Scott Speed: Red Bull, F1, and Why He Left the Driver's Seat

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a motorsports fan, you’ve probably heard the name Scott Speed. From his journey through Formula 1, ARCA, NASCAR, and Rallycross as part of the Red Bull family, the three-time X Games gold medalist has sure done it all. On this week's episode, Dale Jr. sat down with the former Formula 1 racer to learn about his career journey. Though Dale and Scott shared the track for many years, they never got the chance to sit down and chat. Today, that changes. What spawned from a love of racing video games and an admiration for his father's own career quickly grew into national go-kart success and a call from Red Bull. Scott was quickly thrust into the Formula One pipeline, moving overseas and becoming Red Bull’s test driver for F1 as a teenager. Scott became the first American to compete in F1 since Michael Andretti.

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0:00.0	The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.
0:06.7	You're Dale Jr.
0:09.9	Should I say it?
0:11.3	It's Dale Jr. podcast, I got to say it.
0:15.7	Hey, everybody.
0:16.5	Stale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download here.
0:19.6	It's Wednesday of the guest segment, and we got a great guest coming in here today. Scott Speed for episode 701.
0:24.9	Thanks for joining us here in the Arby's studio. Don't forget about Arby's new meat in three
0:29.0	box. You get more meal for your money at Arby's. We have the meats. Scott has been in the driver
0:37.3	development side of things over the last several years with Josh Wise.
0:41.2	They worked predominantly with Chevrolet drivers to coach them up, make them athletes, make them great at reaction time, teach them how to be grown adults, teach them good racecraft, all these things.
0:54.9	And that business is booming.
0:58.4	And it's really developed into a very thorough, intricate sort of a bit of, it's a bit of a college, I would say.
1:07.1	I don't know what you call it.
1:08.0	But they got a lot of drivers involved in that,
1:11.6	and Scott's been part of that for quite a while now.
1:16.7	But before that, Scott raced in NASCAR, before that,
1:20.9	ARCA, before that, he's an F1 series.
1:24.2	And many, many other things before.
1:26.8	I don't know all of Scott's career.
1:32.0	I do know that he had some spectacular moments at times and some good success.
1:40.8	Rally Cross being one of those after his cup career was over.
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