Geoff Bodine Tells Real Story of "Days of Thunder" Feud with Dale Earnhardt

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Episode #40 of "Kenny Conversation" is one of NASCAR's 75 greatest drivers Geoff Bodine!
In this clip Bodine describes his feud and famous Daytona meeting with Dale Earnhardt that was portrayed in "Days of Thunder."
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@artnascar9748 4 месяца назад

Damn those were some good times. ✌️🇺🇸

@BlueRidgeKat1 4 месяца назад

I love this. Would rather listen to those stories or read the retired drivers books than to watch any race today.

@christopherwalker8327 4 месяца назад

I remember all those races like it was yesterday😁

@stevenewsam1993 4 месяца назад

I do too! Sunday afternoons during the season were always booked and I was planted in front of that TV.

@ytwatcher8288 4 месяца назад

thanks Kenny, Geoff has always been one of my favorite greats...

@steveeazy18 4 месяца назад

Man i miss them days!! All the guys I grew up watching racing with have passed on but seeing Bodine was great nostalgia for me!! Thanks for this amazing interview!

@Gemni65 4 месяца назад

See the thing is we had it so good didn’t know it 😊😊😊😊

@gobbler1957 4 месяца назад

My family and friends went to 5-6 races a year during the mid 70's through mid 90's. To me, those were the days. It was always a big party Saturday night and a great race on Sunday. Geoff Bodine was a great driver. Thanks for the memories of that time in racing.✌️

@Bud88883 4 месяца назад

I SEE THE MOUTH IS STILL GOING.

@toddhenriksen2503 4 месяца назад

Earnhardt all day everyday!!

@georgemyers6518 4 месяца назад

This is the first I’ve seen Geoff since I was 13 years old(1973). His race car shop was down the street from where I lived in Waverly,N.Y

@randymente80 4 месяца назад

Back then you never mess around with Bodine Glad your doing good Geoff

@mikehoncho3695 4 месяца назад

My father knocked him out cold at a track in upstate new York 😅

@randymente80 4 месяца назад

@@mikehoncho3695 Good for him

@davidgerstung5144 4 месяца назад

I have to say that those were the best days of nascar Different times and brands of cars and the talent that they had. Great stuff Kenny.

@0017Bulldog 4 месяца назад

This was fantastic. I loved the Earnhardt Bodine rivalry. I always loved the underdog, so I kept hoping for Bodine to beat him . Fun stuff.

@mikep1085 4 месяца назад

Geoff Bodine... One of the NASCAR GREATS!

@mikefearn6596 4 месяца назад

I'm from the northeast,where the Bodine Bros. ruled....

@jdtractorman7445 4 месяца назад

Remember how Felix Sabates thought Dale got so much preferential treatment that he painted Kyle Petty's car black and silver for the Dover race one year. 🤣 I didn't even realize that story in the movie was about Dale and Geoff, pretty funny.

@toddedwards5373 4 месяца назад

You would think if you are on the nascar 50 and 75 greatest drivers list and have 18 cup wins and a daytona 500 your name would come up more for hall of fame consideration.

@stevea6936 4 месяца назад

I 100% agree with that why Geoff Bodine is not in the Nascar Hall of Fame is outright shameful. Guinness Book of World Records most wins in a single season driving modifieds 60 wins. Giving Rick Hendrick his first NASCAR win. Surviving clearly the most horrific non-fatal wreck in the history of Daytona Speedway in that truck race and let not anyone forget donating his own time and money to completely redesign the American bobsleds so that we could win our first gold medal in Vancouver in 2010. A completely unselfish human being except maybe on the racetrack and clearly a victim of NASCAR's bias against Northeastern drivers. They have elected the late Richie Evans and the late Mike Stefanick as modified drivers into the hall of fame but not BODINE😡😡. Bodine in his heyday could beat any modified driver anywhere in the United States as well as being a threat to win NASCAR on any given weekend. NASCAR clearly has a bias for whatever reasons against Bodine and it is outright shameful!!!

@markc3456 4 месяца назад

Bodine was my favorite driver when i was a kid. But man, that 5 car blew a lot of engines vack then.

