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So much of nascar racing history that race fans took as "just the way it is" makes a helluva a lot more sense in retrospect after hearing these stories.

Jr is the best interviewer there is, hands down. Not afraid to ask the tough questions and prod for deeper answers.

Evernham may have been the go to Dodge team, but it was Chip Ganassi and Sterling Marlin getting the first win for Dodge. He led the points for 26 races in 2002. If he was not sidelined with the neck injury, Sterling would have been champion.

Too bad Bill couldnt say more than 5 words at a time and Dale had to carry the entire interview. Dodge sure had their work cut out for them. Davis couldnt keep his engine out of a toyota and Evernham couldnt keep his out of Crocker.

Ward Burton was my favourite driver at the time. I came over from the UK to watch a race at Darlington and I was lucky to meet Ward. He signed my programme. Man I loved that CAT 22.

This was cool.. I never knew much about Bill Davis, I do know Ward & Jeff were great at Darlington and those abrasive tracks. Fond memories.

Jr carried this interview. Jr said 100 words for every 1 Bill said.

I'm neither a fan nor hater of BD, but I get the feeling from watching this that BD is his own worst enemy. I don't hear him taking much responsibility for his teams inadequacies.

I loved that mbna scheme that ward had with Pontiac and the cat dodge

I loved those bill Davis cars. They made me like dodge in cup. My dad was a heavy equipment operator and I eventually became one: a cat car was so cool to me. They also kicked ass for what they were given. That 93 car was so much fun to root for and one of the best schemes of all time. Especially the white and gold version

The Dodge deal with Bill was strange too as they refused to help the BD Busch team so Scott Wimmer drove factory Pontiacs and Chevrolets with Dodge's permission in 2002-2003.

Im glad to see and hear this with Bill Davis..I think Jr is great interviewer but I will say I think he talked alot from this point on in the interview and would have wanted to hear more of what BD had to say in his own words instead of Jr laying it all out. Totally not hating on him and think hes great but it was pretty noticeable in this.

Brad Keselowski won a NASCAR Championship in 2012 with Dodge. ""Not one failure all year long in that Dodge engine, so I want to thank Dodge for what they've done for us," Penske said after Keselowski secured the title."

Hearing Dale Jr say "MOPAR POWER" was awesome 👊👊👊👊🇺🇲👍

Damn Jr shutdown mike with the "i just said that" comment. Ole Bill is still not telling the whole and nothing but the story.

I don't totally trust Bill's version of affairs on Dodge things.

I hate hearing folks talk about how Gordon did Bill wrong. What he did was nowhere near as Bill firing Ward Burton with a note , just 1 year after Ward won daytona 500.

Dodge had every right to sue Bill for moonlighting with Toyota. BDR may still be around if he hadn't had done things the way he did.

Everham could've worked out but Ray couldn't keep it in his pants. They were getting top equipment but Ray wasn’t doing his job at all. Which goes back to that one fiasco with Jeremy Mayfield (who had his life ruined because of it) you covered in a past podcast.

Dale let the man talk

I listrned to every Ward Burton interview just to hear him say Caterpillar Dodge in his unique voice

HOLD THE PHONE: DODGE THOUGHT JEFF GORDON WAS GONNA LEAVE HENDRICK/CHEVY AND DRIVE FOR THEM??? HOW DID YOU JUST GLOSS OVER THAT???

Now hold on a second guys. Saying dodges return to the series was a let down is being q little too harsh. When they got to cup sterling won the first duel race i believe and bill Elliott was on pole. They also won the championship on thier way out with brad k. Im not a huge dodge fan but credit is due for em. Also ward winning in 2002 second year back. Dodge was a star that shined twice as bright but burned out fast as well

Stellar interview. Just awesome. Loved it

Nice shirt. Used to watch him race when I was a kid at GPS.

This is a rough interview. Bill Davis either not saying much or Jr interrupting him, then Jr jumps on Mike and talks to him like he’s an idiot.

