Before we start the show, I just want to take a moment to remember a friend of the motor sports community, Nikki Hayden.

He died this week at the age of 35. He was born on July 30, 1981.

And was a very successful motorcycle racer and just an all-around incredible guy.

He'll be missed and our thoughts go out to the Hayden family and all Nikki's friends that he made all across the globe.

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

Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr. back for another episode of The Dale Jr. Download with me always is my co-host and

editor and producer and decent friend. I can't give you all the credit. That was enough. Tyler Overstreet. Hello.

We got a good show today. I see your shirt. We've got a heck of a crowd. Yeah, there's lots of folks out here. I appreciate everybody for showing up.

We're going up this Charlotte week. Everybody's in town to see the races over the next couple of weeks. We get quite a bit of traffic here at the gift shop over at Junior Motorsports. It's great to see everybody this morning.

Let's get the show started. All right, so we do the post-race periscopes every week. If you don't know what periscope is, you can download it if you get a Twitter account. Do you have to have a Twitter account?

Yeah, yeah. Well, periscope basically is something we've been doing post-race. We talked a lot about, it's a great way, I think, for us to talk to the fans after the races and kind of let them know exactly what we're thinking right after the finish.

It's kind of like a podcast because you're controlling your message. Good point. I'm putting it out there. So we talked a little bit about the All Star race in our periscope. Once we got to the house, it was not a very good night for us.

We finished 18th. We didn't use our green tires. Yeah, were you surprised or would it have mattered? It might not have mattered. I don't think it mattered. Our car wasn't very good. We unloaded on Friday and the first thing out of Greg's mouth was we were four tenths off the pace. So what's going on? What do we need to work on? The car was really, really uncomfortable.

We had one particular run in practice that actually was pretty good speed wise. That surprised me because I thought that that was going to be how the car drove in the race. But it didn't drive very good in the race. We struggled all night. There wasn't a middle or top groove for anyone to try or work on.

This is something that I don't think a lot of people know. They put some that THC VHT.

VHT, sorry. They put like Bristol. Yeah. That sticky stuff. They put it on the bottom groove. It's Charlotte. I noticed when I was out there on the racetrack that there was some stain around turn one and two.

So this stain mark around the bottom of the track. When you got off a turn two, this stain mark actually turned around and came back the other way.

It's like somebody was driving this pattern over and over and over and over and over. I'm thinking they've put something on this racetrack. That's the only explanation for it.

Both ends though. I couldn't see the stain in three and four but I talked to Charlotte and RGBW officials and they confirmed to me that they did put that down on the racetrack in the bottom.

That's why that track was a one-grue racetrack. Did they say what the logic was? They did not. Maybe they didn't know. They're like, hey, this worked at Bristol.

That's what I think I'm very confused about is. This is no excuse for how we ran.

The race was described as kind of boring. It was definitely one groove. There was no middle or high side for anybody to use.

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