Doug Yates: My Dad and Jack (Roush) Didn't Like Each Other 

I thought Holman Moody had a huge opperation with an advanced engine shop?

I was a Dale Jarrett fan, so I was overjoyed when he won the 1999 championship with the Yates engines. Jarrett was so fast on the superspeedways he would drop out of the top 10 and run 30th till there was 50 to go and then he would pass cars like they were standing still. Ned Jarrett was calling the laps and Robert Yates's power was all the talk.

Jack could had Jeff Gordon drive his car but he was too stubborn to let Jeff bring Ray Everham

This is he best show on NASCAR period!!!

I miss the old NASCAR ! Great stories! Great Men !

I always like hearing stories like these. I can understand them not wanting to show their hand at everything. Jack Roush was always more geared towards getting the best fuel mileage. Where Robert Yates was probably mindful of the importance of fuel mileage but cared more about building horsepower.

We lost Robert and when Jack goes it will be a sad end to a era.

I actually think Brad will get that thing turned around, he is a smart guy. I'm a Chevy, Hendrick man, but I like Brad.

I know Jack thru air racing and building a Merlin V12 for the P51. Super nice guy and very helpful with information and how to fix/operate the Merlin engine. He built and designed the first roller rocker cam setup for the V12

Talked with Jack Roush at the Reno Air Races and to me he's a pretty straight forward likable guy.

Love Roush and Yates. Two great personalities that helped build NASCAR.

Listened to the whole interview last night. WORLD CLASS !!!

The story I heard a few years ago was that Yates brought HP and Roush brought longevity to their engines. The one thing that Hendrick has the Roush Yates doesn't have is NASCARS ear.

Roush needed Yates in a bad way

I recall a story from the 1992 Coca Cola 600 weekend.... Dale had not won yet in '92. The Fords were dominating. Dale got in Mark Martin's 600 Cup car and ran a few laps. He got out and told them " nice handling car, not much motor though" LOL. That was a knife into Jack Roush's chest.

Just finished listening to the last two podcast. Like 100% of DJDL they were incredible. Thanks DMM!

Great interview.

Great video!

As a diehard Dale Sr fan back then, I remember thinking after the 1990 Mello Yello 500 where they had those problems, not as bad as the previous season All Pro 500 where they finished I think dead last, but still enough problems to set them back in the pack. I remember looking at the remainder of the schedule back then & thinking that Mark would have enough to hold Dale off and win that years Winston Cup based on the fact that he had won at Rockingham the previous season for his & Roush's 1st Cup win so I figured they'll either win Rockingham again or finish top 5 then run well enough at Phoenix & Atlanta to close the deal. Well, at The Rock Dale & Mark qualified like right next to each other & then finished right next to each other in like 9th and 10th or something like that. Then at Phoenix I was like well Mark will win this race, Sr hadn't won there yet and it seemed like Mark & Jack would probably be better. Well as luck would have it, Earnhardt ended up dominating the race after Rusty Wallace had some kind of mechanical failure in the first 50 laps and Mark instead limped home in I think 10th maybe. Dale left Phoenix with the points lead cause of that and I knew then that it was a done deal that Dale Sr was going to win the 1990 Winston Cup cause Atlanta was Earnhardt country at that time, Dale had not only won the earlier Atlanta race that season, the Motorcraft 500 in March BUT he had also dominated and won the previous season ending Atlanta Journal 500 falling just short of the 89 Cup to Rusty. I remember the annoucement that Mark was going to use one of Davey's cars instead of a Roush car & my 1st thought was WHY? The Roush cars had run better than RYR cars all year BUT for some reason well hell after listening to this clip I guess I know now. The irony of the whole situation is that in the next years season ending Atlanta race, Martin dominated and won. I wonder if Jack said I told ya when they got to victorylane, they shoulda borrowed one of Bud Moore's Thunderbirds in 1990 seeing as how Morgan Shepherd won that race...

Dale Jr. U ROCK!!!

Great show.

Best podcast on the Tube!

These are the best interviews in motorsports. Why are they not fully available in video form?

Both those dudes, (Jack and Robert) were totally opposite personalities, accept for the desire to win. I remember the story of Robert Yates bumping his car into Roush leaving the track one time and Robert was screaming at Roush out the window to "get out of the way, you're going too slow".......LoL. Roush is a penny pincher. He thinks a nickel is a man hole cover. I heard that when Jack's teams were blowing all those engines, some had used parts in them since they were experimenting to find the real cause of the failures. Many times it was the used parts that caused the failures. He had some weird Idea to make more power and was determined to make it work. Most of those engines blew up. The story goes that Jack was hand picking used connecting rods from a barrel of "end of life cycle" rods to find 8 of the best appearing ones.

Another great podcast! Great job! Talking about engines I wonder if Richie Gilmore has ever been considered as a guest?

Jack Roush has always been a no BS guy. I personally respect the hell out of him.

