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The Dale Jr. Download

275 - Rick Hendrick: I'm Not Gonna Let Him Fail

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Rick Hendrick get together for a much-anticipated tell-all interview. The driver and his former boss discuss Mr. H's beginnings in the sport, how Hendrick Motorsports nearly started with Richard Petty behind the wheel, the Gee family connection, the famed rental car ride with Geoff Bodine and Dale Earnhardt, and the meeting that changed their lives and Dale Jr.'s side-skirts forever. They also reveal classic stories of the legendary Harry Hyde and how The Intimidator was so mad at Ken Schrader that he didn't speak to him for a year. DJD tackles topics like Tony Eury Jr's first doctors trip and the big announcement of who's wheeling the JR Motorsports Late Model at Martinsville. Rick Hendrick sticks around for a special edition of Odd History that includes Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

0:07.0

Dirty Mo Media. Dirty Mo.

0:12.0

Hey everybody, it's Deltjunter back again for another episode of the Deltjunter download.

0:16.6

I got Mike Davis here with me. Matthew Dillner, Leah is back. Welcome back.

0:21.4

Everybody, be happy. That's right. We missed her last week. Our guest today, Rick Hendrick.

0:26.9

I mean, this should have been one of the first guests. You think it would have been, right?

0:30.3

Anyhow, it's going to be a lot of fun. We're going to dive in. Let's get started.

0:33.9

All right guys, well, we had a pretty eventful week. Went to Richmond for the race weekend.

0:41.3

Yeah. I flew with the race winner, Martin Triggs Jr. there and home. Pretty interesting.

0:46.7

I'd have been fine.

0:47.7

So, yeah, we're pals. And I try not, you know, when I'm watching the race, I don't play favorites.

0:55.1

I don't pull for Martin to win. If that makes sense, I don't care one way or another have who wins, right?

1:04.7

That's great to see good people do good things. And I like when Martin's happy, whatever makes Martin happy,

1:09.5

because I like him as a person. But really, what he does on the track makes no difference to me.

1:13.3

Right.

1:14.3

But it was interesting being on that side of it. So he wins the race. I know, all right,

1:19.5

I don't need to be in a hurry to get out of here. So I collected all my stuff in the booth

1:23.3

and I went down to the media center and I sat in the media center and waited on them to finish whatever they did.

1:29.7

So they go, I'm sitting in the media center and here comes the crew chief and the owner Joe Gibbs,

1:35.7

Cole Pern, they do their media press conference real quick. And then here comes the race winner and he comes in and does his

1:42.9

and then a Tyler Overstreet who used to work with us and used to host, help me host this podcast was sitting in there.

1:49.5

And I go, all right, where y'all going next? And he goes, well, we'll go out and they'll take the pick.

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