Dale Jr. Shares Birthday Memories, Childhood Vacations and More | The Dale Jr. Download: Ask Jr. 403

whoa a couple extra buttons nope you're good a couple of extra buttons we are now live hey everybody it's Junior and we are here for the ask Junior segment thanks for uh supporting everything we do here at Dirty Mo and Xfinity's uh been great for sponsoring as part of the show for a really long time and uh it's one of my favorite Parts because we get to engage with our audience um Hannah is back she's going to have your questions ready to go and so let's get started yeah the first one comes from Ryan Johnson of course you know belated happy birthday but do you have any favorite memories of your birthday that happen to fall on a day you were racing or just a favorite birthday memory in general it's funny man uh my sister Kelly posted this picture on her social media of me and her I bet I was four or five years old and there's a birthday cake with a little Formula One Indie Style Open Wheel car on the top of it and me and Kelly are just looking at the cake right and I remember taking those cars I've taken that car off the cake there was another car uh identical to it just a different color um that came that came in a set right and so Mom put one of them on the cake here's your cake we pulled the car off and cleaned it up and now I have two cars and I'm playing with them I remember that like when I seen that picture I was like damn I remember playing with that little car that day and so that makes me I remember it makes me kind of think back to like what's your earliest memory right earliest childlike memory and um when you see those type of when you see a picture like that you might go oh you know I don't remember that day I don't know what year that is I don't know how old I am I don't remember Kelly you know what we did I do remember the little car and playing with that little car I remember my fourth birthday celebration and in my mind the memory goes we're in mammals kitchen it's probably 1978. um Dad and Dad and Mom aren't uh aren't together anymore they're kind of in the middle of their separation or going through their divorce or separation so Dad and her aren't you know I don't see them in the same places together anymore and so that makes sense to me that in the during the morning and during the day mama was telling me that I that Dad wasn't in town or dad wasn't going to be around uh I asked her if I would see him or I just remember wanting to know if Dad was going to be at at Memaw's when I go to for for my birthday cake or whatever and she was saying no so we're in My Mama's Kitchen uh Memaw mom and there were seems like there were one or two other people there to have to have cake or whatever and uh dad come right dad comes into the kitchen on a big Tonka truck you know yellow steel Tonka truck and so he come in I mean this thing was big because he's squatting down sitting on it you know roll it you know Flintstone style coming in there and um I remember for some reason in my memory he's wearing like black jeans or blue jeans and a white T-shirt you know and I don't know if that's really what happened I we that this may have never happened but in my memory that that's my fourth birthday um and so and I've told that story a few times to Mom and other people and they didn't refute anything about it so I don't know if it happened at mammal's house maybe it was somewhere else you know but I do know Dad came in on a Tonka truck he I in my mind he wasn't supposed to be there that day it was like a little surprise my mom had for me and now knowing what I know about their you know the years they got separated and and how their marriage fell apart that was right in the middle of it October of 78. would have been pretty much you know toward the end of their as they were terminating their marriage so uh for for that to have happened was it's pretty interesting to me um because from that moment on when I saw Dad I only saw you know when I was with them I was with them separately they would never did anything ever again together as a family so um anyways I'm getting down the road on that but uh those those are that that's a fun birthday memory for me um I really don't remember many birthdays or what I did on you know my 16th or my 21st or I'd have to really think about it but there's a couple that stick out and it's those you don't remember you're 21st because you don't remember your 21st I don't know what I was doing um this next one comes from Corey Schramm and it's in regards to eye racing and scanning race tracks such as Riverside that are no longer around does iRacing need a physical race track to create one or can they recreate one digitally so they could absolutely create a an estimation right they could they could there's no question that you know when before they ever started scanning tracks Papyrus uh was building tracks in a program called sandbox and and you know taking their best guesses and measurements uh to be able to develop whatever they felt like this track should look like and they get they would get pretty close um and that's why most video games did it for years so there's no question that they could go try to create a version of Riverside or an old track but they they won't or they don't their pride they Pride themselves on being able to make something exactly the way it is uh to the to the you know thousandths of an inch uh all the imperfections the bumps everything about this is every every building every object at the track is in the in the exact perfect spot and looks as it's supposed to look and so when that's their sort of mission and to in their to their core that's their mission right is to make these things perfect and make it exactly as it is and so um while they do make throwback race cars right they do make you know they did make a uh North Wilkesboro but they had the physical track there to scan uh and then they looked at you know old racing footage and so forth to be able to get the uh the surrounding you know the guard rail and all the other things that aren't physically there anymore uh as good as they possibly could so I think that you know as we exhaust all the real racetracks out there that we can scan if we ever get to a point to where they want to get more creative and and get outside the box a little bit and try to try to create something that doesn't exist anymore it would be interesting uh what that ended up looking like it's doable but we've got fans tuning in all the way from Ireland England France that are hanging out with us on YouTube but uh another one of the questions we kind of talked about it a little bit at the top of the show was the news that Dodge is not considering re-entering NASCAR but what do you think it would take for another OEM specifically not Dodge to try and enter the sport I don't know I don't know what it takes um hundreds of millions of dollars I I don't know what the what it would cost um so I've never there's not a I've never been a part of anything that would be um that would give me an idea of what that might