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The Dale Jr. Download

Robin Pemberton Part 2: The Jet Dryer Incident, Indy Tire Disaster & Hidden Fist Fights

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. welcomes longtime Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton back to the studio to discuss Robin's time working at NASCAR. The two discuss hot topics in the world of NASCAR during Robin's time as an executive, such as the Playoff format, the 4-car cap on teams, the Car of Tomorrow, the 2008 Indianapolis tire debacle, and the 2012 Daytona 500 fire situation.

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0:00.0

Juan Pablo hit the jet dryer.

0:02.0

Hit the jet dryer.

0:03.0

So the police come and got me and run me around to the back because they turned the lights on and I'm back there.

0:09.0

It smelled like a 747 crash back there, well, all the fuel all over.

0:13.0

And it rained, right?

0:15.0

Darrell criticized us on national TV for not putting out the fire.

0:19.0

They're not shooting at the fire. I didn't give a

0:21.5

if the truck burned to the ground. We're trying to save the racetracks. We're going to run a race.

0:26.2

The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.

0:31.7

Hey everybody. It's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download.

0:35.1

And our guest today is Robin Pemberton. He's been on the show

0:37.9

before and just a few weeks ago in fact. I thought that his story was so unique and he was really

0:44.2

such a great storyteller that we would have him back while all this was kind of fresh on our minds.

0:49.9

We spent a lot of time kind of bouncing around but mainly talking about his role as a crew chief,

0:56.7

his beginning role in motorsports and kind of all of that.

1:01.1

We did dip into his time at NASCAR, working with NASCAR as a member of the organization,

1:08.1

but that's kind of what we're going to touch more on today.

1:10.7

There was some key moments in the sport that happened around when he was part of that,

1:14.8

and just kind of curious as to what he might remember or, you know, some of the things that

1:20.7

he might be able to share with us today.

1:22.1

Such a great show in episode one with Robin, so episode two should be great.

1:25.7

Let's get started.

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