"Hey man, c'mon". That's not Dale Earnhardt talkin to Dale Jr., that's a Daddy talkin to his little boy who just did something Daddy had been doin for awhile
If Sr. Never dies Jr wins 50-60 races 2-3 cups. You can’t tell me he wasn’t kicking all sorts of ass early on. He never got over his fathers death and you can tell by the Hendrick years he was a depressed man. Talent don’t mean squat when your mind ain’t right.
@@_lucas_1k_ I have always thought he had a great chance to get number 8 that year. He was almost a reborn driver the year before. Was such a fun time to watch the races with my family back then.
DEI would've finished 1-2-3 at Daytona like Ford finishing 1-2-3 at Le Mans, Dale would've retired and gotten fully behind his son's career, Jr would've won 2-3 championships. Just one more fucking turn....
It was the team, when it changed so did the wins. When Letarte got on board, he turned the ship around. I believe Jr. would have gotten championship or two had Letartre not retired.
@da324 his best CC Was Tony Sr with Tony Jr as car chief he was more focused originally because Big E was overseeing the race Team operations all he had to do was drive. Life post 01 daytona 500 was drastically different and he admitted he only raced to be closer to DEsr
Great memory for Dale jr!! Can you imagine, if Dale's Daytona wreck hadn't happened... Dale and Childress were so pumped, going into the 2001 season, after finishing 2nd in points in 2000... His success as a car owner would have had him racing hard for that 8th championship! I think he could have done it!!
@@ethanweeter2732 I reckon it would have been in NASCAR as a driver, he would still have had that itch to compete. Mike Joy said in his last conversation with Snr after doing the 24 Hours with Dale Jnr he described it as the best week ever and wanted to go Le Mans have driven the C5 Corvette.
yup so sad never even got a chance 2 race alongside his dad, he was on pit road as a sub driver but Adam's engine blew before Kyle even got into his car.
This was the first race I ever went to. It really was something else seeing Senior's black number 3 and Jr's red number 8 on the track together back then. I doubt there will ever be a time where NASCAR can become as epic as it was during the 90s.
He may have been the intimidator on the track, but he was a proud papa in the winners circle. So sad he's gone. I have never watched another NASCAR race since the day he passed. The sport was not the same without him. RIP Dale. GOAT
i could watch sr move the guy out of the way all day long, he was a father in the moment first wanting to be the first to be there for his son, i was a HUGE nascar fan when sr was alive the day he died for me so did nascar it never was the same after that for me even being a jr fan
Let's build a new DEI let's build another race team come on Dale Jr what are you waiting for we need you in NASCAR please build a new DEI and start two teams
The witch screwed him out of a company, so unless he gets a big boost in money or has the company back from her somehow, he's stuck with Jr Motorsports
I think Dale did not know how to say I love you like some dads could. We know he lived his kids, but I think his pride or manliness made it hard for him to be an emotional loving dad like most fathers.
It's still bums me out jr only got 3 or 4 years to have the relationship he wanted with SR before it got taken from him. Glad he got these years tho, doesnt get better than that
I feel the same, I understand now getting older and having a dad like that growing up how things can change and Jr was finally was getting everything he dreamed of.
Yeah it sucks he never got to see him winning his first Daytona 500 and 10 years later winning it again! The success and popularity Jr had, Sr would’ve been so proud.
Back when Sr was still around, DEI was a top tier team that could win against Hendrick/Roush/JGR/Penske on any given day. Instead of letting Jr have 51% of a championship caliber team and she could be a silent partner and collect fat checks, she instead lets the most popular driver walk away and she's left with 100% of NOTHING. Great job Teresa...took only a few years to destroy what took Sr a lifetime to build. The Intimidator must be rolling in his grave.
It's because Dale Sr died that NASCAR went with the COT and Gen 6 cars for safety reasons. How many deaths have there been in Sprint Cup since the Gen 5 and Gen 6 cars? Answer ZERO! So NASCAR did something right. the Hans device was around when Sr died, it was used by some drivers not many but some. Used mandatory by IndyCar that year. Sr said he would never wear that thing, same thing he said about full faced helmets that it restricted his view.
HarryRacer18 deaths and Earnhardt are what made nascar popular. NASCAR lost both at the same time. NASCAR as a non-gladiatorial sport is uninteresting, the reason people watched was for the crashes and the fact that everyone out there was risking their lives to do what they loved. NASCAR people can deny it, weak-minded people can say I’m a sadist (where did I ever say the deaths were good? I only contend that they made the sport popular. It’s the same reason traffic backs up on the other side of the highway from a bad car crash. Rubbernecking and Earnhardt were the twin backbones of NASCAR and they lose both of them on that day in 2001. Dale Jr was able to captivate the nation for a while but as he began to suck and there were no more deaths the reasons to watch dwindled. Also the fact that nascar was played. After that, ESPN’s disastrous attempt to turn nascar into a mainstream sport plus the ugly-as-sin new cars were the final nails in the coffin. NASCAR has been a zombified sport like boxing for over a decade now
i think this weekend would be perfect to break the winless streak, where he got his first win in both series!!!! come on JR, you can do it damn it!!!!!
Exactly. Now look at this Earnhardt/Ganassi 2 car team. A couple of bum drivers that have won a handful of races, neither are serious chase contenders. Junior could have meshed up his JR Motorsports Nationwide teams into DEI and built it even bigger than DEI was in it's prime. Teresa flushing DEI down the toilet and this stupid Car of Tomorrow make me wanna puke. And they wonder why attendance is down?
Still is. Heck, there isn't a wall separating the track and pit road at MIS. He could have just as easily driver through the grass and onto pit road to go back to the garage. Then he would have been long gone by the time the cars got back to the start finish line.
So, you'd take away everyone's win under yellow. LOL. A win is a win. I didn't say that Jr's capabilities are as good as Gordon. I'm saying that just because you're with a great team doesn't always mean you are going to get the great results and even the best struggle like Gordon has these last 5yrs+. But to imply Kahne's a super stud with his 13 wins and no championships is BS. Now, 'nuff said.
I remember when he got his ride through daddy. I told all the Earnhardt fans/Gordon haters “ well now you can’t talk crap about Jeff, because it applies to Junior, too.
LMAO....at like 1:47 when Theresa hugs Jr just look at his face...kinda like "wtf"...then he still looks at her a few more times with the same look...lmao
We all should've gotten so many more of these moments. The Earnhardt's, NASCAR and the fans were robbed of so many special moments like this between father and son. Instead there were special moments that helped everyone mourn.
