The Dale Jr. Download - 72 - Loudon: "We dodged a big bullet"

Episode Date: September 23, 2014

Dale Earnhardt Jr. gives insight into the intensity of the new chase format and the huge bullet the 88 team dodged in the form of a loose wheel on Sunday. 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. Nice long race last 127 to go. There'll be a ton of yellow. The winning strategy hasn't even been determined yet. So we'll just get our lap back first. Then we'll see what kind of opportunity we have. We've got a good car. We'll be fun.

Hey, everybody's, Jr., just got home from New Hampshire. Pretty wild race today. You guys are getting your money's worth these last couple weeks. These races are pretty intense, especially the last, you know, 150 miles or so. We had tons of cautions there at the end, so you know, the intensity's up, and guys are racing each other real hard. Anyhow, we had a real good car this weekend on Friday and Saturday, which is really important. I think that, you know, coming off the trailer fast, feeling confident, making changes,

learning, seeing what those things do, that's all really important on Friday and Saturday. And when you unload a car and it doesn't have speed and you can't practice well, your times don't look good, compared to the guys that you think are quick and the things you're changing on the car aren't responding and the car is not responding. That's very frustrating and it's hard to have a lot of faith and belief in the car on Sunday. You know, it's just a whole lot easier and a whole lot nicer when you just practice well and actually get a lot of confidence in the car throughout the weekends. We were able to do that this weekend and that felt good. When the race started, we had some balance issues we needed to work on.

I think that Steve and the guys had some things in there that they put in the car due to the rain and the lack of rubber. We ended up making some great changes and made the car much more competitive after the first stop. We had a little issue on pit road. You're going to have loose wheels. You just are. That's going to happen. Those guys are working their guts out. He's got those air rinsches tuned to do the job as fast as they can and try to cut some time off of the overall stop.

And I think that that also, you know, in talking to my right front changer, I think that also opens the window for those kind of things to happen. So there's a balance there between having a gun that can do the job quickly, but also being able to get those things tight every time and being consistent on that. So I wasn't too worried about it. I've had loose wheels before. You just got to understand that the wheel's going to come off eventually at some point. So you need to get your butt on pit road as fast.

as you can't you can't run well or run in the top 10 if you back it in the wall. So you just come down pit road. You know, you're going to lose a little time. Steve was smart to put four tires on it because we were going to lose lap anyways. So we got back out there and just started trying to figure out what we could do to get a good result. So we were patient. We got our lucky dog eventually. It was a little bit late in the race when we got it, but we were able to pass a lot of guys on restarts.

Not every restart's going to be awesome, but we were able to make a lot of ground up on restarts. And I think that there was a couple where we passed multiple cars and were able to get ourselves up into the top 10. We eventually got up into the sixth place. Hell, we were passing or had passed Jimmy Johnson on the outside when that one last restart or last cause come out. NASCAR said that Jimmy was ahead at the last scoring loop. So he got that position, which is understandable. car has all that information so we had to restart on the inside seven restarting on the inside is not not where you want to be I mean you try to make the best of it but the

outside's a whole lot funer you can move forward on the outside easier so uh ended up finishing ninth after everything that happened everything we went through we dodged a big bullet people are talking about our performance our speed whether we're falling off whether we peeked too early or you know I ain't worried about it Chicago is not a great track for us. New Hampshire is not a great track for us. We went there, worked our guts out. We got some decent finishes, and we got some great tracks coming up.

So I think these rounds are harder than I anticipated. We're going in with a little bit of a cushion, 28 points. If we give up 28 points and don't make the next round, with that kind of finish, I don't know if we deserve to go any further. But that's not, you know, that's not what we're going to worry about. We got a good cushion and that makes it, you know, that makes the whole weekend a lot easier. And we'll try to get on through this round. Try to go out there and win a race.

