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The Dale Jr. Download

My Experience As Dale Jr.'s Boss - Rick Hendrick on DJD Classics

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

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58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

No team in NASCAR has achieved the same level of success as Hendrick Motorsports. In this DJD Classic, which originally aired 9/23/19, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his former boss, Rick Hendrick, sit down for an in-depth discussion about Rick's origins in motorsports, how he built up NASCAR's winningest team, and his plans for sustaining excellence in the future. Hear Rick recount the famous rental car ride between Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine that was orchestrated by Mr. Bill France himself. Plus, what did Kenny Schrader do with Dale Jr. that made Dale Sr. mad enough to not speak with Schrader for a full year? The stories are plenty, and the laughs are hearty - nobody in NASCAR can replicate the subdued humor of Mr. H.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Following is a production of Dirty Home Media.

0:15.7

Hey, let's rewind at DJD Classic.

0:19.0

Enjoy.

0:20.0

All right, so Rick Hendrick, he's in the house. He's at the table.

0:23.3

A lot of people excited about this one. I'm excited about this one. Thanks for coming, Rick.

0:27.6

It's great to be here. Yeah. I was wondering why you never asked me.

0:32.0

All right, you kidding me? You're a hard guy to track down. You're busy. So a lot of places we can go with this.

0:39.4

Yeah.

0:39.8

But the one thing that I always feel compelled to tell people about Rick when, you know,

0:46.9

talking about our relationship and going to drive for him and, you know, why I decided to go to HMS and all those things is I feel like a lot of people don't know the family connection with Rick and my grandfather, Robert G.

1:05.0

And so, you know, people just think that I know Rick from NASCAR and cup racing and, but it goes

1:14.2

way beyond that. So you and my grandfather, Robert G, on my mom's side, he was a body man in

1:22.4

business and uncle Robert G. Jr. works here at Junior Motorsports. Jimmy G., his brother, my uncle also, worked here as well.

1:31.1

All those guys are in racing.

1:34.0

Y'all grew up in the same town.

1:36.6

Yep, we grew up in South Hill, Virginia.

1:38.8

And when I was 15 years old, I went to Robert's Body Shop,

1:43.9

and he put a scoop on my 65 Chevel. A hood scoop. A hood scoop. What'd you want that on there for? Because it was cool back then. So he had a body shop. How old was he then at the time? Colley, I don't know. You'll have to do the math. I don't know. I mean, he was old enough to own a body shop, I guess, right? Well, it was called a flying A station, and a couple of the drag race guys were there,

2:04.8

and Robert, and I was almost afraid to go in there to ask him, would he do this scoop on my hood?

2:11.1

And he did, and I met him then.

2:13.7

Then when I moved to Charlotte in 1977, Robert was running a dirt car. He came over and he said,

2:21.4

hey, I've got this dirt car. How about helping me out? And so we kind of rekindle that relationship

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