Dale Jr. Download: Rick Mast - "I Was Dying" 

Same here. I've always enjoyed hearing behind the scenes stories in lots of sports, but I think these that Dale Jr does are my favorite.

They're the best. Most underated channel on RU-vid. The best free entertainment. #HMS

I'm not even American and I don't see many Nascar races live, but I could listen to these guys all day long. I did happen to catch just about the last 3/4 of this year's Daytona 500 and then saw an interview with Jr about the crash at the end that decided the race. It was SO refreshing to hear him talk so rationally and calmly about a simple racing incident while all the fans outside were baying for the "other driver's" blood.

@@stadleroux you've got to watch a short track ran at night. That's Nascar all summed up

@@bryancurtislyles12 thanks, I think I may have seen parts of one or two, but yes, I should probably catch one from start to finish. Does Martinsville have a night race? I used to spend hours every night in front of my PC with Sierra's Nascar Racing 2003 and earlier back in the day, but I really sucked anyway, so I never got around to running a full season... 😕😊 Still, for me who don't get a lot of exposure to the sport, having played the game makes a really big difference to my experience. In the very early days of me playing it there were also several warehouse bookstores here who used to import old foreign magazines in bulk and sell them cheap, so I'd buy some that focused on Nascar and read about past races, driver profiles, standings, etc. Anything to try and put some flesh and personality on the AI drivers!

Morons are everywhere

The attention-seeking thumb suckers, that's who.

there the ones that read with pictures ,,,, Rick purdy scarry looking!lololol

Must be carbon monoxide poisoning causing them to miss the like button.

@@catmanrescue1 Did you mean they're - 'they are'?

I always liked Rick, much respect!

Topanga chronic this is 100% spot on. The sport needs another BP.

@@natedog24639 I got some Buddy Baker vibes there as well. I surely do miss BP though.

U so right.jeffs good but a bit boring but with rick it would be verry entertaining with knowledge

#rickinthebooth

I Totally agree it would be a perfect fit in the booth

HE WAS THE POLE WINNER FOR THE IS'T INDY CUP RACE !!!

@@johnpyle702 That's cool. I know for a fact I watched that race LIVE on TV back then, because it was such a big deal: NASCAR cup cars racing at Indy!!! I also recall how everyone was really surprised at the speeds the cup cars were running & how well they handled those flat turns.......but I couldn't remember who won the pole. Thank you!

@@johnpyle702 That was huge !! Remember that day well...

They are great. Check out the scene vault podcast as well. They go into a lot of detail too about specific seasons.

Go look at the interview with Chad Knaus & Ray Evernham talking about working in the 24 team, they talk about how Jeff's voice would change throughout the race because of the monoxide he was breathing.

#HMS

Read rumors that Jeff may have taken steroids. Dunno

@@williambowen1771 Anabolic steroids have no positive effect on racers. There's nothing in the skill of driving where strength will benefit you. Now, on PEDs, something like EPO will help your cardio which is a huge boost for these long races.

I am the same age as Mast but he looks 10 years older and I have had multiple brain tumor surgeries.

I love seeing the older drivers like Rick, the labontes, Kenny Schrader, the Wallace's red farmer, Spencer, DW, the king ect the stories that are told omg it is so cool

* you're. This is the most underated channel on RU-vid. #HMS

Dosent he run sprint cars now?

no, kasey had a disorder with the water in his body that made him severely dehydrated after long races, its why he can run sprint car races because theyre shorter

Dick Trickle is underrated

Best & most successful short track driver in history. I never knew that either, up until about a year ago.

Dick Trickle was a great snowmobile racer too!

@@mattw6585 Just like Geoffrey Bodine

Far as I can see, all of these interviews are awesome. Best channel on RU-vid.

A lot of it depends on your surroundings and the way you work on stuff. Old race guys used to spray lacquer indoors with no respirators, tune carburetors with leaded fuel indoors for hours on end and then just hang out in it. It depends on your environment and length of exposure like most anything else.

I came into the comment section to say this same thing after I heard him say that. I would hope he said that from the interpretation made by many people that said it at the time. We both know dales wreck was insane hard and from the banks we Daytona as steep they sling shot his car after getting loose going up the banks then Kenny schraders car projected his car even more head on

This legendary man drove a sponsorless car to a 6th place finish in his first ever Daytona 500 in 1989

@@wolverine9632 love it.... Grit=Passion... Sometimes one just finds a way.

They call asbestos exposure “Mesothelioma”... you’ve seen the tv commercials. It’s no joke, it’s real, and have learned even a third of all Navy shipmen have succumbed to as much. Those in the heating/ac business, auto mechanics, the changing of old clutches and brakes.

@NASTY CANASTA you’d be surprised how much asbestos is still used the US. For solid statistics visit curemeso.org Make a contribution even. Many hospitals aren’t even equipped or sophisticated enough to diagnose Meso. Mayo, John Hopkins and a few others are at the level to do so... many hospitals simply call the diagnosis cancer, and that’s it, unless the family insist on a deeper diagnosis, then the study is sent to the likes of Mayo to learn its more that “just cancer”.

How about auto parts places, I turned thousands of drum and disc's dust flying off of them, then we had to bag up drum brake cores to be sent back for relining. You would cough up black stuff for 3 days after that.

Oscar jr Jimenez Hut is Bobby Allisons son in law! Check it out (no joke)..

I bet more than you want to think did as well. I wonder if both Dales suffered from it.

alwaysopen Perhaps this was the cause of Dale Sr. losing consciousness behind the wheel.

I had a kar kare Cale Yarborough Car that was a whiskey decanter like the one he has setting on that desk it's bigger than the model cars and I don't know what happened to it and I had a stp Red Indy car decanter I think Mario andrettie drove it and I have lost it along the way I actually had four or five of those whiskey or bourbon decanters made like race cars and I only have one left they used to sell them in the liquor stores I'll never forget the kar kare Chevelle Red and white# 11 before Yarborough got Holly Farms for a sponsor I well everytime I see that one on dale's desk I think damn I had one of those when I was a kid

@@burnychaplin4601 Exactly.. I made my Dad so mad at me. I'm thinking I was around 8or9 169to present. So 77or78? He bought me 1 car of Dale E. & 1 of Daryl W. I loved them. But after watching a few races I wanted a wrecked car. I smashed them up and made them look like a crash.. And didn't realize I couldn't fix 'em. He said, I'll never buy you another one. And he never did either. haha.

After the races.

He was the first one to run a hose bringing outside air into his helmet

Quite possible. In general, it has to do with so many people being cooped up in an enclosed space for so long in the middle of regular flu season.