You do think, when you’re heading at this wall at 180 miles per hour, about your own ability to survive it. When you know you’re going to hit the wall and you know you’re going to hit it hard, you have time to think about it. “Normally, when you’re in a wreck, it happens before you get a chance to think about it. “Only time I was in that situation.you have a failure where you’re out of control, don’t have control of the steering or you don’t have any brakes, so you’re flying into the wall and you have enough time to think about it,” he said. There is an aspect to that kind of crash that most don’t consider: anticipation. Glad he’s out and safe and will race another day.” You lay out, wait for him to drop the net and wait for something to happen. It was a little bit of time before he dropped the net, but as a broadcaster you don’t make any assumptions in a situation like that. “Going through the grass knocked a little bit of the speed out of the car and thankfully it wasn’t as hard as it looked. “It looked like he hit the wall at 250 mph,” he said. It was very scary.”Īs someone who has hit a wall or three during his career, Earnhardt Jr. A lot of guys don’t, and it’s better for the motor that way, but it forces you to use more brake. I did that because I was afraid of over-cooking the brakes. I downshifted early and that would use engine braking to help slow the car down. “When they take so much spoiler off the back of these cars and they take drag off the cars, they use more brake. “That’s a track where you use so much brake,” he continued. We’ve seen it with Jeff Gordon, Jimmie ’s frightening. “We talked about it on the (NBC) broadcast. and co-hosts Mike Davis and Matthew Dillner.
The trip to the concrete that young Bubba Wallace took at Pocono last weekend was a major topic at the beginning of the show among Earnhardt Jr. It is well worth the time to listen to the straight dope from the days when the Earnhardt legend was first in full bloom. were the terrors of the NASCAR paddock along with other sons of drivers, crew chiefs and associated personnel, which took up a good portion of the latter half of the program. The son of Jimmy Means, 12-year-old Brad and similarly aged Dale Jr. There was a visit from Dale Jr.’s old running buddy from the halcyon days of Big E, Brad Means. Download, Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s eponymous Dirty Mo Radio podcast, topics ran the gamut from Bubba Wallace’s hard crash at Pocono to Jimmie Johnson’s 600 th NASCAR start to Chevrolet’s uptick in performance to.the Holy Grail of NASCAR memorabilia. 1, 2018) – In this week’s episode of the Dale Jr.
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