Robin Pemberton: Investigating MWR’s Spingate, Boys Have At It & Bulls*** Penalties

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5 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets a true look into the inner workings of NASCAR when he sits down with longtime crew chief and official Robin Pemberton. The two discuss Robin's early days working with legends like Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, Mark Martin & Rusty Wallace. They also go into detail on his time as NASCAR's VP of Competition, which involved MWR's controversial "Spingate," creating the modern-day NASCAR Playoff format, and much more.

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0:00.0	So about 10 o'clock in the morning the phone rings, and it's, and it's Mike.
0:05.0	I said, what's going on? What's going on?
0:08.0	You guys have got fricking trouble.
0:10.0	Well, when the 15th bond and this happened, I'm like, we gotta do an investigation.
0:15.0	I said, okay.
0:17.0	I was in a room bigger than this room that they rented for me. I didn't go to anything. I ate
0:22.4	breakfast, lunch, and dinner in that room. Listen to all the radio transmissions. It's the worst thing
0:28.0	you could do at the worst time. Sure. So it was going to be freaking monstrous huge.
0:33.8	The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.
0:39.8	Hey, everybody's time for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download the guest segment here.
0:44.1	And Robin Pemberton is the guest.
0:45.8	Robin was a crew member, crew chief, worked with the Petty's, Rusty Wallace, Dygard, Ray Mock.
0:53.7	He's done it all.
0:54.7	And then he goes into competition to work with NASCAR.
0:59.0	He experienced a lot of things working with NASCAR in terms of competition.
1:04.0	We had Spendgate and a bunch of different things happening while he was overseeing sort of the rules.
1:10.2	And he's heavily involved in all of those decisions
1:12.8	and things that happened back then. This is going to be a lot of fun. I know Robin really well.
1:18.4	We're very close, and he's got a gray heart, good guy, and he's had a heck of a career,
1:26.5	you know, just a lot of different things going on.
1:28.3	Also, you know, just looking forward to seeing what we can get into.
1:31.6	There's going to be a lot here.
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