Jimmy Spencer: I Was A Little Bit Of A Hardhead

[Music] so you claim your words is that you like to speak your mind i should try to speak the truth my side of the story okay have you ever been wrong yeah all right do you ever have any regrets son of a wow lots okay name one come on i mean you look i i went on youtube and i i searched jimmy spencer uh disputes or fights or whatever the video is 44 minutes long i didn't know they made youtube videos that long but you go back i'm telling you my mike mclaughlin 2001 talladega todd beaudine your teammate you know you had these things so you're saying that there's nothing like you wish you just had to take that back like oh i shouldn't have said that or anything like that oh yeah mike you know but you know my mom said never look in the past move on mm-hmm so what are you supposed to do you know you regret it i regret it man but why why bring it up okay why there's mistakes that i made god dang if if if i made if i made better decisions on the motor builders if i made better decisions on moves i made on the racetrack if you question yourself all the time wow i don't want 10 000 races no you can't you can't look you can't i guess you know it's instilled into you i remember my dad you know like i regret i went to new england and i won some races and i told him you guys are upset because i'm kicking your heroes ass what a dumb thing to say right because now the fans hate me i'd go there and i'd beat them we'd go in and beat them in fact richie evans gets killed and dewitt concrete super guy mr duet is going to put me in the car he's going to give me the same deal richie got because richie told him as a hell race car driver richie and i raced for the championship in 84. i beat richie if it wasn't for jerry cook saying i had an illegal carburetor on but that's irrelevant you can't look back got second to i also went broke richie got killed in 85. hunter calls me up he says spencer mr dewitt wants to talk to you it's okay how to put the whole deal together i'm gonna drive the br duet car what a great deal prepare and i order two cars the whole package is coming together my first child is being born he's born jimmy 86. i go to freaking thing i get the phone call that hudder says you ain't gonna believe this he says gene's son says that he doesn't want a pennsylvania guy and he wants a new york guy in you talk about getting your freaking heart ripped out he says holy one thing leads to another and unfortunately for me frank cece has got to put john ron george kent in the car george kent goes in the car in dewitt carr i get frank cece well hunter says to frank he says the best driver there spencer without a question he won the championship hands down so one thing leads to another frank calls me on the phone takes my resume on the over the phone blah blah blah and we go to the racetrack we can't get the cars done so i'm driving one of frank's cars that ronnie kept prepared so i'm leading the race in this car green car first time ever drove a green number 11 at shangri-la we go new york and kent passes me in the br dewitt car and my brother was furious he says my brother doesn't get freaking past leading the race something's wrong with that car well the crew chief says there's nothing wrong with the car my brother jacks it up the housing was bent so long story short they're looking at the car frank says that's a brand new ran and says brand new rear in my ass he's not these a piece of crap he looked at it here can't stole the rear end out of the car gave it back to frank because dewitt's deal was he would give you credit cards buy your tires by he you you owned your stuff but he sponsored you so one thing leads to another and rot and frank cece went over to ronnie kent and ronnie kent says to him get used to it you can't beat us we beat them by 200 and some points by the end of the year but frank i owe frank c cereal a lot because that's how we ended up 86 87 champion you raced um in the xfinity series um for him yep in the 34. y'all had three wins and you're eighth in points and they replaced you in the middle of the year with randy lejoy buddy baker called me so that's how that happened yeah why did you not want to keep i come for one reason buddy i wanted to raise a cup car man so how did you tell us frank he knew it i helped him so um you couldn't do both no deal the way the schedule was you know you being yeah you know you ran a bunch of tracks that would compete that was like the airplane that that was exactly what you'd playing for yeah i was broke put put it to you lightly we we me and two meeting al racing and you know what's funny when i first came down here i won the championship we won the champion my family my dad said you can't race you you stay here you're making too much money you're winning too many races this is dead i got to do it man i got to go cup race and i got to try it and uh i went down to uh food country and the crew chief wouldn't hire me i went down to 75 cars yeah yeah mr great guy that's a good car