Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife Amy take Newlywed Quiz | NASCAR | NBC Sports

if you're watching on DirecTV the audience network channel 239 or the NBC Sports Network you're seeing two lovebirds they're just sharing each other it must be nice to be in love there Junior it is especially you know Amy and I've been together a long time so we we know each other really well she knows me better than anybody else and helps out a lot alright full introduction here amy is Dale's new wife we got married in January a course Dale is the driver the 88 Nationwide Insurance Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports we came up with a quiz we spent about 15 minutes on this so obviously a lot of time on this so a momma see how well you know jr. all right Dale Dale's middle name is and his first name is Wow okay first name is realm did you think about going with that is that your grandfather's new yeah Ralph alii Earnhardt Lee's my grandpa if you ever think about staying with Ralph to stay away from the Dale Dale senior well well you know what I had that come you don't think about that when you're four five years old they sort of hear you in that direction for you they make that decision for you and early age okay okay so your dad said you're your Dale jack yeah yeah no choice man if you had a choice I like Dale jr. I'm okay open some doors hide uh literally Dale played what sport in high school soccer backup soccer player yeah I was a fullback I didn't know how to I had no ball control so I couldn't play wing or anything like that but I could stop a guy from scoring I mean that's pretty easy right just getting his way ago kick the ball so I played fullback but I was I was on the bench in high school Dale was an A student a B student or a C student C student C student is correct that's three for three Dale prefers to wear baseball hats backwards or forwards both well I don't know I thought it was backward have you graduated to four yeah hands on his hair that day oh how often is Hannah here excited the bigger is hair is depends on how he worse now I got a picture three weeks you a bully is that right yeah three weeks ago you have bad word yeah driver intro Yeah right yeah we don't have to keep it home because it's gonna blow off okay back and pick up throw it around around 60 miles an hour see all around Balthazar end up on the ground Dale's favorite sandwiches Oh clearly I'm not making bacon well that was big sandwich well no sandwich I'm making my racin Joe hurt you know sauce omelette salad wait wait wait open it and then yeah yeah I don't make that banana and mayo yeah as a North Carolina it's a I think it's I think people in in the South Atlanta New Orleans I had all kinds of people that knew what it was but anybody north of Virginia or west of the Mississippi thought it was the worst idea in the world well didn't the oldest eat those comes to Elvis ate five and a half peanut butter yeah Elvis ate banana mayo peanut butter fried Oh front okay deep fry the whole sandwich pound of bacon - you had a pound of bacon sandwich deep fried as a joke which of Dale's relatives had the most kick-ass mustache in history I'd say is that yeah there you go well done anyway we got one more you got another cold yeah I was going to ask her the final and most important question okay I saw him on NFL Sunday I got you a Redskins jersey to wear whose Redskins jersey do you wear oh boy Reagan Reagan John honey nice I got that diesel how is he when the Redskins lose how is he yeah more bears consumed when the Redskins win haha thanks when they win too weak am i how many so many in advanced car drivers went to the wedding hmm who won hey playboy or plant Boyer was there Kyle Busch Denny Hamlin Danica Rick Ricky whoever else fun god bless our data tell Helen Samantha yeah we were on the dance floor we had the opportunity on New Year's so we had this big New Year's party afterwards and I look to my right and they are like professional dancing what does he dance like he drives like all over the place yeah but it was like that part it was purpose like this dance I mean they weren't just goofing off dancing like the rest of all they rehearse they do classes or something don't you think that seems like it he had to very specifically they were yeah Danika the decent dancer I'm sure yeah just stop it like a pot a little bit okay nerves Wednesday before Sunday's race Daytona as opposed to getting there walking down that aisle how can compare the nerves between the two yeah what with getting married I knew I was going to win you know I mean the race starts you don't know we're going if you're a waiter no he's your checkered play fine I was like it's the race I'm a run I know I'm going to win it look at you he'll cops in the world but how nervous are you going to be on Sunday you know I sit and everything you've gone through oh yeah I mean with the injury and everything coming back I'll be nervous about myself my performance my decisions my choices because in play racing everything's about instinct and making the right choice to do the right thing in the draft and you know so I'll be making to do a good job to make sure that I put forth a good account of myself my team they're going to you know we got a great car we're starting on the front row it's fast so I mean I'm always I mean I mean human nature I think to be nervous so I've always kind of been nervous before qualifying before races it's nothing that I've ever got used to so that those nerves will be piling up what about you Amy I'm as nervous as he is when he's nervous I'm nervous it's kind of an energy that passes around the room you know and you have no control over anything that's at least he's driving right that you have to sit where do you watch i watch in our motor coach we travel with our dogs and nobody's watching me in there I can yells TV as long as I want to and I usually have the TV pretty low and I listen to the radio so I can listen to what he's playing with the spotters everything in the car would you want your kids to drive you know the only thing about it is is super expensive I mean to be honest I've got a lot of friends buddies they have kids that rent you know they're getting them into racing and it is a very expensive activity even at a young age for kids so to try to it's a great play it's a great way to treat sportsmanship and it's to teach sportsmanship so I know that my nieces learn quite a bit from winning and losing when they race so I think it's a great a great father-son or father-daughter kind of activity but man I mean is it expensive just a race at a low level as a ten 12 year old cousins of dollars you know and it's just not like it used to be when I started I when I started up me and my brother built streets talking with racer 400 bucks built a car near named motor and you can't do that these days who's the better driver on the street you were a b-boy I typically I'm driving he's on his iPad yeah you have to strive I may have a crash yet I guess I got in clays name for me yeah maybe one of us had any problems of uh uh Keith I'm really really slow and lazy on the highway she thought she's much faster than I am let's do the last time we rode together I had to tone to see that people isn't going to be the night I get into pondering