Even after 17+ years with the loss of Dale E, I still miss seeing that black #3 Goodwrench car on the track with 'the man in black' behind the wheel ! Rooted for him since '85 and was devastated (like so many others) when he was killed! Sadly missed ! He was one of my heroes. And now with Dale Jr retired [another one of my heroes], in all honesty, my interest in Nascar racing has plummeted ! Forever a fan of Dale E and Dale Jr. !! No other driver can replace them !
Larry Mac was in a no-win situation when he was Dale's crew chief. If they had won a bunch of races together everybody would have said, "Well, Dale is supposed to win!" But since they didn't have much success everybody said, "Well, I guess Larry Mac ain't as good as we thought he was." According to Larry Mac's autobiography he & Dale had a chance to talk a few months before his death & Dale told him during their time together he was still suffering from the effects from that Talladega crash from '96 & he felt that he & Larry Mac never got a fair shot with each other.
@@tomdalfonzo9959 As Larry Mac has always said, "I was just lucky enough to be his crew chief when he didn't run out of gas, didn't blow a tire, didn't hit a seagull." If they were only supposed to win one point race together, they certainly picked the right one!!!
@@joshowenby6408 Larry Mac was a great crew chief, as evidenced by his work at Robert Yates Racing with Davey Allison and Ernie Irvan. It is a real shame that he and Earnhardt only won once together.
@@tomdalfonzo9959 I feel the same way. I remember when it was first announced that they were joining forces everybody thought it was going to be the greatest combo since Lennon & McCartney. As far as the Yates era is concerned I still remember when the team announced they wouldn't run Pocono after Davey's death. Larry Mac came up to the mic & tried to say a few words but he couldn't. He knew he had lost his golden ticket.
I quit watching Nascar because of all the B.S. that changed its sad because my father and Bobby Allison where business partners in the cellular business Bobby Allison wireless inc. I was big in Nascar but I have not seen a race in years and no plans to.
NASCAR never was the same after Dale died. One of the last guys who drove in a rich sport but acted like just like a regular guy off the track and appealed to the working man. There isn't an enforcer these days, to keep those youngsters in line.
In 2000, he ended up 2nd place in points, behind Bobby LaBonte. He was on his way to his 8th, but the good lord wanted Dale. Just goes to show, nothing will deny gods will. People say, it was a tragedy. He was killed doing something he loved. He knew the risk involved. He even said, if he was killed riding a farm tractor that flipped over, that’s a tragedy. Dying in a wreck, driving a stock car during a race, wasn’t.
I was born in 91. Racing in my blood. Dad and granddad both lived and breathed GM racing. I was a kid at this time but I remember all this stuff in the background. Remember my dad and his friends talking about why the 3 wasn’t performing. Being able to come back and watch these interviews is amazing to me
Darn darn darn, I KNOW Dale had that 8th championship coming! After finishing 2nd in the points in 2000, and his last FIVE wins happening in his last two seasons... Dale was back! Had he not died, if he hadn't gotten another championship, he sure woulda made it look good!
Wish I could find more stuff like this anytime I put in Dale Earnhardt on RUclips it pulls up his death and all that idc how many times I see it every time I see a video about his death it tire,s me up on inside cause the fact the person he was he knew what it was like to struggle to pay the bills like most of us that works our ass,s off he earned everything he has Dale Earnhardt will always will be my hero
Plenty of great old stuff talked about at Dale Jr's, Dirty Mo Media channel on here! I only watch the talks on there and then go listen to his podcasts to hear the whole thing, as his youtubes are only snippets from the podcasts!
Like everyone else I wish Dale was still here & maybe like in the booth or something but definitely here to help Jr with his career. Dale is the reason why I was a fan of nascar until of course 2001 & then the sport just changed & not for the good really. The good years were in the '90s but they're long long gone
Yeah totally, he was the man & the man that made nascar so popular in the time he was racing & I definitely wish Jr the best & I hope he makes his old man proud
That’s weird how dale says “4, 5, or 6 years left in Winston cup racing”. Which is realistically about how long he had after this interview. It would’ve been about 4 years until he passed away
I thought so too. That, plus him saying he couldn't put a number on when he would retire. Eerily prophetic. I watched him since i was probably 12yrs old and now Im older than he was in this interview. He would have been 69 yrs old in April of 2020. Hundreds of thousands miss him everytime they watch a race, including me.