@Unstreetable80 4 месяца назад

Dammit Herman, I wanted to hear the rest of that story🤣 I guess I’m gonna have to buy the damn book now🤣

@Storkleton 4 месяца назад

Geoff looks younger now than he did then. I loved Dale back then but Geoff and DW were the true personalities of the golden era

@oldblueshhrchannel1847 4 месяца назад

Hey, Geoff good seeing you.

@tompiper1480 4 месяца назад

Enjoyed the interview

@32bootzie 4 месяца назад

Geoff was a driver that was a threat to win at any track , when he had a good (decent) car under him , now that I'am old , and reaIize his talents , I have alot of respect for him. 👍

@Ghostmotorfinger 4 месяца назад

Earnhardt Forever!.

@wegottafishdude 4 месяца назад

🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 Awesome stuff dude

@brianvincavage7626 4 месяца назад

Bout time someone covered this

@chrislovett6120 4 месяца назад

Great story. Can’t wait to get the book

@whiteyshark5826 4 месяца назад

I absolutely love this!!

@vg452 4 месяца назад

The true roots of the Earnhardt vs. Hendrick beef.

@Defcon666 3 месяца назад

2:54 found the perfect sound for the electric car speakers when passing someone. 😆

@reidlambert7447 4 месяца назад

I was at the race in Darlington when Lake Speed won and Dale and Geoff crashed right in front of us. My brother said they at it again. LOL

@marcuscompton3772 3 месяца назад

Kenny i went out of my way to meet ya twice and you are a genuine man!!! We need a lot more Kenny Wallace's in the world but we'll have to make do with one. Lol

@charlessommers7218 4 месяца назад

Great show

@bigeddie1231 4 месяца назад

I had no idea it was about those guys. That is awesome. Very cool. Thank you for sharing.

@edmundanderson657 4 месяца назад

And a little Tim Richmond too.

@steventweed3599 4 месяца назад

There were a handful of drivers who would go toe to toe with Earnhardt: Bodine, Rudd & Richmond come to mind. However, the best one I ever saw from Mark Martin of all people. It was Michigan in about 1992 or 1993. Earnhardt wrecked Martin in practice and Martin was livid because it wadded up his car and he had to start in the back. The green flag dropped and Earnhardt went to the lead but the cameras were watching Martin because he was incredibly fast and driving like an absolute madman. Martin gets to second place, then radios in "Jack? I might be bringing you back a steering wheel." He closes on Earnhardt and Big E shoots up the racetrack to let Mark go on the inside. Childress radioed Earnhardt something to the effect of "Don't piss him off again." Mark dominated but didn't win. If I remember correctly, it came down to fuel mileage and Darrell Waltrip scored his very last Cup win in the Western Auto Chevy.

@RichieRichpobutproud 4 месяца назад

I'm not a fan of either driver but there must be a little truth to what Bodine was saying. There were a lot of people back in the day that used to "tongue in cheek" say that the 3 car was owned by Nascar. That may not be true, but no one can deny that Earnhardt got preferential treatment. Remember when Earnhardt was black flagged for loose or missing lug nuts? He came into the pits, all were present and Nascar kept the caution out and allowed Earnhardt his position back on the track. That was unprecedented. Anybody else was given the old "too bad, were were wrong, go to the back of the pack". Kenny, I know you remember this!

@DavidClark-vu3dw 4 месяца назад

It was because it was near the end of the season and it was a tight points race.

@RichieRichpobutproud 4 месяца назад

@@DavidClark-vu3dw please. It was unprecedented.

@vinewood8295 4 месяца назад

Preferential treatment by NASCAR? Sr was flagged for like 5 laps at Charlotte once back in about 1988 after contact with Geoff Bodine, you call that preferential treatment? Or how about the time they flagged him twice in the 1993 Coca-Cola 600 but he came back & STILL won that race. Let's not even mention the 95 Bristol Night Race when he was again black flagged twice & come back to run second to Labonte, damn near won...

@DavidClark-vu3dw 4 месяца назад

@@RichieRichpobutproud well, the commentators were saying it wasn't right to bring a driver in for no lugs and then find out his lugs were fine and not give him his spot back. Nascar heard this and knew if they didn't they wouldn't hear the end of it, but they didn't give him his 5th place spot, they let him start 7th!

@RichieRichpobutproud 4 месяца назад

@@vinewood8295 yes, even Earnhardt could get away with only so much. Geez, some of you guys treat Earnhardt like he was a god. Great race car driver? Yes. One of the best ever? Yes. Got away with crap way more than he was punished for? Yep.

