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The Dale Jr. Download

89 - Bristol: When There's A Wheel, There's A Way

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. fights back to finish 16th despite early wheel problems at Bristol; Fans join in not only on Reaction Theatre but also on “Takes A Nation” presented by Nationwide.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:30.0

Hey everybody, it's DirtyMo Radio.

0:32.0

I'm just at home from Bristol.

0:33.0

What a long day.

0:35.0

We felt like we got the car pretty good during practice.

0:39.0

We didn't show up very fast, but we worked on the car and made a lot of changes.

0:44.0

It looked like the five was a pretty good car in practice, so we were reading all the lot of things he was doing.

0:49.0

And that was helping us.

0:50.0

And we felt like the car was going to be good.

0:52.0

When the race started, it was real fast.

0:55.0

And feeling like we was going to be fine.

0:58.0

And we had a loose wheel happen pretty early.

1:02.0

I don't think we even changed tires yet.

1:04.0

So, you know, that's just a weird thing.

1:06.0

Me and the five got together on the back straightaway.

1:08.0

I think I pinched him into the fence on the straightaway.

1:10.0

And we hit pretty hard, and I don't know if that knocked him bang wheel loose or what.

1:14.0

But, you know, wheel shook pretty bad.

1:16.0

And I waited until the last minute really to come down pit road.

1:22.0

So it tore the lugs up real bad.

1:25.0

When it was loose out on the track, and I waited too long.

1:29.0

So when they tried to put the next wheel on, they wouldn't tighten up.

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