what's his name it was a good car yeah but what was his name he got a bunch of he owns a bunch of rush uh but good guy he has a hell of a t-bird collection yeah i just remember they had that one driver forever um teague yeah brad team brad t yeah bratty spun me out my first cup my first race he didn't spin me out i i'm i'm racing that so this is the year so we come down here and nobody wants to put me in the car they go you wreck that's that was the word i wrecked i said if i wreck title i win so many damn races and modifieds i don't wreck people and that that was what the media did to me they'd use that mr excitement oh yeah they would they they could get a mark gabriel was the worst son of a there was because i was racing in the bush series and he would he would he would say that oh he's wrecking him he's pushing him out of the way and frank cece's wife would be him listen to it on the radio and frank cece would say damn jimmy ain't even got a bump on his car what are they talking about so he went to him he went to mrn to talk about it and they wouldn't do nothing about it he went to mr france because dale it was just it was bad they were painting year old oh my god were they painting dale if i was so bad right how did i come i remember most the most laps of anybody the first year here with me and one other guy yeah me and one other guy but anyway how would you character what was the truth then you tell us the truth what was the truth about how well intended yes hardheadedness oh god dang man you know me mike i was you know you worked with me man i i was a little bit of a hard head so so but but uh stubborn were you guys a were you guys would you call yourself aggressive yes there was a way to pass somebody i never hit them i raised them okay you you you raced them now if you held me up and i tried passing you three times inside or outside you chopped me off so i'm you're gonna know i'm there i'm gonna move you out of the way it's the way we raced man the way you raced because you now you would if you were racing i remember finishing second to mike mclaughlin in oregon new york oswego new york i don't believe i was any faster i don't think he was any faster with two equal cars i could get two we could get oh fantastic but i never hit him because it would have been easy that's not that's not how you raced you raced you hoped a guy made a mistake going back to the dirt days with jimmy knave you kept the pressure on a summer bay you kept him nervous as hell you look at the five car today what's his name um lars cow you look at kyle busch those sons of drive because they want to win you've got to admit that when you when you want something that's that's what makes that's what makes a sport what it is it's not chocolate vanilla that's why there's 31 flavors of baskin robbins because there's drivers out there that guy right there ko yarber that was one of the most toughest drivers ever meet bobby allison i drove for bobby to create a quick story about bobby allison driving for bobby allison dick moroso drove for him we won those races and and bobby allison four races to go in the season he calls me up he goes you need to drive my car i said okay bobby i'll gladly drive your car bring your seat but when we do it we go to charlotte finish fourth we're going to win race going to win the first cup race ever we're running third get into second where's this this is this is the fall race at charlotte motor speedway catching a leader and for some unknown reason the car gets real free i i get close to the wall i think i might have touched the wall it and it gets real friend i call the radio jimmy fanning one of the best crew chiefs i ever had he says jimmy i said my car's getting free right now i think i got a tire going down are you sure you're sure you shouldn't i relive it all the time because i didn't hit the wall and i all at once i slowed down he said slow down that speed there's only twenty hours to go in a race we end up finishing fourth and the next morning i'm taking the two kids to school and bobby calls me about eight o'clock he goes jimmy he says yeah bobby he's i need to come to the shop right now so i get my truck haul ass over and the truck arm was broke truck arm was broke and i couldn't believe it so then we went to rockingham going to win the race at rockingham no question in my mind your dad knocked my bumper off that day i loved your old man we were racing pretty hard you know and he knew i had a good car and i had a good and i might have went to turn and he and when he knocked the rear fascia off my thunderbird it made it about three tenths of a second quicker yeah it was incredible and i'm right that son of a is flying right last pit stop the frickin air gun brakes that's when you were allowed two air guns on the right side one on the left side bobo and we finished seventh to back out to phoenix we're racing to phoenix gonna win the race davey allison's leading the race had bad pit stops all day i say to bobby i go bobby i know i said last pit stop we come