and thinking and just cruising yeah and because I'd get a race you know for a living so I go faster Oh your race for a living yeah so that's not you know I get all I get my speed out on the right here if I said you could win the Daytona 500 where the Redskins could win the Superbowl I would take the Daytona 500 every time I love the Redskins we've been since 91 knows this when once we both so what's another year if I win today confounds you're guaranteeing me the win at the Daytona 500 oh what if what if I give I give you this Daytona 500 but I don't give you anymore Daytona 500 but the Redskins who win a Super Bowl I take this Daytona 500 and Sybil you would yeah okay that's a guaranteed win would you now let's say you have a successful season let's say you win the championship would you consider a John Elway walk away when I went to Jimmy G if I'd retire on the stage in Vegas hell yeah it would probably really I mean why wouldn't it be the best way yes to go out yes on top but it's rare when guys do that I know but it's rare anybody wins a championship at 43 years old good you know you'll know not yet I'm am what goes first on a driver I don't know you know I've always wondered I've always wanted to talk to guys that have retired Dale Jarrett and other people that I trust that would shoot me straight as to what happens and where does the lose passion do you lose skill do you lose you know what is it that sort of Wayne's first when you know that you're not doing the job anymore that some males need to get in there and do it I've hadn't had that conversation yet but I certainly would love to what would your dad be doing though I think we'd still have de I may be working would you work when I would hope that I would still be there I think B I would still be around he was such a great businessman I have all the faith in the world that place would would still be fielding race teams and and have happy sponsors and have had a lot of race wins in between you know then and now and I would love to still be a part of it I wonder how he would have retired though I get the feeling it you know as the as great a competitor I think he already had his plan I don't know yeah I think he did I think that he had his plan I think and there's a few people not me included but I think there's a few people that he may have shared that with as to you know particularly in his inner circle as far as his businesses go as to what he was going to do driving wise over the next couple of years and I think he had a plan in his mind to scale it back and it wasn't about a year or two more bracing before he's going to retire do you bring racing home with you bad habit yeah I mean so if you're bringing win the home if the guy had it because every time we win all the guys on the team I don't I don't care if it takes them till four o'clock in the morning to get home we have a party in my basement every time we win we celebrated in the basement if it's you know whenever they get home I'm waiting I'll wait for them and has a beer coat the worst but the worst thing is I think the one thing that I struggle with is yeah when I don't run well I bring it home and I can't get over it until I can redeem myself which means I got to get back in the car which doesn't happen till the next weekend so it takes a couple days to get over you've changed a lot though in the last two years just from me talking to you and observing I thought the Tommy Tomlinson interview and ESPN The Magazine was spectacular and Amy I have to credit you I think for a lot of this I think he's you know it feels like he's he's found himself you know yeah you know maybe you're acting your age junior maybe that's what it is yeah I mean it happens to us all one day I hope to get there but I feel like you found out a whole lot about yourself in the last two years yeah Amy's been a huge huge part of that and you know she I was such a introvert and wouldn't expose myself to just normal experiences day to day and she's helped me kind of get out of my shell and show me how to be more comfortable in and around people and and just get over my social anxieties I had a lot of anxiety in social situations and she's helped me get more more confidence to be able to get out and do things so when you get in front of people like you're fine race to the car at 180 miles an hour yeah but if I put you in a crowd with twenty people it's it's weird yeah I have social anxiety I think and it you know any I wouldn't go anywhere I wasn't comfortable going and I prolong that for so many years in it and so yeah had a lot of catching up to do then maybe something kind of get out and be myself all these other you know personal experiences going through the injuries and stuff - is helps you learn a lot about yourself and get your priorities sort of straightened out what's important that's all been a big deal and she's like I said she spearheaded all that she was she's been there every every minute ever since I got hurt all the way through the process of recovery the workouts the evaluations the conversations and meetings with every doctor family member she was in every single one of those well but if you think about it I mean every year you go back to where your father died and you know people are going to ask you questions you know it's coming you just don't know when it's coming and I don't know how and I've said that before to you a couple years ago just to process that nobody else can understand that but you've and and I don't know if we make too big if I make too big of a deal of it but I think it's remarkable that you have allowed yourself to open up to process it and I don't know how long it took to do that but I couldn't imagine trying to do something like that yeah I think the opening up and being honest and transparent at first you're kind of nervous to be judged but eventually if you don't give people information they make their own assumptions and decisions about what you're going through and that's dangerous too and sometimes they can be getting correct and wrong and bad information can get out there rumor can become fact and especially in the world we live in with social media and stuff just you know there's stuff just flying around out there so I'm just trying you know I think going through the process of recovering everything being so transparent and showing people what we're dealing with helped me have peace of mind that I knew people weren't worrying about what I was doing they knew they knew the information and knew what I was dealing with once again I credit you in you had to do there's something different about him the last two years and it's pretty remarkable and you're in love too yeah yeah yeah good luck this weekend thanks appreciate ank you and if you're watching by the way you brought in the Daytona 500 trophy how much that way I don't know what you think 150 pounds hundred pound axle is seemingly bigger than 30 40 pounds really I don't see if she picks it up on Sunday no pressure the driver of the number 88 Nationwide Insurance Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports she's a Dale jr. and his great white fame thank you for coming in

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Length: 15min 9sec (909 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 21 2017