Talk about a case of does the cat have your tongue, I give Jr a lot of credit for this, he really had to work to pry the answers out of Bill Davis. And I’m not taking shots at Bill Davis, maybe he’s just a man of few words

Bill Davis had about as much manufacturer loyalty as ThorSport, which is to say none at all

Bill Davis brought Toyota into NASCAR, his company Triad serviced customer engines starting in trucks then moved to the other divisions until TRD could carry that amount of service. Then they serviced other manufacturers engines for private teams. Not sure if Triad is still around or got bought up by TRD or just closed.

Hard to believe Bill Davis has Jeff Gordon and then bobby Labonte and Ward Burton within not many years so he has some really talented drivers for such a small team I think Ward was more talented than Jeff he just never had as good of equipment as Roush gave Jeff

I would love to see dodge return

"The lawsuit claims Davis' employees built Toyota a truck with a Dodge engine installed and accompanied it to an April 30 wind tunnel test in Marietta, Ga."

Dale jr keeps nascar in the news like his dad !

I remember the Dodge deal got so bad, Michael wouldn't even refer to his car as a Dodge. It was the Napa Hotrod.

Ward should have taken the cat sponsorship and left for a better team. Bill Davis seemed shady.

Lucky for Jeff, Ray's pockets weren't deep enough to match Rick's lifetime deal. Ray got distracted by the new talent and lost track of the rest of the operation.

Jr. something that might help add some substance is allowing the interviewee the chance to tell the story. I’m sure you need to keep moving things along, but I feel like Bill had more to say on some topics. Shawn Ryan is fantastic at this on his videos. I love this channel and really appreciate it. Just a very small critique.

Good video, but I felt like Dale shut down Mike a bit there. I think Mike was going to lead it toward some different line of questioning.

I get a kick out of Jr. treating Mike like a dummy. 😂

Jimmy Hensley should be in the HoF.

The question I didnt hear was "Bill why did you give TRD a Dodge racing engine" Its great when a story only touches around the edges of the truth. Bill Davis got everything he deserved.

Could have been settled a lot easier by BDR not working with another manufacturer to develop a car for NASCAR. Huge violation of the contract with Dodge. Especially when they were testing the Toyota with Dodge engines in them before Toyota had their engine developed. Seriously doubt Cat would tool up and start casting blocks that more than likely had copyrights on. Dodge will never come back into NASCAR because every time Dodge outran Chevies NASCAR would change the rules on the car or engine for Dodge's and slow them down. They are done with that BS!

Bill and Dale Jr kinda forgot about the best Dodge team in 2001 and 2002 CGR

Jr. you are one great human I know it will probably never happen but I would love to be you one day. Just a down to earth intelligent person. 🙏. Maybe one day I’ll get lucky enough. Hope you and all your family stay healthy and the rest of 2023 gets better and better and by the way thanks for all the great videos. Awesome job.

If you look back far enough there is a truck engine for Toyota and a cup engine. That cup engine got in serious trouble. It was a carbon copy of a Dodges engine. Toyota tried to raise the cam in the block no no Dodge got yelled at for that one. How dare bill Davis cuss Ernie Elliott and Tony Santanicola bout the dodge engine people. Bill Davis through Dodge under the buss. That Toyota money got him greedy

W Burton certainly doesnt seem like that kind of a diva or hard to work with kind of person. Furthest thing from it. He stayed a long time and probably lost out on a lot of money moving on to another team.

Great show guys but how do I get one of those Butch Lindley t-shirts? That is so cool!

I remember in 2003 13 year old me hearing Bill Davis was working with Toyota and thinking, what the heck???, this won't end well, lol.

Then the Dodge deal just got weird. The Intrepids had front ends that looked just like the Stratus road car. The "Charger" came out, but it was a cross between the Magnum and some duck lookin kinda thing. The Dodge drivers didn't know what to call their cars.

Ward Burton was an excellent driver. Loyal to the teams he drove for and made out of heavy duty leather

2002 Daytona 500 Champion one of the nicest people out there Bill Davis. I have a picture at Daytona USA with Ward's car

Way to dig man .

