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The Dale Jr. Download

Jack Sprague: Why I Hid After Retirement

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. welcomes NASCAR Truck Series pioneer Jack Sprague to the studio to learn about his humble beginnings in Michigan, and his path to becoming a NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you got done driving, what did you go do?

0:04.6

Hid.

0:05.5

Why?

0:09.2

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0:15.2

So, Jack Sprag is, uh, man, I'm gonna tell y'all.

0:20.4

I'm gonna talk to this about him. This guy

0:23.8

dominated the super late model scene at Concord Speedway in a series. He did the local racing there,

0:35.2

but also what they had was the big 10 series where they would

0:38.2

run 10 races throughout the year and they paid a lot extra money and it drew in a lot of people

0:42.6

from around the country to come try to win this money and man he he dominated so much so that he

0:50.1

had stereotyped himself as a Concord super late model winner.

0:57.2

They nicknamed him one track, Jack.

1:00.4

I'm serious.

1:02.0

And he goes into the Xfinity series and kind of couldn't get any traction.

1:07.1

And they said, yeah, it's only because he can race at Concord.

1:10.0

It's only because he got that car that

1:11.9

wins at Concord, and that's all he can do. Well, he finally dispelled that rumor as he gets into the

1:17.9

truck series and has an incredible career, and now he's in the conversations around being a

1:24.2

nomination, nominated for the Hall of Fame.

1:30.3

I grew up racing at Concord.

1:33.0

I went there in the 90s, early early 90s,

1:36.6

right when Jack was finishing up his sort of time as one of the dominant drivers at that racetrack.

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