@@lskiller1903 exactly or Yarbrough. Or petty. He was good but their been better who could out drive all others with out having to try to kill them to win an ultimately he killed his self with his bullshit driving
@@slickwillie9542 well if he could then why the hell did he have to dump people why didn't he jus out drive them.he wouldn't make a pimple on pearson's ass
@@slickwillie9542 he couldn't catch pearson or petty to dump them.im not saying he wasn't a great driver but he wasn't the best ever pearson would jus drive off an leave you when it was time earnhardt couldn't do that so he would dump you that don't take talent to dump someone it takes a jackass
He was simply himself and real!!!! Will forever love him so!!!! His name will live on!!!! Thank God for his family and friends and being here for us all!!!! He was auto racing and family too!!!!!
For Christmas 2000 my wife got me a leather jacket with goodwrench on it, a Earnhardt jacket, I love that jacket and wear it proudly, NEVER liked Austin Dillon, he should NOT have the 3 car that # should have been retired!!!
That wouldn't have done anything it might have even been worse with a full face it probly woulda drove yhe front of the helmet thru his face.he the only thing that could have saved Earnhardt was for him to have had his seat belt properly installed and driving like you should be driving not trying to block the track and show your ass he got his self killed
Seat belt was cut, feds were coming down on him for taxes....lets put it this way, he is alive and well setting on a beach somewhere sipping a Budwiser with Tupac and Elvis
Switching his helmet wouldnt have kept his spinal chord from severing. Had they had the HANS he would 100% be alive. That or if Shrader was 10 more feet ahead of where he was beside Dale it wouldnt have sent Dale into that deathly angle.
I just never really liked the Larry McReynolds and Dale pairing, even though they won a Daytona 500 together they never really could get it done anywhere else and while they may have had a good relationship, they just could never get on the same page. I liked it a lot better when they switched and put Dale with Kevin Hamlin and Larry McReynolds with Mike Skinner and both drivers just had better outings after the switch.
The way he sat in a racecar was different than any other driver - his eye level wasn't much over the dashboard - It had to have contribute to the severity of the accident
Even after 17+ years with the loss of Dale E, I still miss seeing that black #3 Goodwrench car on the track with 'the man in black' behind the wheel ! Rooted for him since '85 and was devastated (like so many others) when he was killed! Sadly missed ! He was one of my heroes. And now with Dale Jr retired [another one of my heroes], in all honesty, my interest in Nascar racing has plummeted ! Forever a fan of Dale E and Dale Jr. !! No other driver can replace them !
I agree with you 100 percent
I wish both davey and dale were still around
I wish he was still alive. Dale was everybody's hero. My first real vivid memory of nascar was him winning the Daytona 500.
I wish Larry McReynolds still had hair.
No he wasn't everybody's hero, David Pearson was my hero.!!
Larry Mac was in a no-win situation when he was Dale's crew chief. If they had won a bunch of races together everybody would have said, "Well, Dale is supposed to win!" But since they didn't have much success everybody said, "Well, I guess Larry Mac ain't as good as we thought he was." According to Larry Mac's autobiography he & Dale had a chance to talk a few months before his death & Dale told him during their time together he was still suffering from the effects from that Talladega crash from '96 & he felt that he & Larry Mac never got a fair shot with each other.
maybe... respectful reply & insight...
At least Larry Mac helped Earnhardt finally win the Daytona 500.
@@tomdalfonzo9959 As Larry Mac has always said, "I was just lucky enough to be his crew chief when he didn't run out of gas, didn't blow a tire, didn't hit a seagull." If they were only supposed to win one point race together, they certainly picked the right one!!!
@@joshowenby6408 Larry Mac was a great crew chief, as evidenced by his work at Robert Yates Racing with Davey Allison and Ernie Irvan. It is a real shame that he and Earnhardt only won once together.
@@tomdalfonzo9959 I feel the same way. I remember when it was first announced that they were joining forces everybody thought it was going to be the greatest combo since Lennon & McCartney. As far as the Yates era is concerned I still remember when the team announced they wouldn't run Pocono after Davey's death. Larry Mac came up to the mic & tried to say a few words but he couldn't. He knew he had lost his golden ticket.
Shame that he never got a chance to meet Isla Rose, Amy and enjoy it all.
