Danny Lawrence: The Goodwrench Shirt is Better Than a Tux

The Dale Jr. Download

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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As Dale Earnhardt Jr. begins a new season of the Download, he welcomes longtime Richard Childress Racing employee Danny Lawrence into the studio for an in-depth look at the past. Having recently celebrated his 40th anniversary with RCR, Danny currently holds the post as vice president of the team’s technical alliances and director of their O’Reilly Auto Parts Series program. He first came into the organization assisting his friend Bobby Moody in the body shop, and before long, he was hired full-time, assisting Lou LaRosa in the engine department. Danny explains that when the team expanded to a two-car operation in the late 90s, Dale Earnhardt Sr. expressed that he wanted his own, separate engine shop. Danny was promoted to Chief Engine Builder in 1998, and his first attempt in the position was the historic Daytona 500 win.

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0:00.0	You were going to tell another story. So Andy Petrie shows up at RCR. He's going to be the crew chief. He comes in and he's been there for about a week and he says, okay, now show me all stuff. What are you talking about? All your tricks, your magic, your, you're all the things, all the cheating stuff that y'all did. So Glenn grabs a hold of them, carries them over there.
0:21.3	See that seat right there?
0:22.8	That's where all our magic is the guy sits in that seat.
0:27.1	Following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.
0:31.1	Hey, everybody, it's Dillon Hart Jr.
0:32.8	And welcome to the R.B. Studio for the new season of the Dale Jr. Download. This is a guest segment.
0:39.4	And we have a pretty incredible guest coming in here. I'm pretty excited about this to kick the
0:43.6	season off. It's one of my favorite people that's in the industry today, Danny Lawrence.
0:49.2	Danny Lawrence was part of the RCR Black number three, Wrangler number three. He was part of the RCR Black number three, Rangler number three.
0:57.6	He was part of that group, part of that team, one of the engine builders at the track,
1:03.1	working on the car.
1:05.9	He's been in my life and a part of my life and an influence on my life for decades.
1:12.2	And even today,
1:18.0	he's one of the few guys that I still see around that was part of that team. And I see him every time I go to the racetrack. He's, he's, kind of runs the Xfinity program for RCR and a lot of
1:23.8	the partnerships. But there's not a, there is not a moment if I see him that we do not talk,
1:34.3	that we do not, we don't walk by each other and wave and nod, none of that.
1:38.3	Every time I see this man, we stop and we shake hands or we pat each other on the back
1:43.2	or we say, hey, how's it going?
1:44.6	You're doing all right?
1:47.0	And I love it.
1:48.0	And I love that relationship.
1:49.8	It's important to me.
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