well as most of you know I am a nascar fan just wanted to share some of the radio chatter from dale jr.
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BEST RADIO CONVERSATIONS
A nagging mist and a thick fog overcame the speedway early in the race, making it difficult see much of the action on the race track:
Steve Hmiel: (spotter) "You know those Sunday mornings in Pocono when they say it's too foggy to race? Well it's every bit as foggy right now."
Tony Eury Jr.: (crew chief) "Oh, I can believe it. I got a little nervous when they came back through the tri-oval that one time."
Dale Jr: "Not on this race track, as wore out as it is. I think it can be soaking wet, and we can still run wide open around it."
Hmiel: "It's like you're in a fog bank over there on the backstretch. It's really weird."
Tony Jr.: "It can't be good for television because when they show it on the screens, it's got water mist all over the lens."
Dale Jr: "It's not foggy everywhere I go..."
Hmiel: "Or maybe it's foggy all the time, right June?"
Dale Jr: "Ha! Maybe so. (pause). What happened to the 24 car?"
Tony Eury Sr.: "Transmission problems."
Hmiel: "When we were pushing real bad just before the previous caution, he got run into the fence off of turn two."
Dale Jr: "It looks like he has lots of damage. I just like to know what the competition is going to look like in the end."
As Dale Jr. took his first lead of the season on lap 27:
Hmiel: "Clear all around, June. There you go... five points toward your championship."
As Dale Jr. re-took the lead with a superb move past the leader:
Hmiel: "Clear! Wow, another one for the highlight film, boys!"
The fifth caution of the race involved Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart, two of the dominant drivers in this Daytona 500:
Dale Jr: "Did Matt just crash?"
Hmiel: "Sure did."
Dale Jr: "He hit something on the back straightaway?"
Hmiel: "Nah, I think they were just racing, and he got down on the flats."
Dale Jr: (impatiently) "No, I saw what happened in front of me. I'm asking if he just went spinning through the grass, or is competitive still."
Hmiel: "No, he hit the outside wall, Dale Jr."
Dale Jr: "Man, I tell ya, that was something! They need to show my in-car (camera). I got it all. And he's gonna be after Tony! (laughing)."
Hmiel: "You could kind of see it coming, couldn't you?"
Dale Jr: "I thought they were going to wreck before then. Tony did make it through the middle, and I thought we were good, and Matt tried to get behind Tony, and I was going to let him in instead of going to the outside. They kind of hit each other. Really nobody's fault. Tony was coming down, Matt was coming up, they weren't clear."
After the Bud pit crew put Junior in the lead for the third time:
Dale Jr.: "Good work, guys!"
Hmiel: (relaying NASCAR's official scoring) "The 8 in front of the 48. You got a helluva pit crew."
Dale Jr.: "You said it!"
Hmiel: (monitoring other teams' radio channels) "Rick Hendrick just told his guys if these had all been green flag pit stops, the 8 would have a lap on the field."
With a green-white-checkered sprint looming and Dale Jr. in fifth place, the team deliberated on strategy:
Dale Jr.: "The top (line) ain't worth a damn, but it's the only way you're going to win."
Hmiel: "Yeah, I know."
Dale Jr.: "I'm doing everything I can do. I'm just scared to go up there and lose all these spots. Your pit stops have been so good all day long, I hate to not get the finish it deserves. I want to go up there, but I'm afraid I'm going to lose a lot of spots up there."
Tony Jr.: "Do whatever you got to do, bud. Don't worry about that. Do the best you can do. You know more about what's going on there than we do."
Hmiel: "Ain't nobody gonna cuss a man for trying, right Tony Jr.?"
Tony Jr.: "Nope, never have. When you try, that's a plus. That's extra credit."
Dale Jr.: "I was trying. Ol' thing is pushing and everything else. This motor is like an old man. It'll wake up, run for awhile, and fall back asleep. (Long pause). I wish I knew what I had behind me, because I'm going to get a run on all these guys. We'll be single file on the restart, and they'll train me or three-wide me, or some crazy stuff."
Hmiel: "Yeah, nobody's been really friendly. But we're in good shape. You're doing a heckuva job man. Do what you're instincts tell you to do... Put the fear of disappointing anybody out of your mind and go for it. We'll carry you wherever you need to go. There's a good group of guys behind you."