entail for a manufacturer or somebody to come into the sport I know that you know I was around when Toyota came but I know they spent a bunch of money uh to get to where they are today and they continue to invest um millions of dollars into the sport or into their teams so I mean the number one word I guess for a manufacturer to come would be massive commitment you know to a long-term a long-term plan and to know that you're not going to get a return on that investment out of the out up front that's going you're going to lose money in the first several years and you're going to lose a lot of races um because I don't know that NASCAR would ever and I don't know the NASCAR would ever allow like a Honda or somebody to come in and I'd automatically reach Victory Lane right and start winning races without a bunch of push back and uh criticism from not only fans but other the other manufacturing manufacturers right and so if you looked at Toyota this is my my impression of it was they kind of had to crawl before they could walk they they allowed them to uh become somewhat competitive in trucks then Xfinity then Cup right and it was sort of this natural progression before um you know they became dominant at the top level or or you know I feel like that you know that that'd be a tough part is when you bring in a new manufacturer to be NASCAR and some sort of you know be able to put them in in in between the bumpers and say hey here's here's the guidelines that you have to work within and to make sure they didn't go out there and uh upset the playing field any but I know it costs a lot of money to bring a new manufacturer in and they'd be they'd have to be willing to to invest a lot to get there to to even be a part of it I'm just picturing calling a pit stop and calling someone's Honda coming to a stop in their stall like it just doesn't sound it doesn't sound I got it I got a question I got a question for you you remember how James Finch when you know you talk about the last owner that just didn't give a damn and he would he would switch the manufacturer decals on his car could be the same car he put Chevrolet on it one week put Pontiac on it the next week right this I remember this back in 2002. what is there anything that would stop an owner from just putting let me let's just call it an independent owner from putting another car on the racetrack or at least like a Honda decal or anything like that but anything stopped them from that Nascar has in the rule book what cars are allowed to run okay so you cannot specific models you know and they they are the owners of the single Source parts to be able to sell you the you know the part to be able to to run what you want right yeah the parts will all be the same I'm just talking about branding yeah I don't know I don't know I mean if you want to if you want to be a Honda sponsored car I'm sure you could yeah because that's what finch would do again same car all parts but just would just just to spite people the manufacturer in NASCAR and anybody else that he crossed him he would just go and just switch all these things up and I don't know why anybody would want to do that today but yeah I'd say my super late model used to be a Pontiac well Pontiac knows um last question comes from Tom Riggs what is your favorite vacation you went on as a kid oh boy um my favorite vacation now we didn't take vacations as kids I you know my uh you know with Dad Racing We Were our vacations were going to the racetrack um Daytona was great because you know you would race in the morning and you'd be on the beach in the afternoon I've got pictures of us uh you know getting buried in the sand uh at Daytona throughout the weekend so that was kind of fun because most racetracks you went to and you never really left the track is a hotel you had the hotel the pool at the hotel you you know and then you was at the racetrack and that was pretty much the weekend but in Daytona in July you had the beach and you had the pool at the hotel they were it was it was an experience you or other families vacationing so even though you were going to go to the racetrack which was awesome as a kid uh you did sort of get this vacation experience otherwise uh twice a year we went to see Mom in Norfolk we went in the summertime we went and we went during Christmas uh and I just said I you know I'd watch MTV and eat bowls and bowls of cereal while I was on those Vacations so uh you know it wasn't much wasn't much to it I not you know it was great I loved it but it wasn't nothing memorable um what was the go-to cereal uh my go-to cereal was probably um Lucky Charms was amazing uh Fruity Pebbles and um honeycomb honeycomb yeah yeah that was pretty good uh Cookie Crisp those would rip your damn mouth up there yeah like give your mouth all tore up on the top yeah you ain't lying you had lines of big old cookie chunks yeah the roof of your mouth that's sitting the milk just a little bit you didn't go right to it just soften those things up a little bit oh man yeah alrighty well that is it for this week's ask Junior questions I'm glad we got that Cookie Crisp mentioned in there yeah and this is only going to happen during the ash Junior segment because you guys asked such great questions and you get us to those spaces so appreciate everybody for tuning in supporting us Ben Kennedy's on the show today Ben uh is going to be an interest he's not come in here yet but he should be in here any minute Ben is basically being groomed as the next France to lead this Sport and I am excited about that I've known been a long time and I want that to work uh we're gonna get him in here and learn about him and what he's been through and what he's doing now what he's you know does what does he see for himself in the future in terms of being the leader of this sport at some point and helping the sport um for decades uh and go in the direction that he he wants it to go in so we're gonna see really you know what he what he thinks about that and and um I can't I got a lot of great questions I want to ask him so it's gonna be fun to talk to him so I think you'll enjoy this episode hopefully you enjoyed Ned Yost last week I know that um a lot of people were really surprised by how good that was I was uh pretty surprised with Ned as a guest um and I even uh to be to be clear I even used some of Ned's words uh uh to help us you know some of our drivers this weekend going to going to going into this you know round of the playoffs on the Xfinity Series so I took away some of Ned's motivation uh and speak and and and trying to use that to pump our guys up or the words uh suck on it meat no okay no different words good good way to make it awkward um anyways everybody have a great week and um sure we'll yeah have a great week hey buy Busters trip to Victor Lane out now in stores enjoy if you got some kids they might like this um you can pick it up today finally and we'll see you all right we are

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Length: 15min 43sec (943 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 11 2022