out second 28's in front of us davey's leading for the championship i'm thinking well i got to protect davey i says jimmy how's everything ice is not good whoa what do you mean not good keith allman i said you'll see in about 20 or 30 seconds coming down pit road had an open face helmet on mike keys i look bobby allison jimmy there's no problem there and i went i'm quiet he goes now you remember you've done a great job this team has done a great job today we need to finish what we started out to do and that's when this race that car is just another obstacle in our way and i'm like saying to myself this can't be true i cannot be hearing this so bobby keeps talking and he says you remember that car's racing for the championship you race him that you know he's raced for the championship now you go and get him and i got him and i'm passing him on the inside and the motor blows up the lifter breaks i end up finishing fifth and then we went to atlanta and dale and davey gets wrecked and and there's a great great memory alan quickie and and and and uh the budweiser card bill elliot so i'm i got the car and i'm fast i'm driving the very best of number 12 and i can race with these guys so i'm up there and i start messing with them and i'm like and as the race progresses i'm like wow i wonder what's going on so what was going on was my fat ass was wore out i mean wore out so i come on the radio and i said wow i said uh the car's getting a little tight right now okay so the last 150 laps of the race or whatever i couldn't i couldn't race with him i'm glad i didn't you were falling out of the seat oh i fell out of the not falling out you fell out oh my god i fell out i ended up finishing fourth come in and i i called him on the radiant i said jimmy i needed to come up front of this hauler so bobby allison comes up jimmy comes up and i said you know i could have spoiled that event today bobby said i know you coulda and i know what happened and i'm going to help you and i my perspective from that race and the one before in phoenix i said that's a hell of a race team i'm staying driving my phone was ringing off the hook rick hendrick richard petty junior johnson all of them and i said i'm staying with bobby allison great race team so you stayed i stayed there i stayed we were ninth in the points we ran no money no money how did you get the call and finally go to juniors well that's a sore subject because i was driving for ba rj reynolds wanted me to drive for them t wayne robertson for junior no bobby nope t wayne yes t wayne robertson wanted me to drive rj reynolds tobacco company wait okay okay i think that was something to do with your old man yeah they okay they were going to sponsor bobby allison bobby allison didn't know how good a friend is junior johnson and t wayne robertson was mcdonald's is on the 94 car without strickland driving it so junior says i'll put spencer in the 94 car for one year and then i'll put him in your car from then on junior was at the tail end of his career he was ready to quit love him the death man fortunate to get my wins with him when we wanted daytona junior put his arm around me and said you're two or three years too late bud and i didn't realize that was to the time and then i realized but they took that r.j reynolds to back a deal from him in 1993 when i raced for bobby allison so we had meineke on our car 900 grand is all we had i drove for little to nothing because i love that race team jimmy finning the allman brothers them sons of we had a hella race team should have won some races and that you regret yeah i regret those guys never got a sponsor with me that's what i regret but junior come to me and i waited as long as i could and i sit down with bob bilby jack bob bilby and the guy from he on he owned hagerstown um i can't remember his name bob bilby and bobby allison and anyway that's awful i can't forget anyway so they kept promising me we're going to get a sponsor so junior barney hall barney hall kept coming hey you you know the hall was waiting for you to holla you know the holo oh yeah and he says barney i'm standing where i am he's eager and a sponsor he said how do you know that they knew i mean it was so so i went to bill and bill says i'll look into it bill told me i went to your dad and you and i told your dad i said here's the contract he says tell him this is what you want you go to drive for junior hmm i did earn heart told you that no man you so so peta said something else you would you'd have done something else i mean you really were to take whatever he advised i trusted him yeah he said it's all race team but you can't beat money you can't i have a three-year contract junior for junior for lots of money lots of money i'm like and junior dale said do you just take that song let me tell you about money we're racing we got some questions though about this 94 car that we got we got to make sure we get to not that i don't like stories about money now tell me quick about this story it's quick so i'm hurting for money i moved