539 - Elton Sawyer: Tires, Hybrids & The NextGen Era

The Dale Jr. Download

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. sits down with NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer to discuss the current state of NASCAR officiating, the NextGen car, tires, and more - while also taking a deep dive into Sawyer’s own career as a driver. The conversation begins with Sawyer’s early days behind the wheel and the story behind meeting Elton’s now wife and former race car driver, Patty Moise. The two discuss his time racing in the Busch Series, along with his short-run racing in Cup. Sawyer breaks down the end of his racing career, and his transition to working on the competition side of the sport. Sawyer then provides a “peek behind the curtain” and shares what his day-to-day looks like as the SVP of Competition. Sawyer explains the role of a race director, how NASCAR evaluates penalties, and how the appeals process works. He also breaks down what caused the tires at Bristol to react the way he did, shares what they hope to achieve with multiple tire compounds at the All-Star Race, and reveals the potential of Hybrids breaking into the sport.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Dale Jr back again for another episode of the Dale
0:05.4	Junior Download here in the Bojangle studio we have the ally guest segment
0:08.9	coming today Elton Sawyer he's coming into the studio and Elton raced at the short tracks at Langley and
0:17.8	then grew up racing in the Bush series in the 80s. I raced against Elton Sawyer in the Bush
0:22.2	series in the late 90s had a lot of fun competing with him
0:25.8	Married to Patty, and maybe he'll let us know what Patty's been up to here lately and now he's working for NASCAR
0:31.3	So got to talk about that. So let's get this started.
0:38.2	The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. Media. Del Jener, Del Jener, D. Jener.
0:45.0	Back again.
0:50.0	Everybody is D'L Jener.
0:51.0	Back again for another episode of the Dell's in your download.
0:54.0	The Bochtenel studio.
0:57.0	Hey everybody's
0:58.0	Jelgeny.
1:01.0	Elton saw your Adam Stern had some tweets about hybrids. Where do you think we are in that?
1:05.2	It is conversation. We need a platform that will invite new OEMs to come and
1:10.2	participate. The one thing that they're not going to do is they're not going to build a VE8 pushrod engine. All right back in here in the Bojangle studio for another day
1:30.1	Bringing the ally guest segment to you every single week.
1:34.5	I wanted Elton Sawyer on the show.
1:39.9	I'm the one that takes responsibility for this guest.
1:44.0	I get most of guests on this show, to be honest with you.
1:47.1	Now, our team will come and say, hey, what about this?
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