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DJD Reloaded - The Best Dale Jr. Impressions Mar 07, 2024

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Carla and Andrew are back in the Bojangles studio, and are joined this week by Karsyn Elledge of CARS Tour. With Dale on spring break, everyone gives their best Dale Jr. impressions, and JR Motorsports' own, Steven Steffen, stops by to join in on the fun. Plus, we open up the Dale Calls to hear the best impressions from fans. And we look back at the best moments from Tuesday's Dirty Air show, hosted by Ryan McGee.

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521 - Business of Motorsports with World Of Outlaws CEO Brian Carter Mar 06, 2024

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Kelley Earnhardt Miller welcomes World Racing Group CEO Brian Carter for the first edition of the Business of Motorsports for the 2024 season. After growing up a racing fan in Texas, Carter ventured into the business finance world working for Deloitte and specializing in public to private transactions. In the early 2000s, while working with a software company, he was approached by the owners of Boundless Motorsports, who were in the process of purchasing the World of Outlaws and United Midwest Promoters operations. Carter jumped at the opportunity to get involved with the dirt racing enterprise, and a short time later he became CEO of what is now known as World Racing Group.

Brian and Kelley discuss the state of the motorsports business world in the early 2000s, when a lot of major racing entities such as NASCAR, Speedway Motorsports Inc and WRG were publicly traded companies. He also explains the vertical structure of WRG, which encompasses 15 dirt touring series across the country, sanctioning racing in many different divisions of short track cars. The interview covers WRG’s streaming platform DirtVision and its impact on increasing awareness and exposure on both a weekly and national racing scale. Carter explains that having more of WRG’s events available for countrywide viewership has not only helped create an influx of sponsorship funding for short track racers, but it's helped bring new spectators through the track gates.

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520 - Dirty Air with Ryan McGee: The Best Advice Dale Earnhardt Ever Gave Me Mar 05, 2024

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is on spring break, so his longtime friend and co-author of “Racing to the Finish” Ryan McGee is filling in. You might recognize Ryan from his longtime coverage of motorsports for ESPN and his popular show with recent Download guest Marty Smith, “Marty & McGee.” There was a lot to discuss after a full weekend of NASCAR action in Las Vegas:

Writing “Racing to the Finish” with Dale Jr.
Working with Dale Sr. as a young reporter
Rajah Caruth’s big first Truck win
John Hunter Nemechek continues to excel
What Kyle Larson’s 24th NASCAR Cup win really means

During as special “Ask McGee” segment, listeners tuned into YouTube live and sent in questions about:

Ryan’s favorite Dale Jr. stories
What he learned about Dale Jr. while writing the book
What it’s like working on “Marty & McGee”

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DJD Reloaded - All About Cheaters Feb 29, 2024

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Andrew and Carla recap all the cheating news across NASCAR this week, welcome Kip Childress, Executive Director of CARS Tour, to the Bojangles studio, and driver Bubba Pollard joins to announce his Xfinity Series opportunity at JR Motorsports.

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519 - Waddell Wilson: NASCAR's Pioneer Of Speed Feb 28, 2024

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. invites NASCAR Hall of Fame engine builder and crew chief Waddell Wilson to the Bojangles Studio for a conversation about his storied career. Waddell details his journey from his home of Bakersville, North Carolina to the Nashville Auto Diesel College, which he learned about from a recruiter at his high school. Upon graduation, his journey took him to Florida, where he actually took a chance on racing himself at Miami-area strongholds like Hialeah, Palmetto and Hollywood. Eventually, a demolished racecar would extinguish his hopes of making a living behind the wheel and he headed back home in search of work.