@billycook-rm3xu 4 месяца назад

Bodine was a hella driver.

@tacituskilgore8747 4 месяца назад

"Hit the pace car!" - Harry

@pulsarlights2825 4 месяца назад

Bobby Allison said for years the same thing about Richard Petty for years, he had a major advantage over his competition because that's what NASCAR wanted..

@oak49sox 4 месяца назад

Got to watch Bodine win at Pocono. Camped out in the infield all weekend. Harry Gant actually had a great car that day as well. Kyle Petty ran out of gas during qualifying. They pushed his car through the infield. He was on the hood waving at all the fans. I still go to races cuz racing is in me. I just wish it was like it used to be.

@frankcastle5294 4 месяца назад

I own 2 Plymouth SuperBirds from almost new and a Monte Carlo SS AeroCoupe so I know what these cars look like in person and how they are to work on and maintain. The Monte AeroCoupe IMO was the most beautiful looking NASCAR spec race car in history. And they were really fast at Daytona and Talladega. Jaws still holds the all-time Chevrolet qualifying speed for NASCAR at 210MPH and change...in an AeroCoupe.

@frankcastle5294 4 месяца назад

Thanks Kenny and keep up the great vids. You're really great at what you do and us minions appreciate your efforts.

@sergeantmasson3669 4 месяца назад

Sometimes Dale Sr would mess with people just for the enjoyment of doing so. Today, "bump drafting" is no longer allowed.

@DavidClark-vu3dw 4 месяца назад

Hiring Geoff Bodine to be his first Nascar driver was the best decision Rick Hendrick ever made!

@curtisstowers1508 4 месяца назад

Where can you get the book along with some of the other drivers

@OldHickoryAndyJackson 4 месяца назад

If you didn't have a feud with Big E, you weren't racing

@jimmyjackass1805 4 месяца назад

I remember watching Ritchie Evans and Bodine go at it in the Mods at my Home track in NY. Had Ritchie gone to The Cup series Dale would have had a lot bigger problems on his hands. Ritchie would not have wrecked him. He would have drove around him. Shame we never got to see it happen.

@B25gunship 4 месяца назад

We must be close. I too watched these two battle in upstate NY. Spencer Speedway. Never heard of Geoff Bodine until my first summer back from military service in 1971. He drove the Valiant at the time. When I left for service in 67 they were driving coupes and coaches. When I came back it was more modern stuff. Those were the days. And you are absolutely correct. Ritchie would have just kicked up gravel in Earnhardts face. Dale definitely was the Nascar posterchild.

@jimmyjackass1805 4 месяца назад

@@B25gunship We ran Spencer on special occasions in the Late 80s You are about 150 Miles west of me. Spencer Speedway is near Rochester witch is Western NY. I'm in the Finger Lakes Region. I watched Ritchie run at Shangri-La Speedway In Owego. Bodines track was 10 miles up the road in Chemung and is still open to this day. Shangri-La 2 is opening back up after a few years down this summer. I remember Spencer Speedway had the best Hot Dogs. LOL

@B25gunship 4 месяца назад

@@jimmyjackass1805 Yes.....those dogs were good. I do remember them. I never made it down to Shangri-La but always wanted to. Glad to hear they will run again. Spencer is about 15 miles east of Rochester along the lake out in Wayne Co. where I live. They are running 5 or 6 times a year and putting on a good show. I watch a lot of dirt at Canandaigua and my sons and grandson make the haul to Oswego once or twice a year for the supers. We're thinking of trying Lancaster and/or Fonda this year. Glad you have some great tracks in your area.

@jimmyjackass1805 4 месяца назад

@@B25gunship Tioga County has always had a lot of Racing We have Speedway Motorcycles and a Quad track on FSS Nights The Skiview Dragstrip and Shangri La and 12 miles west is Chemung Speedway. Sad the Hay day of Mod racing is sadly over.

@joefell7845 4 месяца назад

Thompson International Speedway in CT every Sunday night is where I watched them.

@brentweir4651 4 месяца назад

Boy do I miss that man. I do feel a little sorry for Geoff, and Darrell, and a few others, but Dale was NASCAR back then. If we hadn't had lost Davey and Tim Richmond, maybe it would've been different. Who knows, but I miss Big E every race I watch.