We get to move on to some tracks that I think that we have a better shot at to be more competitive at. And we'll try to continue to improve on consistency. And we've had some good speed, so just got to get the results to match with the way the car's been running. You know, this chase, man, I'm telling you. This thing is intense. Hopefully we can avoid all the nonsense. And, you know, we love to win races. We're going out there to try to win races.

Trust me, I want to finish as high as I can. We're working every lap trying to pass cars. But, you know, as long as we're, you know, in that last round with a shot, I mean, that's all it matters. So I hope you guys enjoyed the race. I don't know how you couldn't have. It's a pretty awesome race. And we'll see you next week. This is the Dale Jr. Download.

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Crazy. It was crazy. but you know what a lot of adversity loose wheel with all due respect to my man Kislauski or Kinseth or anyone else that faced adversity Kyle Busch that faced a tremendous adversity Still beat us. Yeah well that's what I was going to say

it's a lot harder to face adversity during a green flag than it is when it brings out a caution you know because you get to stay on that lap but hey they unbelievable rally Mike and you were there to witness it. Taylor we were a lot closer to disaster than I even realized at the time. Because, you know, when that wheel went loose, it was lap 118. I guess I just felt like lap 118 is early enough in a race because anywhere else it would be.

Even at Martinsville, it's not even a quarter of the way through. But at New Hampshire, it's a lot further along than you realize. And I also figured we'd get the lap back pretty quick because we were really fast. We were six when that happened. I figured it we could get it. And we got back into Lucky Dog position pretty quick. We passed Biffel pretty quick. But, man, it took a while to get that Lucky Dog.

It took a while to get the lap back. When we finally did, there was, what, like 110 laps left or 120 laps left? That's not a long time at Loud. We actually are really lucky there was the number of cautions that there were. Oh, yeah, there's no question. There was, what, 10 cautions of the last 100 lapsed? I want to say, Mike, with 70 to go, Dale Jr. was 23rd. Yeah.

I mean, so to your point, yeah, there's no doubt. I mean, if that stays green, there's no way you finish his ninth. No, no, no, no. Not back there. I mean, you're like, well, you say you were fast in practice or you say you were fast in the early race. What happened? Well, there's one little thing. It's a big wall of air that is affecting the car.

Basically, it's a headwind. You know, you'd have the fastest airplane in the world, but it ain't as fast when it's in a headwind. That's basically what you have when you're in 23rd place. So it was going to take a while to get up there. Fortunately, being the restart master that he is, you like that? That's right. Yeah, I like that. Well, he's always been known as a restart.

All those cautions that we had, he was able to pick off two, two, three spots at a time, climb his way back at the top ten. And like he said, if that one of the cautions didn't come out, he might have been six, he might have even been up fifth, who knows, but look, it is. It's wild. Jeff Gordon has had an incredible year. Jeff Gordon had a loose wheel and hit the fence, and Jeff Gordon is seven points behind Dale Jr. Right now in the standings. So, you know, and it basically comes down to a loose wheel.

because Jeff Gordon's seventh in the standing. So Kurt Bush is really in trouble because he had a loose wheel yesterday, and he had a top 10 run going. So it is, it's crazy. Something crazy is going to happen in Dover, Delaware, and let's hope they stay out of it. I don't remember being as nervous during a race, maybe the Daytona 500 this year when Junior was out front,

that green-white checker. But I'm going to tell you something. Junior touched on it in that piece of audio we just listened to. This is intense. And personally, I wasn't prepared for the intensity that it has had. Honestly, you know, and Junior and I were talking about that as we were driving back to his house.

We landed back here in North Carolina, and we were still talking about how the anxiety levels just seems to be at an all-time high. And he felt it. He felt it in the race car. I felt it. I even felt it after the checkered flag. Like, for whatever reason, my heart rate still wouldn't go down.

