I can imagine getting sabotage each race while you in the mis of competing for a championship,no way he shouldn't have 5 blow engines in one season it's like some one is putting a curse on his championship hopes.
UrinatingTree once said that the soap opera is an underrated aspect to professional sport. Jr's 2007 season is one of NASCAR's most notable soap opera seasons
Yep. What's interesting to me is that he had twice as many engine failures than Truex (MTJ had 3, Jr. had 6), and 4 of Dale's were after he announced that he was leaving for Hendrick. I also question the Atlanta crash during the Chase as well.
What's more insane to think about is that if it wasn't for all the engine failures, this 2007 season would have had a much more respectable statline. Jr wasn't even tanking in performance, it's just real unfortunate luck.
It wasn’t luck. It was all orchestrated, from Queen Bitch all the way to the engine shop. If he had the nerve to leave they were gonna ensure a championship run was impossible but ensuring his engines would detonate.
DEI was supposed to be a dream come true family venture for the entire Earnhardt family. Teresa drove DEI into the ground and basically crushed her own husband’s dream. Dale Jr left DEI because he could no longer put up with Teresa’s disastrous management of the business his father founded. 2007 was when Dale Jr’s frustration finally reached the boiling point.
A tumultuous season for Jr to say the least. From the falling out with DEI to his on track performance being lackluster it certainly was a season for the books.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s career could’ve been much better, but on-and-off the track incidents plagued his life and career. It’s sad, he could’ve been a multi Cup Series Champion.
He’s still got A LOT of career highlights to be very proud of! How many drivers can brag about winning multiple Daytona 500’s and have that great win streak at Talladega SuperSpeedway?
I always remembered this season when I was younger and was always left in disappointment because he would have an engine failure or some type of mechanical failure. It’s not like these failures happened when he was mired in the back but when he was running top 5 so that made it much more heartbreaking. 2007 felt more of a transitional season leading up to his arrival at Hendrick.
2007 in general felt like a transitional season, 2006 was the last season of the Gen 4 whereas 2007 they ran Gen 4 on all 1.5 and up tracks and the Car of Tomorrow on the shorter ovals and road courses, then 2008 came and the racing sucked, the cars drove horribly, tires were controversial nearly ever fast oval and then 2009 comes and most of the issues with the cars were ironed out and the racing in general got better.
Dale Jr.‘s 2007 season is nearly identical to Michael Waltrip’s 2005 season, performance wise. Both ran well enough in the first 26 races to make The Chase each of those years, but had horrific luck that cost both of them wins & Chase berths in those seasons. Very ironic that two of DEI’s biggest faces had horrific ends to their DEI tenure.
IIRC, Junior was actually instrumental in the 2005 team swap. (He had fallen out with the Eurys at the end of 04 and thought it would be beneficial. He later said he wasn't mature enough to make that decision.)
You can just see the pain,and anxiety in his press conference speaking of DEI. And then the relief ,excitement, happiness announcing the HMS partnership
2007 I was so excited that Junior announced that he was going to Hendrick! He was like Christmas came early, and then Christmas was going to be 9 months long the next year. But I think him and his cousin moving together was in the long run a bad move cuz they had such bad habits they developed over the years. The communication was just horrible between the two of them during races. I think I've even heard Junior comment about it that it was just as much his fault as it was his cousins. Although he may not have gotten all the wins the first three or four years once he moved, Hendrick Motorsports and his teammates taught him a lot of stuff. Like how to train to be a champion..
Dale JR is the biggest what if in nascar history. Still a deserving hall of famer but he probably coulda been twice as good if things went differently than they did.
I wholeheartedly agree, look how fast he was in 2004, that was with the old school cars before coil binding and side force became a thing, there's no way he could have ran as good with those cars if he was a lousy driver.
What I find odd is....... out of THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of views, only hundreds thumbed up this video?? It was, factual, informative, and if you're a NASCAR kinda person, why wouldn't you 'thumbs up' the vid? Great content, man.
I remember this season and how Dale Jr.'s engine would blow anytime someone looked at it funny. I've always thought Teresa had something to do with it, but we'll never know for sure.
Just remember that in exchange for getting Dale Jr. and keeping Casey Mears, Rick Hendrick gave Kyle Busch to Joe Gibbs on a silver platter. Jr. would wins 9 times in 10 years and didn’t win 5 and a half seasons (2009-2012 and 2013) while Kyle Busch won a title and over 40 wins in that same time frame. Day what you will about him but Mr. H has had some blunders during his time in NASCAR.
