Becoming Earnhardt Vol. 4 - King Takes The Rook

The Dale Jr. Download

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Basking in the glory of his first NASCAR Cup victory, rookie Dale Earnhardt finds himself in the conversation of the top talents in the garage area. Not only has he put the heat on the rest of the rookie class with his triumph, but he’s put stock car racing’s veterans on notice: the kid from Kannapolis is the real deal. But following up his win would be no easy task, as the next event on the Cup schedule would take him to the track deemed Too Tough To Tame, and the Lady in Black had many hard lessons to teach an overconfident freshman.

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0:00.0	The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.
0:09.6	The name Dale Earnhardt means something different now.
0:13.3	Before it meant talented but unproven, scrappy, but unrefined.
0:19.9	Now, after winning his first cup race, it means favorite for a rookie of the year and a threat
0:26.6	for the overall championship.
0:28.7	That's even more alarming for Richard Petty, Darrowell Yarborough, and David Pearson,
0:33.1	and the Allisons.
0:34.8	The number two, ostling Racing team had unlocked a confidence
0:37.7	that only comes from victories, and the
0:39.9	1979 season was still young.
0:42.6	Crew member Doug Reichert remembers the immediate change.
0:46.0	You know, winning his momentum,
0:48.5	you know, when you finally know that you can
0:51.4	do it and you finally do it, that's a lot of confidence in that.
0:56.4	And from that point on,
0:58.0	we didn't go to the race to finish second.
1:00.7	Second's just the first loser.
1:03.1	So we always tried to win them all.
1:05.4	And I think that was Dale's mentality all along.
1:08.4	He didn't care what it took.
1:09.6	He was going to win them all.
1:15.4	Yeah. mentality all along. He didn't care what it took. He was going to win them all. All right.
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