Never thought there were hard feelings between Darrell Waltrip and Junior and his guys after '86. The falling out with Earnhardt and Junior Johnson after wrecking Darrell like that, I could understand. You don't turn somebody in the wall and expect to get away with it, let alone to win a race.
As always, great interview. I had no respect for Dale Sr. If he wasn’t good enough to get around you, he wrecked you. I remember an interview with Dale Jarret after Dale Sr wrecked him. The interviewer told Dale that Earnhardt said he didn’t try to wreck him. Dale said Earnhardt says that every time he wrecks somebody.
When someone says "Trust Me" DON'T......When someone tells you "I am just being honest" They AIN'T Dale Sr would have tore up everything that Junior Johnson built. Come to think about it he did exactly that. Junior Johnson was a bully, some folks were scared of him but not everyone. Junior didn't like the ones he could not bully.
Dale Earnhardt didn't mean to wreck everybody...but somehow wrecked everybody. All he wanted to do was rattle the cage, that's always been a bunch of BS.
I remember Earnhardt getting booed louder than Gordon ever did - people don't believe it but I was there - and I remember it well - I hated it when everyone jumped on the 3 bandwagon -
@@TheSceneVault Awesome job! These videos are great! Keep digging/praying/believing on getting the WC Scenes digitized. It might take some time, but you'll come out on top.
Jeff talked about the football Thunderbird but I honestly believe Ford went to Harry Rainer and said they wanted him to switch from Chevrolet to Ford to help develop their Windsor engine. Ford had never ran a Windsor engine in NASCAR only the Cleveland. Waddell Wilson didn’t want to switch to Ford because they’d had so much success in the Chevrolet. Smokey Yunick once said everybody talks about how great an engine builder Waddell is and he is but it’s amazing how much Waddell knows about aerodynamics. Waddell told Harry Rainer all we have to do is work harder to make the Chevrolet competitive with the Ford and Rainer told Waddell if we switch to Ford it will take all the work out of it. After a lot of trying to convince Waddell after a pretty long talk Rainer finally convinced Waddell. Even though they won two races and one of the qualifying races at Daytona the rest was pretty much a disaster with all kind of mechanical problems. Greg Sacks drove a Chevrolet in the Firecracker 400 in 1985 that Gary Nelson and company had got from Harry Rainer and won. Before the race Waddell went to Greg Sacks and said this is how you drive this car. I believe Ford told Harry Rainer a bunch of bull about developing the Windsor engine just to get the only Chevrolet team out of the way that could compete with them.
@@easyenetwork2023 Yea I didn’t mean Junior wasn’t competitive in 85 I just meant Waddell at that time was hard to beat at Daytona and Talladega. Darrell Waltrip even though a lap down did finish third in the Daytona 500 in Juniors car in 85.
Well, Ford has had the same intake port bias since 1958. All there V8's. It doesn't mean thier engines were stout however, it did mean later on in years, it was determined the discharge location allowed better filling than other angles. GM on the big block has a left and right bias intake port. It was determined early on air flow differed greatly from left to right. Those in the know had determined the poor flowing intake is the 'Power Port '. That angle into the cylinder flat makes more power. It's the bias angle that makes the difference. It's why the LS head makes more power than the siamese bias. GM decided,I think, they had to follow what made more power and thusly they followed suit. So in the older days, GM was down approximately 50hp from the Ford at the upper RPM. That's what made the Ford a favorite at the time. IMO.
I lost respect for nascar during the 85 season because they started in the Daytona 500 penalizing the Elliott's. After they let Junior do anything during the seventies and early eighties. Funny how the T bird did not become an issue until 85 even though it had been running since 1983. I gave up on nascar after rcr was allowed to win everything like Junior did without being penalized and they done the same thing with hendrick too. The favortism made it like wrestling and not worth watching anymore.
There is no way the Dodge Mirada was worse aerodynamically than the Blocky T-Bird or the Grand Prix. I’ve read it had more to do with the fact that the old 340 blocks were hard to come by by that point and the 360 blocks didn’t work as well for power.
The Pettys tried that car before building a Buick in 1981. But then most of those cars during that era were pretty boxy. The only thing that fixed it were the slope nose Monte Carlos and a football shaped T-bird as Hammond put it. And around '86 there were the slant back windows for the Monte Carlo and Pontiac 2+2. What these guys wouldn't do to gain an edge.
I believe at the time, Junior had two crews and they had they're own crew chiefs, Tim Brewer and his team where the short track team and Hammond had the speedways.