down here in frank cc and i and and i'm i'm struggling and i finally get my cup right with baker and and i'm broke and i'm always to your dad's shop your dad was struggling at the time with his team he calls me on he said spencer i wanna come to the shop so i go to your shop and dale says sit in that seat so i sit in the seat yeah he said need you to do me a favor i want you to go to indianapolis practice this card whole nine yards because i got to go to do the iraq race he says no dale i can't do that i said it's on off weekend i promised my wife and kids were going to carowinds he said i promise you'll be at carowinds i says dale what if it rains out he says i will fly the goddamn airplane down to to get you home you got my word that's all i needed that was the best time i went with you tony your you got you had two good guys and you raised cause you come to richmond and kicked our ass into one car i remember that story too they were gunning for us and they beat us but anyway i went to indianapolis in that car and i'm practicing in it and i didn't like the way it was rolling the center of the corner and i told tony and they worked on it a little bit never told them what to do just drove the car and i said man you guys fixed it and he says no we got to do something so they changed the ams camber gains i said man tony that sound is on the money we gotta qualify the old man comes in we didn't expect i said i got a dead neutral if anything it's it's a little free on entrance but that sun comes off that corner he went from the rear of the field to the lead to race lug branch something broke we end up he ends up finishing third never in my life seeing so many people at a race and talking about our fans the night that being your dad directed south boston i never in my life saw so many people on a racetrack so now i'm standing there by the end of the hauler and he says leave your bag there come on come on with me so we go to get in the airplane here we're in the vm we drive over and uh i forget he was promoting the track and here comes your dad out with a sack of i know what it was now it's cash and i get in the airplane we fly home he takes me home we sleep i fall asleep and anything one thing him and teresa so they we landed in spencer we landed we landed spencer we get up he drives me home i'm my van my pickup truck sitting at the shop drives me home theresa hands me the amplified go and throw it on the table and go to bed seven o'clock mowing hey hey hey yeah she said do you know how much money is in there and i says no she said there's 9 000 in there i went what she says i saw he made a mistake so don't worry about we put it into place we go to cameras i go back over there monday your old man sitting there signing autographs doing his deal i come in i throw the envelope down on the thing what that what's the matter i said you made a mistake straight as if he goes why you want more i went no you can't be serious he says you did what you ever did but me meanwhile your dad knew what was wrong on his race team i said dale i didn't do nothing to your race car he said you got hell of a race team he's what's wrong i said well you got to know what's wrong he had fisher motors they were joking they were terrible they were freaking jump dale they were junk he complained about him oh my god they were junk but he knew and i you know when your dad done that to me that was pretty special life is best lived in motion and that's why tire pros gets you ready for all your driving adventures whether it's along corners and curves across city and state lines because we're more than just tires we're auto care too tire pros so you can focus on the road ahead [Music]

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Length: 21min 13sec (1273 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 17 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/JCTaylor46]

Jimmy's past experience with France kinda explains his comments regarding 01 Pepsi 400.. not to mention he did apologize to the team a week or 2 later. Wise move on Jr's part to let him come on and explain his side of it all even if they don't see eye-to-eye.. that's okay imo. I feel like Jr has gained some level of understanding/respect for Jimmy that he might not have had prior to the episode, and vice versa. Its a win-win in my book.

[u/ecupatsfan12]

Son of a bitch

[u/yankeesfan033]

Spencer is a total stereotypical grandpa now and it's so weird

[u/gigesdij7491]

Jimmy Spencer was the John Daly of NASCAR. He would have been a perfect teammate to Dale Sr. in the 90s.

[u/Leo8824]

Spencer was such a great TV personality, miss him. Him and Byrnes were so much fun imo

[u/TheSewallSyrum]

Still has the toupee on!

[u/KWeber94]

I’m so behind on the DJD I still have to listen to Ty Norris. Can’t wait for this one though. I didn’t think Mr Excitement would ever do an interview with Dale

[u/cvg596]

Interesting to have a guest Mike knows better than Jr.

[u/stocktastic]

Jimmy Spencer reminds me of Don Vito from Viva La Bam.