Dale Jr.: "OK, I'm going for it."
daytona
BEST RADIO CONVERSATIONS
A nagging mist and a thick fog overcame the speedway early in the race, making it difficult see much of the action on the race track:
Steve Hmiel: (spotter) "You know those Sunday mornings in Pocono when they say it's too foggy to race? Well it's every bit as foggy right now."
Tony Eury Jr.: (crew chief) "Oh, I can believe it. I got a little nervous when they came back through the tri-oval that one time."
Dale Jr: "Not on this race track, as wore out as it is. I think it can be soaking wet, and we can still run wide open around it."
Hmiel: "It's like you're in a fog bank over there on the backstretch. It's really weird."
Tony Jr.: "It can't be good for television because when they show it on the screens, it's got water mist all over the lens."
Dale Jr: "It's not foggy everywhere I go..."
Hmiel: "Or maybe it's foggy all the time, right June?"
Dale Jr: "Ha! Maybe so. (pause). What happened to the 24 car?"
Tony Eury Sr.: "Transmission problems."
Hmiel: "When we were pushing real bad just before the previous caution, he got run into the fence off of turn two."
Dale Jr: "It looks like he has lots of damage. I just like to know what the competition is going to look like in the end."
As Dale Jr. took his first lead of the season on lap 27:
Hmiel: "Clear all around, June. There you go... five points toward your championship."
As Dale Jr. re-took the lead with a superb move past the leader:
Hmiel: "Clear! Wow, another one for the highlight film, boys!"
The fifth caution of the race involved Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart, two of the dominant drivers in this Daytona 500:
Dale Jr: "Did Matt just crash?"
Hmiel: "Sure did."
Dale Jr: "He hit something on the back straightaway?"
Hmiel: "Nah, I think they were just racing, and he got down on the flats."
Dale Jr: (impatiently) "No, I saw what happened in front of me. I'm asking if he just went spinning through the grass, or is competitive still."
Hmiel: "No, he hit the outside wall, Dale Jr."
Dale Jr: "Man, I tell ya, that was something! They need to show my in-car (camera). I got it all. And he's gonna be after Tony! (laughing)."
Hmiel: "You could kind of see it coming, couldn't you?"
Dale Jr: "I thought they were going to wreck before then. Tony did make it through the middle, and I thought we were good, and Matt tried to get behind Tony, and I was going to let him in instead of going to the outside. They kind of hit each other. Really nobody's fault. Tony was coming down, Matt was coming up, they weren't clear."
After the Bud pit crew put Junior in the lead for the third time:
Dale Jr.: "Good work, guys!"
Hmiel: (relaying NASCAR's official scoring) "The 8 in front of the 48. You got a helluva pit crew."
Dale Jr.: "You said it!"
Hmiel: (monitoring other teams' radio channels) "Rick Hendrick just told his guys if these had all been green flag pit stops, the 8 would have a lap on the field."
With a green-white-checkered sprint looming and Dale Jr. in fifth place, the team deliberated on strategy:
Dale Jr.: "The top (line) ain't worth a damn, but it's the only way you're going to win."
Hmiel: "Yeah, I know."
Dale Jr.: "I'm doing everything I can do. I'm just scared to go up there and lose all these spots. Your pit stops have been so good all day long, I hate to not get the finish it deserves. I want to go up there, but I'm afraid I'm going to lose a lot of spots up there."
Tony Jr.: "Do whatever you got to do, bud. Don't worry about that. Do the best you can do. You know more about what's going on there than we do."
Hmiel: "Ain't nobody gonna cuss a man for trying, right Tony Jr.?"
Tony Jr.: "Nope, never have. When you try, that's a plus. That's extra credit."
Dale Jr.: "I was trying. Ol' thing is pushing and everything else. This motor is like an old man. It'll wake up, run for awhile, and fall back asleep. (Long pause). I wish I knew what I had behind me, because I'm going to get a run on all these guys. We'll be single file on the restart, and they'll train me or three-wide me, or some crazy stuff."
Hmiel: "Yeah, nobody's been really friendly. But we're in good shape. You're doing a heckuva job man. Do what you're instincts tell you to do... Put the fear of disappointing anybody out of your mind and go for it. We'll carry you wherever you need to go. There's a good group of guys behind you."
Dale Jr.: "OK, I'm going for it."
