Joe Rogan - Dale Earnhardt Jr. on What It's Like to Flip a Car

what but driving driving a racecar I mean you have a giant engine you're strapped into a seat you're hurling down the road at extreme speeds right next to other cars doing the same thing just the intensity and the just everything being on 9:00 at all times like that is a wild way to make a living sir yeah thanks I mean I it when I was a little when I was little thinking about you know what the hell am I gonna grow up and be I was my father was really successful in the sport so I would go to the races and I would watch him race and see him win and watch him go through Victory Lane and celebrate and all those things and I thought man this is what I got to do I got to do this this is this looks fun this looks exciting people are you know people are in all of the drivers the race my father the personalities and I just wanted to do it real badly but I knew that the odds of making it or tough so there's only 40 guys in the field every weekend so there's 40 guys in this in the whole country that are gonna get shot to do it you know and me the odds of me even with my dad being as successful as he was I'd have a lot of doors open to me but the odds of me actually getting there and being able to stay has a staying power and the success and talent I just knew were tough so I didn't know if I'd ever get that chance but it is you know I remember the first time I went to a two and a half mile track it's Talladega and you hold it wide open I was working at my dad's dealership changing oil he owned this Chevy store in Newton North Carolina and the phone rang and he said my dad my dad was on there then and he was in Talladega for a test and he said get your helmet in your suit and meet me at the racetrack the next day you're gonna fly in the king air to the to the track don't know don't ask questions just do it and so I got there and I I knew I was going to Talladega and I thought man I must be driving this this is gonna be crazy I'm gonna go around this two-and-a-half mile to track full speed at 190 miles an hour I've never done I never went faster than 90 or 95 on a racetrack before I never drove anything bigger than a half and I pull that he's you know I got there he's like you're gonna test this card get in get ready he puts me in there and he's like you got a hold of wide open if you don't hold a wide open the motors not gonna work it'll hurt the motor you got to hold it the way they tuned the motor to run wide open it has to run it it has to run at full throttle if he tried to go around there at half throttle to burn the Pistons at a run to lean all those things so he he was saying that and I thought to myself is he just telling me that just to make sure I hold it wide open because he thought I would I would I would be a not do it and so I was like man I'm a little nervous to hold it wide open but I pulled out on the track now mash the gas full throttle and I'm going down the back straightaway and I was like I'm looking down the back straightaway into the next corner this long corner and I'm like how's it gonna stick you know how is the car gonna house the car not gonna fly out of the racetrack like it I'm going so fast I don't it doesn't feel like it's going to stay in the track and and I kept running and kept running that through my head about my dad saying I got a hold of wide open I'm like well that's it at all it'll it'll go wide open around here so I don't think he would you know I believe everything he says and you go in the corner and you turn into the corner and there is more grip than you can imagine like them it there's so much grip that the car is stuck to the track with such grip that you've never felt this before in your life this is this grip like you can't slide across that track that took the tires and the car hold of the track so tough and tight that nothing is gonna make it it just goes around there like it's it's the craziest thing and so now today when I tell people when I got this two-seater car and we take people for rides and they get in there and I'm like man what am I gonna do what are you gonna do to explain to somebody what this is gonna feel like well there I will tell you things to pay attention to pay attention to the grip you're not gonna believe how much grip this car has like it's you you're just not gonna believe that it'll stick to the track the way it does so pay attention to that and pay attention now bumpy and violent it is you know you drive a Cadillac any car down the street well it's you know six eight inches off the ground these big old inflated tires and big giant sidewalls and it's gonna feel nice you know when it hits a little bumps our cars are rigid and sucked to the ground and don't have much travel in the suspension and you know it's just it's it's built to hand it to go fast not to feel good you know and it's gonna it's rough as hell and shakes shakes the hell out of you and that's what I remember about that and and as soon as I got over that initial fear I think that was the only time I ever had any real fear of driving a car as soon as I was like well alright what did you know anything nothing else is gonna be as scary as that was right driving a car and I mean flipping and when I flipped for the first time and our you know the cars tumbling and flying parts flying off the air mime I thought to myself that I wasn't scared or I never was scared of flipping my thought was I just did something a lot of people are never gonna experience you know I did something that that only a few people know what that's like and and I feel safe I've always felt incredibly safe inside the car you know with especially with the I mean in the last 20 years this the safety stuff has really been focused on and improved and better and better and better but I look at the interior of our cars today versus 20 years ago in it so I can't believe it some of the stuff that we used to climb into but so you felt calm while it was flipping oh yeah I always well I've seen cars flip right I've seen it for years right so I know that's possible so I get in there and I got turned around at a race in 1998 I was racing at Daytona and I got turned around and the car so I'm flipping for the first time in my life and this cars like over 3,000 3,000 pounds so it's it's but it flies up in the air like it's paper man it's the craziest thing in the world it's so weightless you know and what it felt like to me because of the car rolled on its side