Well this sure adds alot to the story about Bill. However, I always loved the colors on the #93 Amaco car. Especially since it was a Pontiac and i'm a big time Pontiac fan. I still have an autograph photo of Dave Blaney with that car. But i gotta say it didn't surprise me none when Davis said about the how chrysler engines were poorly made. As a tech from the late 90s onward, i can attest that mopar products and their vehicles back then were nothing but junk. Almost every week i had to be working on several jeeps, interpids, carvans, etc. I hated it! Everything i saw they made had issues. From engine failures, especially that horrible 3.8L engine, electrical issues, and the completely rusted out strut towers from the mini-vans. I mean for them to get into racing without fixing there production problems is just doing things half assed. What made it worse is when Dalmer took over and incorporated their mercedez bens auto stick feature. It just didn't work! So it to no surprise that Mopar only lasted as long as they did. In a sense, i'm glad they came into the sport because it was great to see the big three competing on the Nascar stage, but then again, that performance program had a lot to be desired. Not sure if it was true or not but i heard awhile ago as to one of the reasons why those dodges weren't competitive as the other two is partial due to the amount of mass on the engine block that cause the cars to "push" alot in the corners making them hard to steer. This could have been just wild rumors, but i can't forget that for some reason. Maybe someone can chime in on that.

So I don’t have a horse in the race but my experience with car owners that have routine problems with drivers being “bull headed” or “personality conflicts”. Normally someone in the leadership of the team is toxic and driving the venom. -- but even in lower series it’s perfectly understood you don’t go working on another make in any way while your wearing the colors. Drivers and teams forget when you wear sponsor logos or names. That company is blessing off on you to represent them. So if you wear Home Depot colors you can’t be working on a Lowes project. Or if your dealing with Chevy you can’t go running Ford’s. I ran in 4 series for a couple of years and It was a chore managing the sponsor conflicts. It just seems extremely brazen to work on a Toyota while being sponsored by dodge. In anyway btw. Forget it being cup. Normally in the contracts you can’t do anything it’s like being married. You can’t go get another wife or gf you will end up in divorce court

This is like pulling teeth. Jr. Keeps opening doors with questions, it seems like Mr. Davis keeps his thoughts and answers very short to the point. Would like to hear the details.

People always say Steve Kinser this or that but Blaney was successful in dirt and had a long racing career in NASCAR and the Bush series.

People forget that Toyota struggled big time when it entered cup in 2007. Red Bull and MWR missed a lot of races. There was no charter system and these teams had no owners points to fall back on. Dale Jarret brought over UPS Sponsorship from Yates and it turned into a fiasco.

Dont remember if i ever saw bill davis before anywhere. Like his style but there shouldve been more elaboration on stuff and maybe less interrupting the guy before he says something really good.

Good stories

Love the Butch Lindley shirt

So glad Gordon left this team for Hendrick

The Thursday show should be called the victory lap. !!

I grew up in the dirt track scene,, namely around the blaneys off and on.. awesome to watch Dave in a sprint car... his dad loui dominated in the 60s to 90s in the modifieds. Fun fact dave blaney got Toyotas first win in nascar.

I'm with Jr. I don't remember any of that stuff with Dodge happening. These days, any kind of issues are publicly blasted

That old man didn’t seem to want to be there…

Learn so much, Bill is tough to get him to open up Jr has to pry it out of him, overall good job, Bill is a good man. 🏁

Always a Bill Davis fan….

98 percent Jr. talking & couple words from Bill. Instead of talking at him, maybe ask simple concise questions & let the man answer.

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I heard that Daimler wanted all the racing money to be funneled into Mercedes racing projects, after Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler. But, the NASCAR project was too far along to cancel the it and contracts already in place. Litigation would have been nasty and very long to get out of the contracts.

