Andy Petree: Butting Heads with Dale Earnhardt 

And I remember TV mentioning your name once in 99. Related to Harry Hyde? (correct?)

@@joshuafarmer3467 Harry's side of the Hyde clan settled in Kentucky, my side settled in Northern New York.

@@alanhyde1261 I worked at Daytona, Darlington, and Talladega 1996-2006 as part of the security/safety teams. Dale Sr had a huge integrity level and cheating was never part of the program with him. He always personally inspected every race car that he ever drove, anything not right got corrected or he'd refuse to drive it. 1998 Daytona #3 car, Dale Sr insisted that the car wasn't right on Saturday morning. By Sunday's race, he was satisfied. He would later state that race car was the best race car that he ever drove. Dale Sr had the abilities to drive a crappy race car and still do well with it. One Saturday morning, he and Neil Bonnet were out on the Daytona track, by themselves, for an IROC practice. It was foggy/cloudy but they did it anyway. Dale Sr saw how the foggy air reacted when close to Neil's car in different situations. That day, Dale Sr learned how to use airflow as an advantage.

Man! That’s awesome enjoy your retirement!

Are there any OTHER racing shows/pod casts on the air?! Nothing that comes close to this! Dale Jr is amazing at this!

Ive always said, we got jipped out of having Dale Sr around in his post race career. Could you imagine Dale Sr in the Booth, or with a show, ..or even ON Dale Jrs podcast?! Oh, the stories we would hear! We got jipped!

@@kidwave1 We got "gipped" but he died doing what he ALWAYS wanted to do. Live up to Ralph and his own ambition. I sure wished he were here. He'd be 68 this year and I imagine he would have drove well into his 50s. But from an inside source, he wanted to retired at 55. He was the king of car control (take the "pass in the grass" out because he passed no one). I was never a Sr fan until I met him in 1999 at his dealership in Kannapolis. He had 500 people or more in line and spent 10 minutes talking to me about Kevin Harvick and Mike Skinner. I wished I would have had a god-awful cellphone to record it. He autographed a wooden clock of him and Davey Allison crouching on the bricks (Indy) in 1993 for a tire test. His last win....F****** epic. But of course, my man, now, is Harvick, who Sr chose to be his teammate in 2002. And in 2007 Harvick CLOSED the deal at the Daytona 500. I hated to see Martin lose but as a Harvick fan for 24 years, it was bliss. I can only imagine what Sr would tell Jr on the podcast...but we have stories and history. He would have won at least 30 more races and an 8th. I think Jimmie Johnson retired for that sole purpose and went to Indy (though no wins in 3 years because of rule changes). Kevin H winning in the third race of hi...s career at the third race after Sr died is legendary. You cannot script NASCAR. You cannot script a 3400 lb car. Stone Cold can script something or any of the AFW guys, but not racing. They WON and WON off of skill determination and courage. I hope that Harvick runs a white and orange numbered paint scheme again. And ironically, as I write for a few racing websites, I see the #4...that Ernie I vacated for the #28. Do any of you know that he specifically wanted to drive the car because he killed Davey's championship in 92'? So ironically, my man is in the #4 and Sr picked well. Allgaier is awesome and should have a CUP ride. Hornaday was great, and Jeff Green in 2000. Let us always CELEBRATE and not denigrate our love--racing. Sr is smiling at Jr now for what he does.

😂 Lol!!!

That amazes that Dale wanted a car that was tight. I figured he would want a loose car because you can make more speed with a loose car. Unless he wanted long run speed.

@@ethanweeter2732 Dale was talking about how much effort he was putting into the wheel to get the car to turn.

@@ethanweeter2732 you sure done want to be lose at rockingham... the rock was tough... you had to conserve tires for long runs, or you would just smoke them, so which each lap is stock car at the The Rock would get looser and looser LOL turn those tires into liquid rubber. That was Rockingham

@@joeyjohnson4826 I know man. Watched a race or two there on TV. Hard to compare to seeing it live though. The Rock was also a hard track to drive without the tire wear. Why do many good drivers won there.

Sandi, it's Andy Petree. No offense meant.

Joshua Farmer... ...........and I misspelled it twice!! My apologies to Andy Petree. S

@@sandiwalker761 lol it's all good. Kyle Busch..98 Busch, Nationwide and Xfinity wins...wow.

Yes! Go listen to the full interview. He talks about leaving and if he regretted it.

Absolutely and Jr let’s people talk instead of interrupting 👏🏻

I absolutely the Dale jr download it’s awesome

I agree so much brother. I’m not much in to podcasts but this is the first one that I watch consistently. I love this Earnhardt family and all of the friends that are associated

Yes it is!

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That's for sure!😁👍

I'm too young to have remembered much of him but I love these stories about him just the same. They're pure gold.

That’s how we bond right here

Ive always said, we got jipped out of having Dale Sr around in his post race career. Could you imagine Dale Sr in the Booth, or with a show, ..or even ON Dale Jrs podcast?! Oh, the stories we would hear! We got jipped!

@@kidwave1 you are so right ! The things he could lay insight to and dish his side of the story ! A half hour on the pass in the Grass !

Exactly and so much more !

Imagine if HE was alive to tell a few! Ive always said, we got jipped out of having Dale Sr around in his post race career.

interesting.....

Actually thank you Mike Davis for the vision of this year's ago

He is that’s why he had these guys on the podcast. We’ve all heard jr say they were just starting to get close. Man that would be tough. I’ve fought for dads attention forever. Still don’t get it. Had to just let it go and make my best effort to stay in contact call anc go see him. All I can do.

There are probably enough stories out to do that. You watch enough of these, you can see Dale Jr's eyes light up when he learns something new, something he didn't know.