No argument that KB outperformed Jr by far on their respective teams, but this was no accident or blunder by Rick Hendrick. He HAD his winning drivers in Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. By hiring Dale Jr, he hired the sport's most popular driver and it wasn't even close. That means a lot more sponsorship money, merchandising and advertising money. KB didn't have that kind of pull even if he was a nice dude.
@@nikopappas8484 That’s true. Getting Jr. was great because more money means more investment in the team but when you talk about the driver, it was a goose egg. I’m not saying it was a complete failure, he won the Daytona 500 again but Kyle Busch is a guy who has spent almost two decades saying that anything other than 1st is a failure.
Hendrick still won the war. Gibbs literally has been better than Hendrick since 2015 due to Toyota pumping more into NASCAR, Hendrick drivers getting older, Chevy mishandling of the Chevy Cup bodies, and Gibbs still have less championships 3 to 2.
Dale Jr.s podcast with Ty Norris was mind blowing and I’m not gonna lie it was a definite shocker! I still go back and listen to it just to hear how DEI was becoming the new McCoy of a race team but when Sr. passed in the Daytona 500 in 2001 the new McCoy was in the balance with Teresa becoming the bait... sure they had great moments but not a Cup series championship... I always ask what could’ve been if Dale Sr. was alive retired from racing and be a fullest team owner and be involved in everything that will be at DEIs table...
i remember watching that Texas race on tv. them saying jr was in the 5.. i nearly shat myself lmao..and i was there at Pocono when he finished second to kurt..sadly i never got to experience my favorite driver winning a race in person
If Teresa just would've given him majority of the ownership at DEI idk if dale jr would've won a championship as a driver but definitely would've gotten that organization championships with other drivers. Like that video you made "what if dale jr stayed at DEI?" I think drivers like Brad keselowski, Matt Kenseth and maybe even Martin truex Jr would've won championships for DEI. I think looking at truex jr 2007 season he proved that he had what it took but unfortunately truex suffered a few more years at that team and couldn't show what he was truly capable of because DEI at that point was on life support. I remember once dale jr missed the 2007 chase I didn't even wanna watch for the rest of the season but obviously I did. I was just ready for 2008 at that point because he was going to hendrick. 2007 should've been a season similar to his 06 season just with more wins. Should've won 2-3 races that year and made another run at the championship.
And just think what could have happened if all that bullshit didn’t happen. I think Jr would have won at least 4 races and he definitely would have been in the mix for that championship battle between Johnson and Gordon
2 engine failures in the first 18 races. He had 4 engine failures from race 20 - Brickyard 400 to Race 30 - Dega Fall Race including the 3 that he had prior to the Chase that essentially knocked him out. To put that into perspective, Dale Jr had 6 engine failures in 2007. He didn’t get to 6 engine failures at Hendrick until 2013, his 6th season at Hendrick. Teresa pulled strings to fuck Dale Jr out of the Chase.
If Dale Sr didn't die, there is a big chance that Dale Jr would be a Cup champion as well with D.E.I. sticking around and that Jr never would've gone to Hendrick and stayed with his dad's team What do you think?
“Hendrick lame duck Kyle Busch” followed by Jr winning 2 races in 6 years in the same car. Come on Iceberg, I love you but be realistic here. Kyle Busch runs circles around anything compared to Jr.
Yeah he is jr cost him a shot at the championship in 07 and jr sucked at Hendrick for the first 5 years and busch has been a top 10 driver till 2015 then a top 5 driver since then at jgr
Teresa didn't what Dale Jr to have DEI and decided it would make he happier to destroy it. What's the lady doing today? She ruined Dale Earnhardt's legacy, it's sad...
My question is How could have Teresa made those engines bad ? If she had helped who complied and turned their back on jr ? The whole engine department, his team ??
Kyle Busch was told by one of the crew guys that the car was totaled and was ticked off when he heard that they took the car back out. Kyle said this on Dale Jr Download. He didn’t have any ill will towards Jr, but he was mad the crew guys who told him they weren’t going to put the 5 back out, and then they turned around and put Dale Jr in the car. Kyle literally thought the day was done so he went home.
Well we'll know by by 2007 dei was a sinking ship I was never really a huge fan of Dale Earnhardt Jr But it was a Jeff Gordon fan so there's that But I'll say his 2007 season doesn't disappoint me his tenure at Hendrick Motorsports disappoints me from Dale Earnhardt Jr I expected him to raise his level of competition to that elite level of Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson and he just didn't do it I just always viewed it as danger doesn't really fit the the mold of an HMS driver Celebrity wise he fits in there I think he would have fit in a whole lot better at a place like RCR after he left the EI being around people that he spent his childhood with I think would have made him a whole lot more competitive But that's just my opinion
Swapping the 8 and 15 team wasn't a bonehead move it was the wicked witch trying to sabotage Junebug. And no I'm not a delusional Jr Nation member, I was extremely neutral on him until he went to Hendrick then I started appreciating him more.