It's kind of surprising to me when listening to Dale, Jr. that he remembers a lot of things you wouldn't think he would remember and then there are some things one would think he definitely should remember but doesn't such as thinking that Mark Martin's engine blew up that Jack Roush got from Yates in the 1990 finale at Atlanta. I mean this was his dad's first championship in the Goodwrench car (should have been the second- '89). What really doomed Mark Martin and Jack Roush for the 1990 championship was a decision to pit for tires when a caution came out with 15 laps to go at the next to last race of the season at Phoenix while running in the sixth position. Martin came into the race with a 45 point lead over Dale Earnhardt. When that caution came out the live points at the time was Martin (6th- 150 points) and Earnhardt (1st- 185 points with the lap(s) led bonus). Martin would have had a ten point advantage going into Atlanta had the race ended then. Martin would come out of the pits in 12th position. Unfortunately for Martin and Roush another caution came out another lap later after the restart and it cost him more green flag laps. He had only seven green flag laps for the remaining of the race after he pitted and it didn't help that lapped cars got to be on the inside of the lead lap cars on restarts thus putting more cars in between him and position cars. He would finish 10th getting 134 race points while Earnhardt would get max points for a race with 185. Earnhardt would take a six point advantage over Martin going to Atlanta that was arguably Earnhardt's all time best track (record nine wins) who had won the two previous races ran there. That's what experience and champions do is put pressure on you by leading and it makes you over think and make uncomfortable and regretful decisions. It doesn't end there. After the epic performance by Earnhardt at Phoenix, Earnhardt and RCR would have an legendary performance at Atlanta... in PRACTICE. The mind games they would play with Martin, Roush, and the Ford camp was unbelievable. Childress and Earnhardt decided to put right side tires on the left side of the car and with the Ford camp timing his lap, Earnhardt set a new track record in practice. Curtains. This was devastating to Martin, Roush and the Ford camp. As mentioned by Yates, Martin wanted a Yates engine after that "to keep up" with Earnhardt and although he managed a sixth place finish in the race, he had nothing for Earnhardt. Earnhardt led laps early and was more inclined to make sure he stayed in front of Martin than he was trying to win the race. If Martin was running second or third Earnhardt would have been running first or second. With no disrespect to Morgan Shepherd who won the race, had Earnhardt really needed to win the race he would have. Earnhardt finished 3rd and leading laps and he would win the championship by 26 points after starting the year with a heart breaking and one would think crushing defeat at the Daytona 500 by dominating the race and blowing a tire on the last lap of the race while leading. That's what champions do.

Things might have been different in '90 if Roush used a Yates motor in one of his own cars at the Atlanta race. Roush, being the hard head that he is, told Mark if he wanted to use a Yates motor, he was going to have to use a Yates car too. Geez.

How does he say it's Dale's fault and you guys never follow up?? Didn't hear one comment about it afterwards, that's what I wanted to hear.

I own a machine shop in N. East Detroit. Been in the trade for 45 years. The equipment is only as good as the operator.

Mike, where’d ya get the hat? I’m a Southern grad too, I haven’t seen that one!

I wish they would put the full interview up on RU-vid. I don’t get why they don’t.

I seem to remember part of it was a nascar rule that parts approval. Robert Yates was like do we give them our stuff or do we want to have to use their stuff

@1:26 love it.... inquiring minds want to know.... WHY.?

They run 2 laps at Daytona on a qualifying lap. DJ was close to the last car to make a qualifying run. He was 3 or 4th fastest on his first lap. It was crazy.

Jack's persona on tv fits what these two said, to a T!

How can you not like Doug Yates?

Old thread but i was gifted a set of 1$ bills that had stickers on them with the drivers faces. Under each sticker instead of their names were their nicknames instead. For dale Jarrett it was "Mr. Horsepower"

I would much rather watch these entire interviews online vs audio.

I'd like to hear about the time the Yates engine blew on the dyno and they said it was because the Nascar officials let the engine idle too long.

I remember the All Star race the first year that they started running the Roush-Yates engines in the Roush cars. Kurt had the latest and greatest, Biffle had the old Roush engine and Kurt ran him over and wrecked him with all that extra power.

Dale Sr was keeping Computer was up all night just trying to keep up with him

jack built those great road race cars too for the Rolex 24

I think roush was dumb for not keeping Carl Edwards , he would have won a championship if they kept him, I think but that's me

Back in the 70’s we sold connecting rods to Gap and Roush Racing! Jack wasn’t easy to get along with then!

Doug Yates is good people!

D.E. @ M.D. .....................I'm old ...........and this is great stuff............and just what I thought about Jack Roush!!!!!! ...........now get the old man on ,so he can answer up ??????

Never have cared much for Jack.

Whether you like or dislike JACK ROUSH he was at the top of his game his cars were always in the hunt. Dont really know what happened with his organization over the years I suspect when he lost his talented drivers things took a turn for the worse. Dont know if BRAD is going to be able to turn this organization around or not i dont know how much input he has to the day to day operation and dont know if JACK is the type of person that will listen to other opinions. There is a lot of rebuilding to be done.

Has Jack Roush ever been in the DJ DL?

I don't think Ford Racing ever really recovered in the 90s through the early 2000s from the loss of Davey Allison and Allen Kulwicki just months apart.

Robert Yates = Class Act. Jack Roush, not so much.

Read the title wrong thought it was Dale Sr and Jack Roush hated each other

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Robert and jack have the same birthday

Mildly hilarious, in that Roush and Yates joined forces...and RFK racing is still not much better than a mid-pack team.

Let's ask Willy T. Ribbs what he thinks of Robert Yates?

Jack’s ego got in the way earlier. Yates always had more power. I know a Driver that was going to quit Roush if he didn’t use Yates heads. Might have been MM, I’m not sure 🤔

Larry Walace

Ya but no personality

How can Jack Roush be considered intimidating? He's an old dude that stands 5'2" a buck 140 soaking wet.

All that research, all that testing, all them buildings but it didn't matter because they couldn't build or make another dale earnhardt, he was the difference, that was no secret.

Why is Jr interviewing a Ford team? Sr or Jr either one couldn't stand Ford! I don't know why? Sr won his first race in a Ford! I'm a big time Ford fan! Thats why i never liked SR,JR,GORDON or another Chevy drivers ! Jr only wants to drive the pace car if its a pos camero or corvette,Hell he wouldn't even interview the winner of the race in the winners circle if it was a Ford that won ! JR AND SR was nothing but a joke to the sport in my book!!!