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The Dale Jr. Download

143 - Have No Fear, Gordon Is Here

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. speaks to his appreciation for Jeff Gordon, praises the good-will gesture of his race team, and gives a candid update on his recovery. Team 88 car chief Travis Mack discusses the complicated process of preparing to race with a different driver.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

Dale, we're thinking of you.

0:07.0

I'll play to your, uh, thank you for the progress this week.

0:09.0

Definitely think about that.

0:10.0

I'm gonna try to take advantage of this opportunity that, uh, I have it this time.

0:14.0

I'd give you guys the best of my kids.

0:22.0

Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr.

0:24.0

Uh, Sunday evening after watching the Indie Race.

0:29.0

We're Jeff Gordon, and the guys got to the finish line with the Golf World Tires on it.

0:37.0

That must have been a real challenge all weekend.

0:40.0

Um, you know, we've, we changed the cars quite a bit since the last time.

0:48.0

Jeff's drove him, and, uh, the heat all weekend, it's just miserable, uh, in practice.

0:58.0

And, uh, in practice and in the race especially obviously, uh, they talked about that quite a bit.

1:04.0

It's pretty bad there, but I, you know, Jeff and those guys, we talked all weekend, and, um, I didn't think I could be as helpful.

1:17.0

As I was, uh, with New Hampshire, because I tested New Hampshire, but, um, you know, seemed like Greg and those guys had some great ideas on what they were doing with the car.

1:27.0

And Jeff had a lot of great ideas and thoughts about the team.

1:34.0

I think another week with those guys that, Pokemon will be interesting.

1:39.0

And I can't wait to keep, uh, talking to him and debriefing with him throughout the week.

1:46.0

On what, uh, he thinks about the team, what he thinks I, you know, I can do better, uh, and how the team can get better.

1:54.0

So, it's awesome having a guy with his experience step in.

2:00.0

It reminds me of, uh, years and years ago, teams would go testing at a racetrack, uh, you know, and you might see, uh, dozen teams testing at the racetrack.

2:14.0

And drivers would actually swap cars.

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