Dale Jr's 2007 Stats: 0 Wins 7 Top 5s 12 Top 10s An 18.6 Average Finish Along with 9 DNFs (6 of which were Engine Failures) and a 16th Place Points Finish
May as well just forget about Dale Jr's entire career with the cot and start paying attention with the gen6 since he started winning alot again in the gen6
I WAS a jr fan since the AC delco days but that all turned.. As much as I hated that Teresa strained Jr's. career with DEI, it absolutely disgusted me the moment I heard him going to the Rick Hendrick organization. Because of this I immediately stopped being his fan. To me Gordon and Johnson was thee enemy and then having to see him join "the dark empire" totally pissed me off. I felt totally betrayed. Any memorabilia I had of jr, I sold. I rather had him form his own cup team, I mean he had Chance 2 so why not bring that team up into the cup series and associate himself with Truex? He would of been his own boss. Sponsorship wouldn't of been a problem because of his name and the sport was still popular at the time. Fast forward to now despite with the great equipment that was provided from Hendrick, Jr. still couldn't manage to win a championship which makes me wonder how is he in the HOF before other legendary names is beyond me. Although, I have alot of respect for him because how much he still dedicates himself to motorsports, to old school racing, and in helping preserve racing history however, I'll never get over how he did that one thing.
Yes Teresa and Dale formed the DEI race team together but it’s such a shame and so disappointed that Teresa essentially destroyed DEI because she wanted to keep the son of the legend himself out of his own fathers business so to speak. Honored her late husband by destroying his race team after she refused to give part ownership to the man’s own son.
Dale SR. Had it set up that JR. Would take DEI. Someone else had other plans. Dale going to Hendricks, was a wise choice. Dale Dr. Would Appreciate that. Darrell Waltrip does because he cares for Dale Earnhardt Jr! Like all of us. Daytona! Let's go Racing boys!!!!!
4 engine failures towards the end of the season? I feel like Sabatage might have been a key factor at the end there. Think about it, he announced he was leaving at the end of 2007, and then issues started happening. I Also think It's kind of funny how when Dale Jr. wrecked kyle busch, no big deal, when kyle busch wrecks Dale Jr. in 2008, "KYLE BUSCH IS EVIL!!! FUCK HIM!!" I personally was a fan of both drivers but this did kind of tick me off, I get Kyle Busch was not many people's favorite but dang... that was just unfair.
I was pissed when he left DEI for Hendrick so I thought all those blown engines were just desserts. However, Truex had blown engines as well that season that ruined his Chase run, so I think the engine program was just garbage.
The real winner in this is Joe Gibbs. He basically had Kyle Busch fall into his lap out of nowhere and Kyle Busch has been way more successful than Jr. Hendrick also looks bad in this cause he let him go for a marketing machine in Jr. I think him going to HMS was the biggest mistake of his like, he was never going get better equipment than Johnson and Gordon. Should of gone somewhere else.
Theresa Earnhardt nose dived A respected racing team DEI Into the ground a lot of good crew members left even Dale sr.s right hand man it is sad that DEI WAS SPLINTERED BECAUSE OF HER
If it's a high profile name, you cannot tell me that there is no internal sabotage look at this and look at Kyle Bush in 2022 unheard number of engine failures in a single season in a lame duck season. Don't know who at JGR but you cannot tell me that Teresa was not behind the engine failures i call bullshit
I remember Rusty Wallace saying something along the lines of "I thought with all of the sweat and equity of Dale Sr. put into this company, "Don't worry, It's all gonna pay off. When you're not blood that's huge. And Dale and Teresa aren't blood".. but in retrospect, 15 years later (damn, I feel so old) I think he did the right thing by moving to Hendrick... buy the best part is... Dale Jr got the last laugh, by winning 3 Xfinity Championships in 4 years... with JR Motorsports....
Dale jr by far most overrated driver when he went to hms in history he never truly competed for a championship with hms sure he was good in 2014 and 15 but was knocked out in round of 12. I give him a pass though in 12 and 16 due to concussions. I'm glad jr sucked at hms after costing busch a shot at the title in 07 and jr fans whining and complaining when kb got revenge at richmond in 08 and jr shouldn't be a hall of Famer didn't consistley put up good numbers or win enough races to get in without a championship for the hof I only look at what you did on track
During the 2000s the NASCAR sure rigged and tried to fix a lot of races for this joker, some worked others didn't. It speaks volumes when you can't even win a fixed race!