Waddell explains that at the suggestion of a friend he went to inquire about a job at the famed Holman-Moody race team, which at the time was Ford’s manufacturing arm in NASCAR. After a chance meeting with owner John Holman, Waddell was thrown into the most challenging area of the shop: the engine room. He passed an initiation of sorts and over time developed into one of NASCAR’s greatest engine building minds. Waddell went on to build engines for and work with some of NASCAR’s greatest drivers, and he fills listeners in on the characters inside the helmet like Fireball Roberts, Bobby Allison and Buddy Baker. Finally, Dale gets to pick Waddell’s brain about the legendary “Gray Ghost” Oldsmobile that helped Ranier Racing and Buddy Baker be a dominant force at superspeedways in 1979 and ‘80.

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518 - Atlanta: What More Could You Ask For? There Is ONE Thing... Feb 27, 2024

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been singing the praises of the Atlanta Motor Speedway reconfiguration since last season, and the track delivered one of the best finishes in NASCAR history this past Sunday. There was much to cover from weekend two of the NASCAR schedule on this edition of Dirty Air:

The critics have been quieted
Reconfiguring tracks through iRacing technology
Joey Logano’s gloves and new creativity
Atlanta race winner Daniel Suárez calls in
Rethinking how we film Atlanta’s races
Fuel saving in the Xfinity race

When the Download gang took to Youtube live for the Ask Jr. segment, listeners wrote in questions regarding:

Being a youth sports coach
Strangest place Dale has been recognized
New house projects
Story behind the Oreo/Ritz mash-up car
Running a half marathon

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DJD Reloaded - Alex Bowman Joins, Dale Jr. Breaks News, and Ray Evernham's Untold Stories Feb 22, 2024

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Alex Bowman joins to talk about his runner-up finish in the 500, Dale Jr. stops by to break some news. Plus, Andrew goes Man On The Street down in Daytona and asks drivers/fans what they'd be willing to sacrifice for a championship. And hear some of Ray Evernham's untold stories.

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517 - Ray Evernham: The Secret Alliance With Dale Earnhardt Feb 21, 2024

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. reunites with legendary NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham to talk about his new book and catch up on his life since his last appearance in 2020. The book, titled “Trophies and Scars” is an autobiography that Ray explains is designed to help show his family and friends who have helped him along the way how he’s evolved over the years. Ray says that a couple of the bigger moments outlined in the book are how the success of fellow modified racer Tony Siscone inspired him to take things to the next level in 1983 and his departure from Hendrick Motorsports in 1999. Dale also inquired more about Ray leaving Jeff Gordon and what in retrospect could have been done to prevent the split from happening.

They dive into Ray’s growth from being a journeyman chassis engineer to one of the most prominent crew chiefs in the ‘90s, to which Ray credits taking lessons from other leaders like Jeff Hammond and reading books written by successful coaches. Ray discusses having great admiration for Dale Earnhardt Sr. but having to learn to turn it off when it came to competing on track. The interview also goes on to discuss Ray’s time with IROC in the ‘80s and how he came to acquire the name and trademark this year, his future plans for the once legendary series, his departure from SRX and how he helped revolutionize the NASCAR Cup pit crew.

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516 - Daytona 500 Recap: Amy Joins & Byron Calls In Feb 20, 2024

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is back from a rainy weekend in Daytona to deliver another edition of Dirty Air. Despite Mother Nature proving to be unpredictable scrambling the weekend schedule, there was still a lot of NASCAR action to unpack:

Amy is in the house to set the record straight
Dale experiences a parking fiasco
What can be done to cut down on wrecks in the Truck races?
The latest on the NASCAR charter negotiations
Daytona 500 Champion William Byron calls in
How was the finish actually determined?

During the Ask Jr. portion of the episode, listeners sent in questions regarding:

Dale’s favorite Girl Scout cookie
Favorite Earnhardt family tradition?
Is Dale a good gift giver?
Isla and Nicole playing sports

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Daytona preview, listening to 'Dale Calls', and Jeff Gordon's Favorite Rap Song Feb 15, 2024

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This week on DJD Reloaded, Casey, Travis, and Andrew get you ready for the 66th running of The Great American Race and Carla joins from Daytona to give an update from the track. Plus, we hear from the 'Dale Calls' fan line, and Jeff Gordon shares his favorite rap song.

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