also in my opinion the beginning of the end of his career (just my opinion as a junior fan) when he wrecked and finished 43rd there in Texas. i felt something off the rest of the year despite sweeping pocono, and a few other wins there and 2015 wins.
@@MattSkitzYT yeah he got a concussion but didn't tell anyone about it. That happened three more time's before he decided to tell someone. That's Raceing.
sweet vid. Dale Jr. always been one of my all time faves beside his dad. I rember watching J.r race lates down here at the myrtle beach speedway years ago
Great video! Thanks to Dale Jr. for an amazing career. As a member of JR Nation since 2004, I'll miss seeing Junior on the track but look forward to hearing from him on NBC Sports next year. #Appreci88ion
Dale Jr. really had a impressive nascar career. Dale Jr. would have won a cup by now if his dad was still alive. That doesn't matter, 2017 just gotta be the season (he has a year's rest for crying out loud). #JRNation
I remember that statement and when I was watching dale in the victory circle I was saying to myself your getting a little too carried away Dale and then then I heard that aint shit.Referring his wins being 5 (shit) and his Dads being like 10 or more later he would go on to say he was responsible for the 5 second delay in NASCAR broadcasting.Thanks for keeping it real Jr.
shawn bishop no he would of a championship if a it wasn’t for the chase b he dint cruse on live tv in 04 c he would of concentrated on his racing instead of partying
My dad back in 97-98 wanted to start a guys family weekend, with me, my brother, and my brother n law. Since we lived in Houston, Texas, our first weekend trip was to the NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway, one of the Burton brothers won. We had so much fun. We slowly ended up averaging 10 trips, and 20+ races year...... I had the most fun in my teen years because of it. My brother n law was a huge Mark Martin fan, and following my dad, he was a big Dale Sr fan, I became a fan of both Dale Sr, and Dale Jr, specially since I was at his first cup win. I know he’s married, with a baby girl, and has had some concussions problems, but damn I wish he’d come back!! Either drive for his good buddy Tony Stewart, or the team i would have preferred him to go to after leaving DEI, in RCR! Heck I’d probably would double the races I go to, even if he choose a car from his on stable at JR MOTORSPORTS, and just run xfinity series! I know it’s highly unlikely, but I can dream lol i know he misses it! I can say i was lucky enough to be at all 3 Daytona 500’s, that Sr won in 98, and Jr in 2004, and again in 2014. I really thought he was going to win his last Daytona 500, until he got wrecked out, in 2017. Uhh that one still hurts.
No matter what the sponsor title is for the series it's the same series no matter what you name it. So for the people complaining that the earlier wins were Busch not Xfinity. Yes during that time it was sponsored by Busch. Now it's Xfinity so that's what you call it. Same with the cup series. No matter what you name it, it's the same series whether you have Winston, Nextel, Sprint, or monster...it's the same thing
No Xfinity in the 90s; no Nextel, sprint or Monster either. Still have my AC Delco hat from back then in pristine shape. I was at all the Richmond night races.
Being a Kyle Busch fan, i would probably be the first to admit that Jr would have been the one to chase Mark's record at 49 wins instead. The man had 7-6 wins in the first two busch series seasons, i don't remember how many others have done that but still, since he joined Cup full time he either hasn't raced that much in lower series after or he just focused on riding around in those races.
88 car wins Dale Jr and the 3 car the number of his father Dale sr the intimidator finishes 2nd wow what a coincidence and that was for his last xfinity series win.
I’m just going to say this I’m a Gordon fan but he could drive when dale Earnhardt passed a part of jr left. If dale never had passed I think jrs cup career would have been a little different jr probably would have won some championships and would have never left dei. But still jr had a great career
I. Don't. Care that. Dale. Jr. Never. Won. Championship. In. The. Big. Series he. Won. Two. Busch. Series. Championships when. It. Was. Called. The. Busch series.
@@samuelstahl5828may be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Jr’s “fall off” happened years after his fathers death and most of the time it was either injury or bad luck that caused him to go on winless streaks
Of all inactive NASCAR tracks I miss the most, it's Milwaukee. So flat. I love it. Seems like there was always a friendly rivalry with Junior and Kenseth. Kudos to him as well for giving us some great racing over the years.
i really miss those short tracks they use to run like IRP, or Gateway if you want to count that as a short track, and then i was shocked to see South Boston i think it was on there that was really great, so bloody boring now at these mile and a half tracks now.
Couple years late but yes you're correct. I saw that just now and I had to re read the video description thinking I was on a Sr highlight. I also didn't know he was in the three car for so many races as I got into Jrs career around 2000 2001.
Wins number 8,9,10 were 3 wins in a row from June 5th thru June 27th of 1999 and he attributed practicing on NASCAR Racing 1999 for the help in getting the win at Watkins Glen.
He's not the only one who get some practice from videogames. Denny Hamlin used NASCAR Racing 2003 Season to get ready for one Pocono race in 2006. And he swept both races at Pocono.
And Rick Hendrick let go Kyle Busch to put jr in a Hendricks motorsports car, kinda like when the cubs traded lou brock to the cardnals huh? Over rated and he only got to the cup series because his daddy!
Danny Dunn wow you're stupid dale jr had a hall of fame career won two Daytona 500s and won more than 90 percent of the drivers in NASCAR history that is in no way overrated why dont u get a brain
Still he retired with an empty slot in his trophy case, i think if he could have won the battle for control of dei he would have filled that cup championship slot
Junior was a better driver then Busch. Busch was tough to sponsor at that time. Junior was the only driver able to keep up with Johnson before the move. Junior just made the crew chiefs job super hard during that time so the wins dont reflect. The laps led before and right after the move show it was the right call. Just needed a crew chief like Steve sooner to get that cup. Still a good career nothing to be ashamed of. Kahne didnt win many races at Hendrick either. When Junior and Truex raced on the same team Truex wasn't even close now hes dominating Busch.
Yeah win #14 at 12:32 was a good one first time a 3 car had been back at Daytona since Dale Sr passed away, also win #18 at 15:28 was a very impressive win leading every lap at Daytona something that's unheard of
I tell you Whhat, I telll you whhhat, I miss being a kid in those years.. I always thought I was going to be stuck in that era. Today’s nascar ain’t foreign to me but it sure is weird. June bug is quite the wheel man if you love or hate him.
I wanna know what you people think; Did Dale Jr deserve to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame? Here's my take His career numbers in the Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity series are Hall of Fame but to me his Cup career was not a Hall of Fame career. He never won a championship and look at his time at Hendrick Motorsports and how many seasons he went winless.
Let’s be honest here, when Junior was in the number three wrangler car on the last lap Logan’s definitely had a run on him but made a career decision not to pass him because he would of with that run he had on him 😂
Around '98 and '99 I was more of a fan of the NASCAR Busch Series than Cup all because of Dale Earnhardt, Jr and Matt Kenseth putting on a show week in and week out! This is also around the time I started getting into Formula One racing. Jr became my favorite driver during this time period. Id get excited for the Busch race and rarely paid any attention to the Cup races on Sundays.
It's still Xfinity no matter how you look at it. It's just a title sponsor for the series. No matter what you name it, it's still the same series. Winston was the same as monster.. different name for the title but same series
is that a clause in the contract to say xyz series when a new sponsor buys in and take cfredit for past series when they didnt even exist NASCAR should really seprate sometimes I hear reports of x driver winning so many xyz races whenin fact that driver only won wiston cup or bgn, and i get confused of who they taliking about