and came down kind of on its side it felt like somebody rolled a prop wall of grass up against the car you know I'm saying when I was on my side and I could see the ground I felt like I was right side up because as you're flipping this the force pushes you down in the seat so you feel eternally you feel gravity all the time like you're you know as a cars flipping you're you're pushed into the seat so you feel great you feel weight of yourself in the seat that never changes you never kind of come up out of the seat like that you know and so it's like somebody rolled a prop wall of grass up against the side of the car and then against the roof and then against that side and in this you know it kept doing that and I'm like it's just the weirdest feeling and you feel completely safe you know you feel like you know nothing's gonna harm me but this you know just you just one of the things they always talk about it's like get your hands onto something because the spinning makes your arms go like this and if you watch a lot of old wrecks from the sixties and seventies you'll see the guy's arms come flying out the window and they're just kind of flopping around they can't pull ya it's spinning so fast you can't pull it in and your arms go like that so as soon as you know you're going upside down you grab the bottom of the steering wheel and just kind of you know watch but I flipped my pickup truck one time on Christmas Day and I wasn't holding on the steering wheel and my arm went out the window you know for like a split second it banging around and the end of in the window sill and I was like man you know I got it back in and grabbed a hold of steering wheel with both my hands and so ever since then I've like you know now I know like anytime I'm in a crash you got to have your hands a hold of something cuz that's the one thing that you can't control your you're strapped in with your seatbelt and everything but your arms are you know can go anywhere and in that moment when the car is rolling or barrel rolling or flipping you it's so fast like you can't your arms just go this way yeah the craziest thing in the world that's the only fear I guess is that your arm could get outside the window and get crushed or something because guys have had that happen yeah I would imagine yeah how'd you flip when you were on Chris Christmas Day my sister she knows this just won't be news to her but it's probably not fun for her here every time tell it but we I had a pickup truck with the tape deck in it and I had she got me that Walkman CD with the adapter for the tape tape deck that you stick into you you know you cassette adapter and she bought me the Walkman cassette adapter and I'm in my pit I'm in I'm in my truck I got an extended cab s10 I'm driving from my house to my mom's house where family reunion is my dad's there everybody's there whole family's there I'm a little late and I'm driving down the road and I got to messing with that Walkman and I drove off into the ditch and I hit a driveway covert or pipe drainage pipe in the driveway and went like seven flips and destroyed this truck and in the middle of the flipping I remember that happening and everything all my change jacket anything that was loose in the car ended up down into one corner like floorboard everything sort of collects into that one corners it's spinning and it crushed a windshield down the mirror was down into the radio you know it was crushed the roof down real bad I was really lucky I had my hands on top of the steering wheel and the windshield kept slapping my knuckles and knocked almond busted all my knuckles real bad and so then I let go and my hands went this way and then I finally got him back in and grabbed the bottom of steering wheel it broke it the tires were flipped you know broken and busted off the truck and this I got out of the truck and I was fine didn't have any injuries other than just the knuckles kind of being scraped up this met this newly married couple they just are either got engaged or just got married were driving the other way and saw the whole thing and they stopped and they were like you all right I'm like yeah and of course there's this line of cars behind me stopped on the road and this one lady pulls up and I was like I need to borrow your cell phone to call my dad she's like you're in shock you need to sit down I was like now I'm not in shock I just needed barbar you cellphone so I walked in the next car and I got a cell phone from this person I call my dad and I was like dad I was like man I flipped my truck I had pay I had got finance this thing for five years paying $100 a month is perfect I was working at dealership changing oil probably making $130 a week and I mean just got this truck for probably two three months and used truck but it was it was good it's junk I called dad and I'm like man he's gonna be mad can't be too mad cuz I'm paying for the truck but he's mad at me because I'm screwing up family Union and Christmas he comes to get me I'd flip this truck real close to our where our farm was so he ran over to the farm and got this flatbed truck and he pulls out there with the flatbed truck and he pulls up and as soon as he pulls up state trooper pulls up and the state trooper guy and dad talked for a minute and got state troopers like you know one single car accident you okay everybody's okay dad dad are you gonna put this on the flatbed take it home yeah okay okay yeah hang on ain't gonna investigate or anything everything's cool y'all just go about you Ben and say he left so you did us a solid there and didn't give me a count traffic ticket and so me and dad put the truck on flatbed and we're driving back and he started laughing and I was like man I expected you to be really mad cuz he was a fiery kind of dad you know and pulled a belt out and go to town you know being he was a rough strict tough tough dude and so I thought I was gonna get a good cussing at least but he started laughing and I said man what's so funny and he goes I was 18 when this happened he goes when I was 18 years old I flipped my car he's like I can't get mad he's like it's just I'm just glad you're not hurt I'm like that's nice so we drove back I took pictures of it and got me it got any insurance for it got like 11 12 grand for the insurance to be able to buy another truck so don't work there

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Length: 12min 58sec (778 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 07 2018