It's a shame that Dale didn't get a chance to retire, and win the coveted 8th championship
2001 would have been it, I really believe that
I don’t think Dale would like the way that NASCAR is today with stage racing
I quit watching Nascar because of all the B.S. that changed its sad because my father and Bobby Allison where business partners in the cellular business Bobby Allison wireless inc. I was big in Nascar but I have not seen a race in years and no plans to.
I agree! Dale might not been the best driver but he was the greatest human being on the track.
NASCAR never was the same after Dale died. One of the last guys who drove in a rich sport but acted like just like a regular guy off the track and appealed to the working man. There isn't an enforcer these days, to keep those youngsters in line.
No joke. I would love to see what Dale would say about guys like Kyle Bush and Joey Logano.
Chris Brackin Sr would applaud Logano and had a sit down with Kyle, Kurt and perhaps Stewart.
In 2000, he ended up 2nd place in points, behind Bobby LaBonte. He was on his way to his 8th, but the good lord wanted Dale. Just goes to show, nothing will deny gods will. People say, it was a tragedy. He was killed doing something he loved. He knew the risk involved. He even said, if he was killed riding a farm tractor that flipped over, that’s a tragedy. Dying in a wreck, driving a stock car during a race, wasn’t.
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Pretty sure dying in front of everyone and shitting your pants is pretty embarrassing.
I was born in 91. Racing in my blood. Dad and granddad both lived and breathed GM racing.
I was a kid at this time but I remember all this stuff in the background. Remember my dad and his friends talking about why the 3 wasn’t performing.
Being able to come back and watch these interviews is amazing to me
Darn darn darn, I KNOW Dale had that 8th championship coming! After finishing 2nd in the points in 2000, and his last FIVE wins happening in his last two seasons... Dale was back!
Had he not died, if he hadn't gotten another championship, he sure woulda made it look good!
Never be another like # 3 best of the best. Dale loved racing so much he took it with him on that last turn..
He said "age isn't a factor yet, it may be three years down the road", a week before his 46th birthday..its odd that he chose that number.
I will never stop missing him.
1/27/21 I will never forget Dale not one day goes by. I MISS him terribly
TNN the Nashville network...the good ol'days. I'm sure where ever Dale went he's showing someone how to drive. Rest in horsepower Mr.Earnhardt.
Wish I could find more stuff like this anytime I put in Dale Earnhardt on RUclips it pulls up his death and all that idc how many times I see it every time I see a video about his death it tire,s me up on inside cause the fact the person he was he knew what it was like to struggle to pay the bills like most of us that works our ass,s off he earned everything he has Dale Earnhardt will always will be my hero
Plenty of great old stuff talked about at Dale Jr's, Dirty Mo Media channel on here! I only watch the talks on there and then go listen to his podcasts to hear the whole thing, as his youtubes are only snippets from the podcasts!
Dale: "It's just not comfortable"
I was never a fan of him ,but I did have respect for him and his talent.
Nascar was never the same.
Dale is still and will always be the man.
The day we lost him I was 12 and I cried for so long. I just couldn't believe it.
Very humble man.
Cocky or Driven = it was Driven...
If he would have never been killed he probably would have retired in 2004-05 I think
Like everyone else I wish Dale was still here & maybe like in the booth or something but definitely here to help Jr with his career. Dale is the reason why I was a fan of nascar until of course 2001 & then the sport just changed & not for the good really. The good years were in the '90s but they're long long gone
If Dale was still around, he would tell Brian France exactly where to stick it. He would not tolerate these new rules AT ALL!!!
Yeah totally, he was the man & the man that made nascar so popular in the time he was racing & I definitely wish Jr the best & I hope he makes his old man proud
I think he would be right proud of Dale Jr.
Tony Wood, without a doubt in the back of my mind. He'd be very damn proud of Dale Jr & his eldest grandson.
@@TonyWud like he wasn't proud of Dale jr before he died.!
That’s weird how dale says “4, 5, or 6 years left in Winston cup racing”. Which is realistically about how long he had after this interview. It would’ve been about 4 years until he passed away
I thought so too. That, plus him saying he couldn't put a number on when he would retire. Eerily prophetic. I watched him since i was probably 12yrs old and now Im older than he was in this interview. He would have been 69 yrs old in April of 2020. Hundreds of thousands miss him everytime they watch a race, including me.
He was the best racer ever, and a good man.
Guess you have never heard of David Pearson.!!