@tucksmith8300 4 месяца назад

Geoff Bodine was a good driver

@jarm7726 4 месяца назад

I thought I saw Geoff die in that Daytona truck race worst wreck I've seen

@KennyWallace36 4 месяца назад

awful

@MRosati5000 4 месяца назад

Yes. Glad Jeff's alright. Those were some great battle's and super dangerous.

@mattfetter4123 4 месяца назад

Yes ! That was a scary crash. I was there. Got a lobster sun burn that day. Sunday came, and we were dressed in our carharts😅

@joefell7845 4 месяца назад

They wouldn't let the trucks run Daytona when the series first started.

@joefell7845 4 месяца назад

They wouldn't let the trucks run Daytona when the series first started.

@tylerbuckley4661 4 месяца назад

Nascar was on the map before tom cruises days of thunder stroker ace was the one

@dannypowers4995 4 месяца назад

Captain Jack let #3 get away with whatever he wanted . The only driver who did not get wrecked by #3 was the pace car driver.

@1eyewilly 4 месяца назад

On another note "7 time" qualified for The Daytona 500!

@ap101081 4 месяца назад

Would be nice to know the name of the book Geoff has in his hand! I'd look for a copy here.

@ergmsg 4 месяца назад

"All Of It" He has it on his hat, and shows the book cover in the full-version of his Kenny Conversation.

@stewpuddy4161 4 месяца назад

Man, I hated Bodine back then.

@AndyFromBeaverton 4 месяца назад

You can put all that hate on Denny.

@KennyWallace36 4 месяца назад

haha

@BlueRidgeKat1 4 месяца назад

I hated Earnhardt.

@kurtfoulke5130 4 месяца назад

Winston Cup racing was so intense back then, that you actually had Love/Hate relationships with drivers, owners & sponsors. There are fantastic drivers in the field today but, I really don't give a shit about who they are. 😂

@kurtfoulke5130 4 месяца назад

Geoff could run anything, anywhere. How many laps do you think Cement Head would have made around Martinsville in an open wheel Modified ?

@erronflynn8766 4 месяца назад

👍🏻

@plantfeeder6677 4 месяца назад

Well Geoff wasn't my favorite driver, he became one when he drove the #15 for Bud Moore. Two victories I'll remember by him. In 1992 winning at North Wilksboro clinching the manufacturers title for Ford and his incredible win in 1993 at Sonoma.

@tmklunk 4 месяца назад

Bodine started it

@kwil6648 4 месяца назад

I like Geoff Bodine, I've seen a few of his "book tour" interviews as of late. I like him but hate the way he keeps saying buy the book, buy the book. Geez we get it, it's a book tour and a book is a long read with lots of stories right? Pick a couple of stories to tell on these promotional interviews and tell them without pleading for people to buy the book.

@kurtfoulke5130 4 месяца назад

As a PA Yankee, I loved that yellow Levi Garrett car and hated that Wrangler car !

@coyboybc 4 месяца назад

I agree

@jamesthalacker862 4 месяца назад

do you guys not get tired of talking about the Earnhardt all the time

@dennislamers986 4 месяца назад

Those were the great days of racing. When WINSTON CUP Era ended nascar as we know it started to loose my interest

@justinbell3640 4 месяца назад

Always Liked Geoff, even though my dad called him yankee, he liked him as a driver mone the less lol

@walteringramii4313 4 месяца назад

I was at Charlotte during this feud. Earnhardt would wreck Bodine and keep going. Bodine would wreck Earnhardt AND himself. Bodine is right about how they took care of Earnhardt. I remember one race after pit road speed limits had been imposed. E was running 2nd-3rd4th maybe, but back at least several seconds. There was a series of late green flag pit stops. Earnhardt mysteriously went from several seconds back to the lead during those pit stops. No penalty!

@vinewood8295 4 месяца назад

I truly believe Bodine was in the car that Dale Earnhardt should have been driving, he was driving for RCR because of a promise made back in the early 80's that when-ever RCR could put a competitive car under Dale, they would team up again and try to win the Winston Cup BUT had that promise not come about I think Dale starts off Hendrick Motorsports in the #5 Wrangler Monte Carlo. I always thought that car was a wayyyy better car than Bodine was a driver, we saw how good Hendrick Motorsports could build racecars early on when Tim Richmond drove for them, who knows how well Dale Sr would have done had he driven a Cup car for Rick. I think at the very least, he wins one more Winston Cup and probably 20 more races to include a couple more Daytona 500's...

