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The Dale Jr. Download

The Magic Behind Dale Sr.'s Speed & Gus vs. The Snow

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It's beginning to look a lot like RACE SEASON! We are back in the swing of things, which means you have a Dirty Thirty coming your way, where we bring you the best, funniest, and most engaging parts of this week's shows in a supercharged 30-minute episode. To kick us off, Kelley Earnhardt Miller sits down with Marcus Smith to discuss the highly celebrated decision to swap out the ROVAL this fall for the Charlotte Oval, bringing back the coveted "Charlotte Fall Race" NASCAR fans have so dearly missed. After going over the logistics of the move, the two also discuss the ROVAL's future ... will it be back? Marcus has plenty to say on the topic.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, I'm Dela Hart Jr. and this is The Dirty 30. The best highlights from all of our

0:08.8

podcast this week, 30 minutes every single Friday, the Dirty 30 coming at you.

0:15.0

Let's get right to it.

0:16.9

Hey, everyone. It's Kelly Arnhart Miller here and welcome in to the RB Studio for another episode of the Dell Jr. download.

0:24.2

I won't be by myself, though.

0:25.8

In just a couple of minutes, Marcus Smith, president of Speedway Motorsports, will be joining.

0:30.2

And for a big announcement, although I'm sure a few of you could be guessing what that is.

0:35.9

So enough about that, Let's bring Marcus in.

0:39.5

So, you know, first things first, and I'm super curious about this from a team owner standpoint,

0:46.0

because when they announced or, you know, announcing the change with the roval, you know, that's a

0:52.8

race that a lot of times will run our fifth car and we'll have a

0:56.3

road course ringer, as they call them, right? And a sponsorship or something that comes together

1:01.4

because somebody says, I want to run a road course. And so with that news coming at this point in

1:06.8

the year, what is that like? Like what, you know, what brought that on? What's the time frame? How

1:13.3

does that come together like that? That's a great question. So we, I don't know, I haven't been

1:19.5

thinking about it. I was thinking about lots of other things in our business going into January

1:27.2

and coming out of December. But the Charlotte team was

1:30.5

having a strategic meeting. They were just kind of talking about your planning. And Jessica

1:37.0

Fickensure said... Smart lady. She's smart. She's smart. She said, what do you think about

1:43.0

going back to the Oval in October?

1:47.8

And, of course, it's not the first time I've heard that because Dale has said it many times.

1:54.0

And, you know, but when Jessica said it and kind of in the context of the whole group, I said, well, what do y'all think? Is it,

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