@@lskiller1903 exactly or Yarbrough. Or petty. He was good but their been better who could out drive all others with out having to try to kill them to win an ultimately he killed his self with his bullshit driving
@@brianbooher7318 bullshit driving he could out drive them in there time but they could not out drive him in his
@@slickwillie9542 well if he could then why the hell did he have to dump people why didn't he jus out drive them.he wouldn't make a pimple on pearson's ass
@@slickwillie9542 he couldn't catch pearson or petty to dump them.im not saying he wasn't a great driver but he wasn't the best ever pearson would jus drive off an leave you when it was time earnhardt couldn't do that so he would dump you that don't take talent to dump someone it takes a jackass
He was simply himself and real!!!! Will forever love him so!!!! His name will live on!!!! Thank God for his family and friends and being here for us all!!!! He was auto racing and family too!!!!!
He was such a badass.
Miss 90s nascar
I love Dale Earnhardt❤
Dale Earnhardt #3 forever
For Christmas 2000 my wife got me a leather jacket with goodwrench on it, a Earnhardt jacket, I love that jacket and wear it proudly, NEVER liked Austin Dillon, he should NOT have the 3 car that # should have been retired!!!
My old man looks like Dale Sr 😂
RIP sir, they don't make racers like you anymore.
Godspeed.
Larry McRenoylds said “I am human” but you can tell he is a droid did you see him glitching?
The video is the one glitching.
God put Dale Earnhardt Sr in retirment. R.I.P. 3
So this was 1997. He wanted to race another 5+ years. So that would mean he wanted to race into his early 50's. Not too far past 2001. That is sad....
I sure miss Dale Sr 😢
They’ll never be another one.
Boy he rode low in em cars
Yep, almost sat on the floor... 😎
and he did win Daytona 2001
The car he owned won Daytona, but not him.
Yo Daddy
Dale Earnhardt Sr won the 1998 Daytona international speedway 500...
Yo Daddy:
Michael Waltrip win the 2001 Daytona race, car owned by Dale Earnhardt Sr...
greatest of all time
No David Pearson was the greatest NASCAR driver of all time.!!
Sure miss him. But not Nascar His last race was mine also.
he should of switch his helmet he still my favorite driver
That wouldn't have done anything it might have even been worse with a full face it probly woulda drove yhe front of the helmet thru his face.he the only thing that could have saved Earnhardt was for him to have had his seat belt properly installed and driving like you should be driving not trying to block the track and show your ass he got his self killed
Brian Booher shut the fuck up bitch
@@DrewHiRacingNASCARWinPOVs yeah Brian stfu dumbass he didn’t fasten his belt wrong... his belt BROKE 🗣
Seat belt was cut, feds were coming down on him for taxes....lets put it this way, he is alive and well setting on a beach somewhere sipping a Budwiser with Tupac and Elvis
Switching his helmet wouldnt have kept his spinal chord from severing. Had they had the HANS he would 100% be alive. That or if Shrader was 10 more feet ahead of where he was beside Dale it wouldnt have sent Dale into that deathly angle.
what year is this
I truly believe if Dale would’ve lived he would have 8 😢
Am I still sick Larry
To this day, 2023, Larry McReynolds has a chip on his shoulder. He can say whatever he wants, but I believe he didn't and doesn't like Dale.
What year was this?
Well he was 49 when he died... dobthe math 😁
Ugh..1997. When Dale went winless with Larry Mcreynolds. Those two never got out of their own ways
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You are my hero and had that day not happened you're the one eight or nine Jimmy Johnson would have been s***
Yea ok...
He would’ve been impressed with Jimmie’s driving skills. Shut the hell up
I just never really liked the Larry McReynolds and Dale pairing, even though they won a Daytona 500 together they never really could get it done anywhere else and while they may have had a good relationship, they just could never get on the same page. I liked it a lot better when they switched and put Dale with Kevin Hamlin and Larry McReynolds with Mike Skinner and both drivers just had better outings after the switch.
Who is the guy giving this interview?
Bill Webber
We miss Dale #3
Whats the race @ 2:50 where he passin every1 in the pit lane durring wreck what a genius he was
I think Larry got the win at Daytona for Dale.
The way he sat in a racecar was different than any other driver - his eye level wasn't much over the dashboard -
It had to have contribute to the severity of the accident
Larry McDonalds