You know what I mean? This was just intense, and he was saying, I wonder if it's because of the format. or if it's because we've just been locked in the chase for so long, and now it's time to actually step up and prove that this is the best season we've ever had. And I said, I think it's because it's the format. I think this is exactly what NASCAR asked for. I think it's super exciting for the fans.

It is very hard to live it and have a vested interest in it like we do. But that being said, I don't remember being this nervous, and I don't know what I'm going to do at Dover. I'm probably going to get Junior to the car and then just go find a medic and just watch the race next to the medic. I don't know if I can take it. Dover's going to be ridiculous. Do you understand that?

Yes. How many bubble guys are there? There's like nine, right? Right. Oh, at least. Do you realize that the stuff they're going to be pulling with 50-lap-old tires and running like junk, they ain't going to pit, Taylor.

They're going to go straight from like 20 to first. And this Dover is going to be sick. It's going to be. It's the format. I mean, listen, the chase and, and, you know, being locked in and all those things, those certainly provide anxiety. It's the format, Mike. I mean, every three weeks you reset, you know, who's in and who's out.

That is tremendous drama. Denny Hamlin could have won the race yesterday. Now he's probably not going to make the next round. Yeah. To clarify, you're saying it absolutely is the format. I'm not talking bad about the format. I like the format. No, no, no, it's great.

Hear me. We like the format. Yeah. I'm just saying, I don't think anybody was prepared for the, level of anxiety that it brings. No, I think that's true. That was tense. I go to Loudoun, you know, I eat my lobster.

You know, get Junior to where he needs to be on time. And then we cut out of there. Where'd you eat lobster? What is that place down the road? Is it in New Hampshire? Macri's. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that place is really good.

Yeah. That place is phenomenal. I was just curious because I've gone to three different places in my time going to Loudon. And the best place I went was someplace in Maine. But anyway. By the way, I want to make sure this is right. He said 28 points. Isn't it 22 points?

I will say this, that I did notice on Sunday night after the race immediately on TV, it said 28 points, and it put him fifth on the chase grid. However, when I went on to NASCAR.com later in the night, he was pushed to 6 with Kyle Busch and him equal, and it jumped to 22 points ahead of that 12th place spot. Well, that's interesting because let me tell you what happened. And as soon as he got out of the car, Taylor, he always does this. He went right to that sprint, you know, fan vision that Laura has, and he was looking at it.

And so I didn't have a chance to look at it. I was doing things right there at the car, but we were talking about it. He went right to it, and it showed him as 28-point cushion. And him and Colin and tied for fit. Well, just let me clarify this. He is 22 points from 12th place. Yes. He is 28 points from 13th place.

That's right. So he is 28 points to the good because the 28, you know, Denny Hamlin is tied for 13th right now with Greg Biffle. But regardless, look, that is something that you have to be mindful of. As Dale Jr. said, great tracks are coming up. Think about his performance. He had absolutely, without any question, championship level performance at these eight tracks coming up last year, would have won the chase in this format last year with the way he raced in those eight places. So there's no doubt great tracks coming up.

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It's time now for Reaction Theater. Well, just saw the check the flag drop. Not too happy. I think we came in ninth. It's not that bad. I thought we could have had fifth until that last caution. I'm just a little sore. I don't really like seeing Joy Lugano win.

I don't really care that much about them. Oh, we had by the fifth place car, but Junior said we need to average 12. So I think with barring any unforeseen circumstances next weekend, should make it in. There's a little blip of TJ on there doing his spot and saying, man, you ever think about being an auctioneer? Hell yeah, five beers. Well, there's a couple things to go here.