Junior Johnson #11 (Darrell Waltrip) Chevy sponsor Budweiser and Warner Hodgdon #12 (Neil Bonnett) Chevy sponsor Budweiser was co - race car owners. 🏎🏁🏆😎🇺🇸🇮🇱 Jeff Hammond was crew chief for #11 (Darrell Waltrip) Chevy sponsor Budweiser. 🏎🏁🏆😎🇺🇸🇮🇱 Tim Brewer was crew chief for #12 (Neil Bonnett) Chevy sponsor Budweiser. 🏎🏁🏆😎🇺🇸🇮🇱
To me, that race in 1986 between Darrell Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt got together is when Earnhardt kind of took the mantle from Darrell Waltrip as top driver.
NASCAR, are you listening? 8:05 - 8:45. If you let the manufacturers decide what they wanted to race. Perhaps the manufacturers would still be heavily involved in racing. No one wants to look at 3 manufacturers and not be able to tell the difference in make or model.
@@pp3k3jamail that title wasn't shit compared to Winston milion.the cup winner got only 200 grand compared to a million what bill did in 85 only has happened 3 times in Nascar history Gordon was one an I belive but could be wrong Lee Roy Yarborough an bill that Winston million was huge people don't realize how big it was
@@brianbooher7318 Although there was no Winston million at the time, David Pearson would have won it in 1976 had it existed. He won the Daytona 500, World 600, and Southern 500 that year, as well as 7 more races in 22 starts. You are correct that Leeroy would have won it in 1969 when there was no Winston 500.
in my time involved with NASCAR, Waltrip was the only driver or crew chief who was a dick to everyone - fan, peer, everybody. Rusty Wallace was the exact opposite, if you care. Class act and nice to everyone from the top to the bottom.
These are so underrated, love these candid, reminiscent interviews
Very interesting. Hammond was a great crew chief.
Never thought there were hard feelings between Darrell Waltrip and Junior and his guys after '86. The falling out with Earnhardt and Junior Johnson after wrecking Darrell like that, I could understand. You don't turn somebody in the wall and expect to get away with it, let alone to win a race.
I can't wait for more I could listen to him all day
Got your heart broke by staring at the back of that Coors t bird
Theme song ROCKS!!!
As always, great interview. I had no respect for Dale Sr. If he wasn’t good enough to get around you, he wrecked you. I remember an interview with Dale Jarret after Dale Sr wrecked him. The interviewer told Dale that Earnhardt said he didn’t try to wreck him. Dale said Earnhardt says that every time he wrecks somebody.
Seems like Jarret wasn't fast enough to me .
He got around him, didn't he?
Dale Earnhardt The Greatest Race Car Driver of all time.
Jarrett didn't mind wrecking Mr. Never forgets, Spencer!
Jeff is honest and a good guy never changes
When someone says "Trust Me" DON'T......When someone tells you "I am just being honest" They AIN'T
Dale Sr would have tore up everything that Junior Johnson built. Come to think about it he did exactly that. Junior Johnson was a bully, some folks were scared of him but not everyone. Junior didn't like the ones he could not bully.
Not surprised Brewer and Hammond did not get along, but Brewer was there and helped run the whole organization too.
Dale Earnhardt didn't mean to wreck everybody...but somehow wrecked everybody. All he wanted to do was rattle the cage, that's always been a bunch of BS.
Well, the cage rattles pretty friggin good when it hits a wall.
I remember Earnhardt getting booed louder than Gordon ever did - people don't believe it but I was there - and I remember it well - I hated it when everyone jumped on the 3 bandwagon -
"The answer is no.... *checks phone*"
How long till part 5 will there be a part 5?
Part 5 will be released a week from today, and part 6 two weeks from today.
@@TheSceneVault Awesome job! These videos are great! Keep digging/praying/believing on getting the WC Scenes digitized. It might take some time, but you'll come out on top.
These are so great! Thank you The Scene Vault! ❤️
No bs, Jeff Hammond tells it like it is.
Jeff talked about the football Thunderbird but I honestly believe Ford went to Harry Rainer and said they wanted him to switch from Chevrolet to Ford to help develop their Windsor engine. Ford had never ran a Windsor engine in NASCAR only the Cleveland. Waddell Wilson didn’t want to switch to Ford because they’d had so much success in the Chevrolet. Smokey Yunick once said everybody talks about how great an engine builder Waddell is and he is but it’s amazing how much Waddell knows about aerodynamics.
Waddell told Harry Rainer all we have to do is work harder to make the Chevrolet competitive with the Ford and Rainer told Waddell if we switch to Ford it will take all the work out of it.
After a lot of trying to convince Waddell after a pretty long talk Rainer finally convinced Waddell. Even though they won two races and one of the qualifying races at Daytona the rest was pretty much a disaster with all kind of mechanical problems.
Greg Sacks drove a Chevrolet in the Firecracker 400 in 1985 that Gary Nelson and company had got from Harry Rainer and won.
Before the race Waddell went to Greg Sacks and said this is how you drive this car.