I thought Ward was BDR's best driver. Had Wimmer just waited a bit longer and had not burned the bridge with Dodge, that could have been a championship team

Dang Jr. you seem way too excited to tell this story. You never let Bill talk at all. We would like to hear his side of the story.

I think I remember a tiny bit of them having to cover up the logos on the car but it's really faint it seem like it was Ward's car that's all I can remember nowadays the story like that would be talked about quite a bit back then it seemed like it flew under the radar

How come they not showing the whole show any more.

Are you looking for the all star race this year?

That whole deal between Bill Davis racing and dodge with davis with Toyota to get them in to start racing.

I hope to see Dodge come back in at least the Xfinity series. Seems it was there most profitable series and those Challengers were BA looking.

Wow, Lil E... You don't have a lot of love for Benson do ya? That s too bad, He won a race in all three series, a champ of two. And he did it while you and your pals used him to get a caution when you needed it. Not much love for Davis either, Why did they break up the 23 team after the championship, and bank on the second team?

Dale is trying really hard to make it a good interview.

Can we submit ideas for discussion topics for a future podcast? If so, how?

I remember Kyle Petty saying dodge fined him like 150 grands for relief driving for Harvick at bristol. I thought that was pretty shitty of them. Maybe Harvick could have returned the favor later on but I guess dodge saw it differently.

Dodge runs a non NASCAR configured power plant in the Hemi. But it's been the base of NHRA for decades!!

I think the Daimler part of Chrysler ruined the deal. I remember Krannefus calling them a bunch of arrogant pricks.

Ronny Crooks son Colby did my shocks for awhile.. RIP

I kinda thought that Bill was holding back, and he's definitely not the guy to (Bad Mouth) people. Kind of a struggle to get him to open up about everything.

I have been a Ford guy since the 70s and 80s when I worked on a mini modified at Nashville Fairground. That said I would love it if Honda would join Nascar.

Massively disappointed with his comments on Ward after all the loyalty he showed Bill

I remember when Davis developed the Toyota Nascar program with the truck entrant and Dodge was so upset that they pulled support from Bill Davis team. Eventually switched to Toyota in 2007 when they entered cup series level. Dodge felt angry that the competition was coming in their yard. Five millions dollars of anger by Dodge that Bill and Toyota had to pay. Sad that Davis' team had to close up for good.

The biggest problem with Dodge is Chrysler corporation decided to go cup racing and started things in motion with the truck series and Busch, then mercedes bought them, there was no merger, and mercedes management got involved and didn't really care about naSCar because all Mercedes cares about is f1.

I just said that 😂😅

Damn never seen Dale Jr. rely on reading the script so much.

Ward should have left earlier.

I kinda tried to like Bill Davis Racing. Now I can see why I never really bought in. He's either a terrible communicator or he chooses to avoid providing detail. Either way he doesn't seem like a good example of a leader.

How about Jimmy Horton? He was an almost guy.

I refuse to believe Jr when he says 5 million would shut him down, come on now lol.

Mr Davis seems like a very mysterious and shady guy.....

They needed to talk about engine design! Look at toyota v8 and the mopar. Made me say hmmm. They had No pushrod mtr till they copied mopar!

Winning the Daytona 500 crown jewel of auto racing

Is this the same Bill Davis who let Jeff Gordon go..............didn't see any potential. Dodge qualified 1-2-3 at Daytona and also won one of the qualifying races. All 10 Dodge's qualified for Daytona................NO engine block failures ever. Gave Toyota one of our engines which they immediately copied. Got sued and lost big time. By the way I was one of the Dodge people who worked on the engine program. Two of us worked on the original race group engines for the Petty's back in the day. Yep..............no experience there. Poor old Bill..............looks like dementia has kicked in.

After hearing this interview, I don’t get why the fanbase claims a car sponsored by a manufacturer like Chevy or Dodge is “unsponsored.” If anything, having that on your car just shows that your team has the manufacture support of a major OEM. Look at the Evernham team as a prime example of that. A lot of fans portray having Chevy or Toyota on the hood as a sign of bad things. I think that’s just a misguided assumption.