That's a good call. First of all, Junior didn't say we needed to average 12. He said that the worst you do is 12th, then you'd be happy. But he said you need to average around 6th to 8th to win a championship, just to clarify there. Now, secondly, what is he talking about the T.J. and the auctioneer? I don't know. TV played a little bit of TJ. Go, go, go, low, go,

one, you know, well, you know, oh, okay. Okay, did you guys notice that Junior got a little chippy with TJ during the race? Oh, yeah. Did you? Can I tell you the conversation in the car afterwards? Of course. Yes. The, uh, thank you. Dale Jr. was really mad

at not TJ. He was mad at whoever hit him because he, like, I guess he took out, who was it the wrecked? The three, was that when the three hit him from behind? Taylor, do you remember? No, no, no, but who spun out in front of Junior? Junior tagged somebody. Stenhouse, wasn't it?

Stenhouse, that's who it was. That's right. Yes, thank you. And so Dale Jr. was trying to find out who it was that hit him. Well, T.J. was looking in front. He didn't actually know. And you can tell when Junior asked you something, and he can tell when you don't really know,

even though you give him an answer. And that's what that was. And he's like, you're looking, you're watching. Who was it? But I guess it was the three. The three was behind you? He's like, was it the three or was it not the three? because I got a bird finger here that I wanted to throw.

You know, and so here it is. Junior's flying birds at people that he wasn't really sure who it belonged to. He was really mad about that. He goes, am I the only one mad about this? This is him recapping the whole incident in the car going to the airport. But he's like, I was just thinking to myself, am I the only one that wants to fight about this? And the answer was, yeah, I think so, because none of us really thought it was a big deal. Well, he's fired up about it.

That's always good. All right, who's next? David, no beers. I'm very disappointed with your performance at Loudoun. You're farther behind than when you started. That means that you're digging a hole. Get out of it if you want to win. Well, we qualified better and we finished better than we did at Loudoun.

Did we not? Yeah, no, we did, though. We finished 10th, and this time we finished 9th. Is he talking about points? The man had a loose wheel. I don't know what he's talking about. I don't really know how to give that guy any credibility because he's not making any sense. Maybe he needs to drink beer.

Maybe he's talking about overall speed, which Junior addressed in his audio. Maybe it appears that why are we finishing not, why are we not finishing the top five? Maybe that's it. Is that right? Is that a good assumption, do you think? And Junior addressed that in his audience, so I'll just let him speak for himself. I mean, Junior seems absolutely pleased. with the speed.

Obviously, the incident that happened this past weekend was not a speed thing or a handling thing or a mechanical thing. It was an error. And by the way, you know, the first person to come meet with Dale after that was our tire changer. So, and they talked about it, and junior was absolutely cool with it. I think we should play the next one. Wow. I got to tell you, after that lug nut debacle, I was ready to go out in my yard and hang myself. But this team shows more than any other team in its ability to overcome obstacles

and to truly show what it means to be a championship caliber team. Thank you for this great finish under the most terrible circumstances. Thank you, Dale Jr. Thank you, Steve Lutart, and thank you 88 Bunch for pulling together and pulling out one of the best races I have ever seen you run. Go 88! Dale yeah. Yeah.

I mean, that's good stuff right there. Good fired up. Did you notice that Steve, actually, he said what the goal was. As soon as we fell a lap down, he said to Dale, here's what we're trying to do. We're trying to get back into the top 15. That's our goal. Let's not get crazy here. Let's just try to see what we're going to do to get back to our goal of top 15.

We did six spots better. Yeah. When you have something like that happened, digging out of it is a big part. And, man, I'm so impressed with the way that they ran those last 200 laps. almost. Top 15s don't win you a championship. They do get you to the next round. Yeah.

They do give you a chance at Dover to go into the next round as opposed to a Denny Hamlin right now. He's got a lot more to worry about this week. I'm not saying we got a gimmie. It's not a slam dunk, but I'm saying you'd rather be 22 or 26, 28. Well, however many points it is that we have a cushion. You'd rather have that than some of these other guys. Let's see what's next.

Q the bleepometer. That was the best race ever. Dale Jr. and Team 88. F***ing awesome. I cannot believe what we did in those restarts, Jr., OMG. And this is for Junior, because, number one, we started this chase plus 9.

