Dale Jr talks about Mom, Dad and racing
Dale Earnhardt Jr talks about his life growing up and how he got his start in racing
Every now and then someone will say to me that the only reason Dale Jr is racing is because his last name is Earnhardt. That he had his racing career and everything handed to him.
I don’t believe that for one second. Watch this video and you’ll understand, and please share it with anyone else who might need to see it.
“When the house burned down we didn’t have nothing,” said Dale Jr
That was when Junior and his sister Kelley went to live with their father and Teresa. “The last thing she wanted was 2 instant kids,” Junior said of his stepmother.
Earnhardt had to learn on his own how to race and live on no money.
“I never saw the silver spoon. Dale Earnhardt Jr had to work for what he got,“ said Don Hawk, former president of DEI.
Dale Earnhardt Jr Joke
A Dale Earnhardt Jr Joke
“If your Son’s name is Dale Jr — and your name is not Dale — you might be a redneck.” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
Jimmie Johnson Greatest All Time
Is Jimmie Johnson the Greatest of All Time?
Jimmie’s fans apparently think he is the greatest. His fan base is growing daily. Kyle Busch fans are tossing their No. 18 hats in the trash and buying No. 48 hats. Jeff Gordon fans are donating their No. 24 t-shirts to the Salvation Army and buying Jimmie Johnson shirts.
One Dale Earnhardt Jr fan even had her tattoo redesigned from No. 88 to No. 48. I never thought I would see the day when a Junior fan would switch to Johnson.
“Over the last couple years my fan base has grown leaps and bounds,” said the 4 time Champion in a matter of fact way.
“And then within our sport, I’m racing with some of the great, and there is different reasons why guys are popular. Junior’s success and Junior’s popularity is there for a lot of different reasons. One way people measure things is based on souvenir sales, and our souvenir sales is one of the few that has been showing an increase.”
“I’m very proud of the fan base that I have. It’s a very large fan base, and it’s growing rapidly.”
Jimmie Johnson has a record that no one in the 61 year history of NASCAR can match – 4 straight championships.
Sure, Richard Petty has more, but not 4 in a row.
Dale Earnhardt has 7 to match Petty, but not 4 straight.
Jeff Gordon has 4 – but not in 4 consecutive years.
Johnson does not have the most wins. But at 47 career victories he is ranked 11th on the NASCAR All Time Win List. And Jimmie Johnson is nowhere near retirement. He still has plenty of winning left to do.
So far in his career Johnson has averaged 5.8 wins per year. At that rate he will pass David Pearson’s record of 105 wins by the time he is 44 years old. Pearson raced until he was 51 and ranks No. 2 on the All Time Win List.
Johnson will never pass Richard Petty for the top spot at 200. But you have to consider that Petty would run as many as 61 races per year. Johnson only gets 36.
So is Jimmie the Johnson the Greatest of All Time? If not Johnson, who?
Photo Courtesy Hendrick Motorsports
Jimmie Johnson as Good as Dale Earnhardt?
Dale Jr Ranks Jimmie Johnson Alongside His Father
Dale Earnhardt Jr said that Jimmie Johnson – knocking on the door of a 4th NASASR Championship – was just as good as Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty and David Pearson.
“You definitely have to put him there in with my father, Richard and David Pearson, and all them guys,” Dale Earnhardt Jr said.
Do you agree with Junior? Does Jimmie Johnson belong in the same class as Dale Earnhardt?
Photo Courtesy Hendrick Motorsports
Dale Earnhardt’s First RCR Win
Dale Earnhardt’s First Win in the No. 3
Dale Earnhardt was happy to run 2nd in the Talladega 500 – at least up until turn 3 on the White Flag Lap.
Earnhardt’s right foot must have been through the floorboard on that final lap, because he passed Terry Labonte like he was standing still. Dale had the pedal to the metal.
Watch Dale Earnhardt win his first race for Richard Childress. Dale drove the No. 3 to Victory lane for the first time in the 1984 Talladega 500.
Talladega was not one of Earnhardt’s best race tracks. He only won there 10 times in 44 starts.
