sunday about Darlington. And actions detrimental with Denny Hamlin.

A great first-person view of what it was like to be in that race and how difficult that race was. Denny does some great commentary on his experience in the race. That dropped yesterday. Dropping today is door bumper clear. Running a little late this week. You know, Labor Day. Yeah, okay. Oh.

Yeah. All right. We're on time. We're, yeah. So door bubble clear, taking advantage of the Monday holiday, will be dropping today on a rare Tuesday. Dropping tomorrow, Speed Street with Connor Daly and Chase Holden Connor, finished on the podium over the weekend.

So awesome. First one ever for that team. Yeah. So I saw that, man. I was so happy to hear it. He wants so badly to be successful. this is great motivation and momentum for him and I hope that everybody's tuning in the Speed Street

to learn all about what Connor's going through. So Padoe Award and Scott McLaughlin are going to be joining the show this week. We've got two drivers. And also we're going to have an interview with Travis Carter. Travis Carter was a team owner, but also a crew chief. He's been in the sport for a very long time.

I've never, ever. I can't ever remember, ever having a conversation with this guy. Oh, man, right? This is going to be exciting. Yeah. So I don't know what I've got myself into, but the dude's been around forever. I can't wait to kind of see where he is and what he's been up to and what all he might be able to remember from his experiences in the sport. Thursday, DJD Reloaded with Asch Jr. and more.

And then Dirty Mo Doe will be out as well on Thursday. And then, let's see, a new episode of Andrew Curlin went there. Is that a new show? What the hell is that? It's kind of like the rebrand of my at-track series that we're doing. Instead of just calling it Man on the street. Man on the street is now Andrew Curlin went there. I'll go there. Okay.

Well, a new episode of Andrew Curlin went there with Christopher Bell is out on the next level YouTube page right now. It's out now. Yep, it's out right now. Well, Dalton, you got our weekly social media standout. Yeah, this one comes from Friend of the Show, Ty Norris. last week we talked about Friend of the show. Last week we talked about your buddy Ross, the bull rider and he had a story that he wanted to share.

One time, Ross walked up to Tim McGraw at the AB convention and he had never met Tim before and he said, hey Tim, please tell your wife to stop texting me and Tim didn't know what to say and Ross started laughing and said, just kidding, hi, I'm Ross, nice to meet you. That's hilarious, faith heel, right. This is his wife. My gosh.

I told you those guys are crazy. We got the question. of the week and it's from William Byron. So Dale, I want to know how you drink so many beers after your late model races. I know for me I was gassed after those. So how you feel the next day? I feel really good after. I feel great the next day.

I feel like I get right back to beer drinking when I get up. When I would race back in the day all through my cup career. I would be so I would have so much adrenaline running that I just you know I was always I slept a lot

overslept a lot slept in late I mean you know I was never really get up early kind of person and so I was getting lots of rest and when the race is over with

I got so much adrenaline going through me I would just ride that adrenaline till 3, 4 in the morning I would either you know and I'd just go down the basement beer or hang out i'd call my buddies on the way home hey y'all y'all y'all want to hang out let's hang out

meet me at the river or whiskey river um and so we just hang out and drink and that was fine um i mean i drank a lot of water and stuff after races too on the way home but uh yeah as soon as the race was over it's like my weekend's starting you know your weekend's ending mine's beginning and I told Amy at Florence. I said, hey, and even at Wilkesboro, when she went to Wilkesboro, back when we revived that race track, when the race was over, I said, you know, there's going to be a beer cooler, there's going to be some beer drinking. You know, I know it's going to be late, but I'm not going to want to go right to bed. You may be like, hey, finally, day's over.

I'm so tired. I'm ready. She's got the kids. She's doing all the things. And she's probably like, shoo. we finally get to go to sleep. And I told her, I said, I'm probably not going to want to go to bed. I'm probably going to want to hang out with the guys.

And I don't know what they're really going to want to do. We ended up at Wilkesboro, we ended up over at this house on the property. These folks that live nearby, we went over there and drank some beer in their garage until like three, four in the morning. Damn. Late. Yeah. And we ran third in that race. But, like, after, and I told her at Florence, I said, Amy, I said, when the race.

I said when the race is over, it might be midnight, but the guys are going to want to pull out a flat iron grill and cook hot dogs and burgers and drink beer. And that might be an hour, that might be three hours. That might be drinking when the sun comes up, whatever, right? And so it rarely gets that intense. But, you know, the guys will drink, you know, I don't know, six beers, standing in the pits, and we'll not even load up.

We'll just pull the car in. I'll get out. We'll crack a beer. I mean, I have a beer in my hand probably five minutes after I get out of the car. That's electric. And we'll just drink beer and then we'll load up everything. Yeah.

Right? Just real slow. And we're the last ones. Like everybody's pulling out. We're saying bye. You know, hey, man, good run. Good job. Hey.

That's how it should be though. Yes. Gosh, the memories, dude. And we got done and loaded the team up. So that was, we could probably sit there and drink beer till one o'clock or so. It wasn't that late because the race didn't end too late. So we got done and got the guys out of there

and they're on the road home. But from the moment the race ended till when we finally loaded up was about an hour and a half or just hanging out drinking about four or five, six beers. Then we went over to the camper and sat around the camper and had another six beers, right? And then we got up in the morning and we're loading up and hitching our fifth wheel at 9 in the morning

and then drove home. Yeah. That's how it should be. You're doing that Bristol? Maybe not as extreme. Bristol, that's the thing. Like at the Xfinity and Cup races, everybody leaves. There's no hanging out.

That's too bad. Yeah. Like there were a couple, we had a beer cooler on pit road at Martinsville, and we drank beer with Clement. and a couple of the guys when we got out of the car at the end of the race. Noah, a couple other people came by that year. You know, so, I mean, if I, if I try hard, we can have a beer cooler at the NASCAR races, but it's just, it's a little different.

Yeah. Nobody else is staying. Like, everybody, you know, I don't know, it's a different vibe. Like when at the grassroots level, people just kind of hang around and nobody's in a big rush. Yeah. Because it's Saturday night. not, you know, Sunday night. Right.

It's a little different. Not everybody's got to run home, get to work, all that stuff. But, yeah, I don't know. I mean, he's young. He'll get there. Talking about Byron. Oh, yeah, I'm like, wait, how do we get... William Byron.

I mean, how many, if William Byron were to sit down and drink beer, how many beers is a lot of beers to him, right? When I was his age, five, six beers was a lot of beers to me. Yeah. Maybe, right? Yeah. And eight was a really, really, really lot of drinking, right? Eight or ten beers was a ton of drinking beer, right?

You're like, God dang, I was messed up at eight beers. But now, like, you know, especially those 55, shoot, I'll drink, I drank Saturday, no, Sunday, I drank about 20 beers. Oh, my God. Yeah. Wow. But they're 55s. They're like half, two and a half percent, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really like drinking about 10. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's right. Good stuff. All right, man. Hey, appreciate everybody tuning in. Hope you enjoyed Amy being a part of the show.

She'll be back at the first of the next month. A lot of people talk about TJ, how much fun he was on the show. Might be able to get him back in here. We're talking to Mike trying to convince him to do that. And otherwise, yeah, everybody have a great week. Don't forget, Travis Carter tomorrow, all the other things going on on Dirty Mo Media. And the race in Atlanta this weekend should be a lot of fun.

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