We came into today plus 13. We left today plus 28. Can you fucking believe it? We are so awesome. and Steve, you're cheerleading through the whole thing. You knew we had time. You got us back in it. And this is for Dale Jr.

because he has his new interest in ears inside the hat. Ears inside the hat. Ears inside the hat. Looking like a fool with your ears inside the hat. Many, many beers. I need oxygen. I can't breathe. But Dale, yeah.

That's awesome. Winter. For the win. FTW. Well done. Amanda, that required a lot of effort out of you, didn't. Yes, it did. You stay up all night trying to censor that one?

Have you ever had a call that had that many sensors but it not be a mad one? That's a good point. I haven't even thought about that. That was a happy call. Yeah. With a lot of sensors. Happy F-bombs. I know.

And for the record, I'm an ear-tucker. Are you? But it's only because my ears stick out if I'm wearing a hat and it looks worse if I don't tuck them in. Do you have? Do you have big ears? Yes. I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I never notice this about you. Do you know what he's talking about, though, Taylor? Yes. That Cole Custer won the truck race. Yes. We were watching it, and he got out and had his ears tucked inside his hat, and Jr. tweeted, ears tucked inside your hat? Question mark.

All right, let's go to the next one. You tell me, how in the hell after lap 119, anybody on that team? from Dale Jr. right down to the water boy can get anything done or documented because they reached down and grabbed a pair of Coyunis. And all I got to say is keep it up, boys. Don't squeeze them things too hard and blow up. But when need be, get her done. I don't know about all that.

Coyunis. Coyunis. Hey, aren't that that animal? Oh, no, that's a coyote. That's a coyote. Grab those coyotes, Taylor. Have the coyote or maybe some cahones. You grow down and grab that coyote.

Don't squeeze them too hard, though. Amanda, I would love to see your reaction when you first hear these things. What's next? Hey, guys, just finished watching the Restart 300, which was nuts, because with as many cautions I got, there was a period that I've never wanted more to be in New Hampshire with a T-shirt can and full of debris. But, damn, what a job by Dale. Earnhardt on those restarts. So I got to tell you, here in TJ say, P.8, if you let Gordon go,

make me sick. An Earnhardt does not let Gordon go. Now, finishing night, that works for me. We ain't going to be no two-pump chumps like Penske, or in this for the long haul. And all those doomsayers out there, let me ask you, would you rather beat Danny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Kurt Bush, or Eric Elmerola? I seriously doubt it. Now, I'm feeling great about moving on to the next round. say what, I'll see y'all in Dover where I'm going to be cheering my Earnhard-loving ass off. Dale yeah. I don't know how many beers I've had, but I'm sure my recycle bin looks awfully similar to the cup garage right now. Well, some of the comments are, wow, fascinating this week and what he said about the Penske guys.

But, yeah, hey, fired up, and that's good. You need to be fired up for Dover, for sure. Pinsky, man. They're on a different planet right now. They are for real. They're going to be hard to beat. They are going to be very hard. Let's just call it like we see it.

They're going to be hard to beat. You know what? I tweeted, let me hold on. I tweeted during the race, I said, Brad Kozlowski wrecking and then being in fourth place, 20 laps later is the most Brad thing ever. And people are like, why are you being happy about Brad? Why, you be happy about your boss?

and I said, well, that's not being happy about anybody. I was just saying that's the most bad thing ever. He was leading after it. Yes, 20 laps. It's the most bad thing ever. That is just calling it like I see it. That team has got it. All right, one more.

You know, there may have been a time in my reaction theater history that I may have yelled and I probably cussed about a P9 finish. But I'll tell you this right now. That doesn't matter in this case. Being consistent, overcoming problems, and never giving up will win the 88 a championship. Dale Jr., you didn't let it affect you. Steve was hard, you kept the positive mental attitude. The boys did good.