Earnhardt had 23 top 5 finishes and 3 poles at the 2.66 mile Alabama track.
Dale Earnhardt Jr’s 1969 Camaro
Dale Jr’s ‘69 Chevy Camaro
Here’s the latest edition to Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Camaro collection. It’s a 1969 built by Detroit Speed and Engineering. Junior also has a 1972 Camaro built by Detroit Speed.
Biggest NASCAR Mistake
Who Made The Biggest Mistake at Texas?
When Jimmie Johnson crashed early in the race you would have thought Dale Earnhardt Jr took the lead on the last lap at Talladega. The crowd went wild.
Sunday’s Dickie’s 500 at Texas Motor Speedway was a battle to see who could make the biggest mistake. Jimmie Johnson threw away a huge chunk of his championship lead. Kyle Busch threw away the race lead. Dale Earnhardt Jr threw away a good finish.
Kyle Busch out of gas.
Kyle Busch beat a fast path out of Texas Motor Speedway after being forced to the pits with an empty fuel cell while he was leading with just 3 laps to go. Why didn’t Kyle at least explain what happened?
Kyle’s new crew chief, Dave Rogers, blew it big time by not bringing Kyle to pit road for gas sooner.
Kurt Busch knew Kyle was going to run out of gas with 3 laps to go. So why didn’t Kyle’s new crew chief know it? Kurt was told by his crew chief Pat Tryson that he didn’t have to race Kyle – that Kyle was short on gas. I guess Kyle’s team should have been listening
Dale Earnhardt Jr’s crew chief didn’t do much better.
Dale Earnhardt Jr hit pit road out of gas with just 7 laps to go. The pit crew dumped in a few gallons of gas and let Junior go. He only made it a few yards out of his pit stall before his car stalled because it could not pick up fuel.
Lance McGrew should have never let Junior leave his pit until he had fuel pressure. Junior was completely out of gas when he hit pit road.
McGrew could learn a thing or two from his teammate on the No. 24 team. Last week when Jeff Gordon ran out of gas at Talladega crew chief Steve LeTarte held Gordon in the pits until the car had fuel pressure. Had McGrew done the same thing Earnhardt would have had a chance to finish in the top 10 – instead of 25th.
Jimmie Johnson in the wall.
Don’t engrave Jimmie Johnson’s name on the Sprint Cup just yet. Johnson lost 111 points after crashing on the 2nd lap. The No. 48 team still holds a 73 point lead in the Sprint Cup standings. But it is not an unbeatable lead.
So what did you think about the race?
Is Talladega Still Exciting?
Is Talladega Still Exciting?
Talladega is usually my favorite race track – but Sunday’s Amp Energy 500 was a long stretch of boredom interrupted occasionally by sheer terror.
The track officials at Talladega went as far as to get an Indian medicine man to remove any curses on the speedway on Wednesday before the race. How did that work? Not so good. I hope they can get their money back.
NASCAR’s new smaller restrictor plate combined with a last minute rule against bump drafting left drivers unable or unwilling to race. For most of 
the day they looked like Sunday drivers on I-20 rather than professional race car drivers at what should be the world’s fastest speedway.
Even Mark Martin said this was not a race. “Its not racing it’s just a different word and I don’t have a word for it,” said Martin.
Tony Stewart asked for someone on the team to tell him something – anything – on the radio to keep him entertained.
Kevin Harvick asked if his car had cruise control that would make his job a little easier. And that was while he was leading.
Ryan Newman was not happy with the way the race was run – even after flipping his car and having to be cut from the wreckage. “I wish NASCAR would do something. It was a boring race for the fans,” said Newman.
“We’re supposed to be racing all day long and I believe we’ve lost a little bit of that luster.”
The crowd had a few reasons to cheer today. When Ryan Newman was cut from his badly wrecked race car and climbed out a huge roar erupted. The same thing happened every time Dale Earnhardt Jr took the lead.
But what kind of race is it when your championship leader rides around at the back of the field all day? When race cars look like they are in a parade – not a race?
Did you think the Talladega race was exciting?
