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The Dale Jr. Download

126 - Property Damage, Courtesy of California

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Travis Peterson, engineer on the No. 88 Nationwide Chevy, weighs in on Sunday’s race at Auto Club Speedway and what the team is working on during their off week. Reaction Theatre is very angry about the untimely caution.

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0:00.0

This is Dale Jr., and you're listening to Dirty Mo Radio.

0:05.0

I don't know what I've done, I mean I had 41 just kind of pulled right up there.

0:09.0

I was all in it quicker than him, so I couldn't react fast enough for that.

0:17.0

Hey everybody, it's Jr. Boost Auto Club Speedway.

0:21.0

Yeah, that was a pretty good race.

0:24.0

We had a lot of fun. The car was fun to drive.

0:27.0

Auto Club Speedway is a pretty fun racetrack because it's an old surface.

0:35.0

We run against the wall and you can run and mill the corner in the bottom.

0:38.0

It's a lot of fun. We were able to move around.

0:41.0

But anyhow, we thought we had a pretty good car in the second practice of the last practice Saturday.

0:46.0

I was looking forward to the race and seeing how the car was.

0:50.0

When the race started we had a really bad push, just a terrible push.

0:54.0

We couldn't go anywhere just waiting on the front to turn.

0:58.0

Waiting on the front to turn every corner. Just a real bad tight.

1:01.0

Kurt Busch was going by us. He was coming from the back because he had started in a backup car.

1:07.0

I guess he thought he was kind of as clear for a momentary split second there.

1:18.0

But I didn't think he was going to just come up in front of me and I had to lift all the way out of gas.

1:24.0

The etiquette there is to leave an outside lane for the guy who's going about 10 or 15 miles faster than you.

1:31.0

But sometimes you don't. Sometimes other guys don't.

1:37.0

He didn't. I smashed him in the back. I didn't want to smash him into the back.

1:41.0

I didn't want to tear my car up.

1:43.0

That hurt both of us. He hurt him pretty bad.

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