You guys overcame and came back to ninth. You guys keep fighting. You guys don't give up, and we will be in homestead with a championship. Let's go. Dale, yeah, buddy, one step at a time. It's important to remember. It's important. It's a marathon, but it's a sprint if it can be such.

Like Junior said, you know, you can't get a top 10 if you got a loose wheel and you hit the wall. So you take these lumps, you take these pieces of adversity, and you don't let it just completely kill your chase. That's what we've done. I don't know why Timmy B makes me think of what happened on Saturday night, but I met Jim Ross on Saturday night, the legendary wrestling announcer. Oh, yeah. Those guys are similar, I would say. Yeah, and it just made me think of him. But at the Oklahoma, West Virginia game, and I'm not kidding, this is a God's Honest Truth.

He has a very popular podcast, and I've noticed that he does very well with his podcast. Yeah. But I said something to him. I said, hey, man, Taylor, and he goes, oh, yeah, yeah, no, you do the podcast with Dale Jr. And I said, how do you know that? And he said, you guys are killing it this year. I look at all the rankings. You guys are killing it with your podcast.

this year. Swear to you said that. Had a picture made with him also on Saturday night, but really good guy and says that he's been listening to the podcast this year. So I don't know what made me think, I guess because Tim was yelling and screaming, but my man, JR, wanted to give a shout out for Junior. I will even say go Sooners for that. How about that? Boomer, yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. Boomer Sooners. It was really cool. I almost wanted to put you on the phone when he said that he listened to the podcast. I probably could have used the call. Reaction theater is open 24-7. All you have to do is call toll-free, like Mike says, like it's 1983,

1-855-740-1902, and leave us your voicemail message. We'll play the best each week right here on Dirty Mo Radio. Throw me a white flag. White flag right there, white flag. Well, Taylor, this is going to be a short white flag because I've got a lot to do and a short time to do it. But that said, I still want to mention our new sponsor, John Deere Tractors, particularly John Deere's, versatile 6M-Series,

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Anyways, thank you, John Deere, for all your support. We'll be visiting you soon. Dale Jr. has a busy week. Goody's production today. Diet Mountain Dew, Due, Produce. and tomorrow National Guard appearance at a high school Thursday in Delaware. By the way, I've got to tell you all a quick story. We went to Essex High School in Vermont this past weekend and get this.

Are you ready for this? We met a student that already owns his own company. Like a high school student has his own company. He makes walking sticks, which sort of looks like Moses' staff. You might have seen me. Was that TJ? Was that what TJ was holding? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I just thought it was fascinating. A kid, like he's like a sophomore. Taylor. That's more successful than all of us. That's a kid. He knows what he wants to do. That's for sure. So anyways, I can tell Taylor's not very impressed.

No, I am very impressed. I'm very impressed with anybody can start their own business that early. Either that or Taylor's walking through his mind where he went wrong. Or I'm thinking about how I want to give a shout out to Keough a resort right now. Anyways, after we leave the high school, then we'll proceed over to Dover National Speedway.

That's where we're going to get cracking on this chase. The NASCAR Sprint Cup series is at Dover International Speedway Friday through Sunday. It's the final race of the Challenger round. It'll start at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Hopefully we make the contender round, which will be Kansas, Charlotte, and Talladega. So we're crossing our fingers for that. And it's just chaos, Taylor, so that's your white flag. And this podcast has been sponsored by Omaha Steaks.

My address is, no, I'm kidding. Yeah. You're trying to get dinner out of this podcast? What are you trying to do? If you're going to get a bunch of the shoutouts in here, that was very funny, though. That's two straight weeks for you. I'm excited to see who's sponsoring the white flag next week. Crystal Burger.

I can confirm that man loves Crystal Burger for sure. Man, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Kentucky, you about put a lot of money into Crystal Burger place. All right, next week, Monster Mile. That's it, man. Can't wait to recap that. Insanity. Insanity. Look forward to the next round.

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