@brianlehr78 4 месяца назад

Two sides to every story and we are only hearing one side here

@petegregory517 4 месяца назад

@5:40….says it all. Not scripted? Hah! Fools.

@brentjannereth3599 4 месяца назад

Dale sr got away with alot of dirty driving more than any of the other drivers ever did wich was not fair to the other drivers

@pulsarlights2825 4 месяца назад

Dale was hated for years, and it wasn't until Jeff Gordon started dominating that Dale got more popular

@jairret3640 4 месяца назад

Me and mark shling of witinting Iowa mark shling of woodbine Iowa jairret burgess sr of car number j6 of woodbine Iowa vs of witinting and woodbine Iowa

@deantait8326 4 месяца назад

Brett was the only Bodine I cared for … Geoff and Todd were talented but just obnoxious imo

@williambowen1771 4 месяца назад

Sounds like bodine s still scared of dale after 23 years.

@popeofwrenching4357 4 месяца назад

Dale wouldn’t have wrecked bodine so much , if he wasn’t always in the way .

@dano2099 4 месяца назад

Geoff Bodine had as good of car control as Dale Earnhardt I disagree. Dale Earnhardt was hands down a way better driver than Geoff Bodine!!

@tombaker6082 4 месяца назад

No he wasn't. Both were amazing. I grew up watching Geoff in modifieds. Those two were too MUCH alike in their driving which is why they had issues with each other.

@dano2099 4 месяца назад

@@tombaker6082 BS who’s got 7 cup championship Dale Earnhardt case closed!! Geoff Bodine is a buffoon and always will be!! lol 🤣

@Lester.M 4 месяца назад

DE was NASCAR’s poster boy so they let him get away with wrecking people all the time. If someone did it to him “how dare they!” How many times did DE wreck Rusty Wallace and absolutely no penalty was handed out.

@markaroberts1682 4 месяца назад

If’n Earnhardt SUCKS, Jr. SWALLOWS 😅😂😊

@pulsarlights2825 4 месяца назад

NASCAR is WWE on wheels, and did Geoff just confirm that? Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon had a lot of success because that what NASCAR wanted, true or false?

@kentpayne3947 3 месяца назад

Nascar was selling tickets by letting Earnhardt wreck everyone

@raymondlassor7155 4 месяца назад

kenny I'm done with you and this Dale Sr B.S. when does he become Dale Sr SR? there is Dale and Dale JR for us adults.

@nealdaleyjr7625 4 месяца назад

Live by the sword die by the sword. Dale ded...

@Ghostmotorfinger 4 месяца назад

We all die.

@nealdaleyjr7625 4 месяца назад

Not necessarily by the sword like Dale.

@shawnsteele4204 3 месяца назад

Bodine is a jealous crybaby

@charleswickline3865 4 месяца назад

It’s disrespectful to Dale Sr. to even have Blowbine on talking about it. Lost some respect for you on this one!!!!!

@KennyWallace36 4 месяца назад

Dale stories keep his great legacy alive

@charleswickline3865 4 месяца назад

@@KennyWallace36 Not when its people like Blowbine! Turns people off. Thanks for the response! Appreciate you!

@charleswickline3865 4 месяца назад

@@KennyWallace36 Not when its Blowdine. I was a big Dale Sr. fan and went to a lot of races. I haven't been to one since he left. Thanks for the response. Appreciate you !!

@docofswank88 4 месяца назад

@@charleswickline3865food for thought…how many races did you run in Cup?

@richardstephens5570 4 месяца назад

@@charleswickline3865 The truth hurts? Dale Sr. wasn't perfect. You're the disrespectful one calling him "Blowbine".

@coyboybc 4 месяца назад

Dale was a dirty driver ….he always got more camera time and media coverage than he deserved! I was never a dale fan and was glad when he was gone! People make an idol out of him are just brainwashed ! Geoff was better than dale as many other drivers in NASCAR ! But you know NASCAR was going to let whatever the number3 driver do whatever he wanted to ! Dale was just an evil person that loved attention. He was a narcissist that got his way .