I believe Ford told Harry Rainer a bunch of bull about developing the Windsor engine just to get the only Chevrolet team out of the way that could compete with them.
Wasn’t Junior a Chevy team in 1985 though? Or were they Pontiacs or Olds?
@@easyenetwork2023 Yea I didn’t mean Junior wasn’t competitive in 85 I just meant Waddell at that time was hard to beat at Daytona and Talladega.
Darrell Waltrip even though a lap down did finish third in the Daytona 500 in Juniors car in 85.
Well, Ford has had the same intake port bias since 1958. All there V8's. It doesn't mean thier engines were stout however, it did mean later on in years, it was determined the discharge location allowed better filling than other angles. GM on the big block has a left and right bias intake port. It was determined early on air flow differed greatly from left to right. Those in the know had determined the poor flowing intake is the 'Power Port '. That angle into the cylinder flat makes more power. It's the bias angle that makes the difference. It's why the LS head makes more power than the siamese bias. GM decided,I think, they had to follow what made more power and thusly they followed suit. So in the older days, GM was down approximately 50hp from the Ford at the upper RPM. That's what made the Ford a favorite at the time. IMO.
Part 3 sounded like Junior said lay down for Cale winning the title. So DW could be right too.
I lost respect for nascar during the 85 season because they started in the Daytona 500 penalizing the Elliott's. After they let Junior do anything during the seventies and early eighties. Funny how the T bird did not become an issue until 85 even though it had been running since 1983. I gave up on nascar after rcr was allowed to win everything like Junior did without being penalized and they done the same thing with hendrick too. The favortism made it like wrestling and not worth watching anymore.
look at that cluster frig now.
In 1986, Junior's team had too many engine failures. If it was on purpose or not, we'll never know.
Probably on purpose. Junior never had major engine problems before, right?
There is no way the Dodge Mirada was worse aerodynamically than the Blocky T-Bird or the Grand Prix. I’ve read it had more to do with the fact that the old 340 blocks were hard to come by by that point and the 360 blocks didn’t work as well for power.
The Pettys tried that car before building a Buick in 1981. But then most of those cars during that era were pretty boxy. The only thing that fixed it were the slope nose Monte Carlos and a football shaped T-bird as Hammond put it. And around '86 there were the slant back windows for the Monte Carlo and Pontiac 2+2. What these guys wouldn't do to gain an edge.
There some people that's like out law drivers be cause that the kind of people they are
10:52 - 10:58 😂 1985 winston
I believe at the time, Junior had two crews and they had they're own crew chiefs, Tim Brewer and his team where the short track team and Hammond had the speedways.
Junior Johnson #11 (Darrell Waltrip) Chevy sponsor Budweiser and Warner Hodgdon #12 (Neil Bonnett) Chevy sponsor Budweiser was co - race car owners. 🏎🏁🏆😎🇺🇸🇮🇱
Jeff Hammond was crew chief for #11 (Darrell Waltrip) Chevy sponsor Budweiser. 🏎🏁🏆😎🇺🇸🇮🇱
Tim Brewer was crew chief for #12 (Neil Bonnett) Chevy sponsor Budweiser. 🏎🏁🏆😎🇺🇸🇮🇱
Who is a Jew in all this?
I thought Doug Richert crew chiefed the 12 at the beginning of the Johnson-Hodgdon era?
To me, that race in 1986 between Darrell Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt got together is when Earnhardt kind of took the mantle from Darrell Waltrip as top driver.
belive it happened when he went to hendrick.
NASCAR, are you listening? 8:05 - 8:45. If you let the manufacturers decide what they wanted to race. Perhaps the manufacturers would still be heavily involved in racing. No one wants to look at 3 manufacturers and not be able to tell the difference in make or model.
Football Thunderbird Drove Them Selves You Got Your But Kicked Jaws Jr.
DW took home the title tho.
@@pp3k3jamail that title wasn't shit compared to Winston milion.the cup winner got only 200 grand compared to a million what bill did in 85 only has happened 3 times in Nascar history Gordon was one an I belive but could be wrong Lee Roy Yarborough an bill that Winston million was huge people don't realize how big it was
@@pp3k3jamail After a half dozen rules changes by nascar.
@@brianbooher7318 Although there was no Winston million at the time, David Pearson would have won it in 1976 had it existed. He won the Daytona 500, World 600, and Southern 500 that year, as well as 7 more races in 22 starts. You are correct that Leeroy would have won it in 1969 when there was no Winston 500.
in my time involved with NASCAR, Waltrip was the only driver or crew chief who was a dick to everyone - fan, peer, everybody. Rusty Wallace was the exact opposite, if you care. Class act and nice to everyone from the top to the bottom.
DW??? He was really really rude to Davey......for no reason.
Nascar
NASCAR boring now. I am gone, sadly
NASCAR should leave it to the manufactured product - they have ruined the sport