What do you think is the most interesting NASCAR bad season?
The RYR collapse of 2007
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Tony Stewart 2006 because that season was a winner or wall for him LOL
Not a bad season but how Tony Stewary missed the 2006 Chase
He was basically on par on how he was in 2005
Conspiracy: After the Jr. & HMS partnership announcement, Teresa made sure that Dale had issues during the remaining races.
It can't be a coincidence that all the engine failures started around the announcement
No matter what you think of Teresa, she isn’t as bad as Claire Williams.
I can imagine getting sabotage each race while you in the mis of competing for a championship,no way he shouldn't have 5 blow engines in one season it's like some one is putting a curse on his championship hopes.
Would Teresa even have been capable of sabotaging the engines to begin with?
@@sulphurous2656 no
But that doesn't mean she wouldn't threaten the right person with their job to do so
Those GEN 4's were gorgeous and especially with that bright all red number 8 bud car! Iconic car
UrinatingTree once said that the soap opera is an underrated aspect to professional sport. Jr's 2007 season is one of NASCAR's most notable soap opera seasons
You can not convince me otherwise that Teresa Earnhardt had some role in the engine failures Dale Jr had in 2007 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Yep. What's interesting to me is that he had twice as many engine failures than Truex (MTJ had 3, Jr. had 6), and 4 of Dale's were after he announced that he was leaving for Hendrick. I also question the Atlanta crash during the Chase as well.
@@TM42 Menard also had an engine failure that season as well as Almirola post-merger. The engine program was just awful overall.
ECR engines just weren’t that good
It’s not a conspiracy
What's more insane to think about is that if it wasn't for all the engine failures, this 2007 season would have had a much more respectable statline. Jr wasn't even tanking in performance, it's just real unfortunate luck.
It wasn’t luck. It was all orchestrated, from Queen Bitch all the way to the engine shop. If he had the nerve to leave they were gonna ensure a championship run was impossible but ensuring his engines would detonate.
DEI was supposed to be a dream come true family venture for the entire Earnhardt family. Teresa drove DEI into the ground and basically crushed her own husband’s dream.
Dale Jr left DEI because he could no longer put up with Teresa’s disastrous management of the business his father founded. 2007 was when Dale Jr’s frustration finally reached the boiling point.
A tumultuous season for Jr to say the least. From the falling out with DEI to his on track performance being lackluster it certainly was a season for the books.
his 2007 season is one of the best examples of stats in a season not being the best representation of a driver's season
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s career could’ve been much better, but on-and-off the track incidents plagued his life and career. It’s sad, he could’ve been a multi Cup Series Champion.
Definitely without the injuries and fall off of DEI I think he would have at least won one championship
He’s still got A LOT of career highlights to be very proud of! How many drivers can brag about winning multiple Daytona 500’s and have that great win streak at Talladega SuperSpeedway?
No way
I always remembered this season when I was younger and was always left in disappointment because he would have an engine failure or some type of mechanical failure. It’s not like these failures happened when he was mired in the back but when he was running top 5 so that made it much more heartbreaking. 2007 felt more of a transitional season leading up to his arrival at Hendrick.
2007 in general felt like a transitional season, 2006 was the last season of the Gen 4 whereas 2007 they ran Gen 4 on all 1.5 and up tracks and the Car of Tomorrow on the shorter ovals and road courses, then 2008 came and the racing sucked, the cars drove horribly, tires were controversial nearly ever fast oval and then 2009 comes and most of the issues with the cars were ironed out and the racing in general got better.
I remember watching the 2007 Richmond race on TV as a kid...
Painful
Dale Jr.‘s 2007 season is nearly identical to Michael Waltrip’s 2005 season, performance wise.
Both ran well enough in the first 26 races to make The Chase each of those years, but had horrific luck that cost both of them wins & Chase berths in those seasons.
Very ironic that two of DEI’s biggest faces had horrific ends to their DEI tenure.
IIRC, Junior was actually instrumental in the 2005 team swap. (He had fallen out with the Eurys at the end of 04 and thought it would be beneficial. He later said he wasn't mature enough to make that decision.)
Even Junior has said in recent years that he regrets that move
You can just see the pain,and anxiety in his press conference speaking of DEI. And then the relief ,excitement, happiness announcing the HMS partnership
2007 I was so excited that Junior announced that he was going to Hendrick! He was like Christmas came early, and then Christmas was going to be 9 months long the next year. But I think him and his cousin moving together was in the long run a bad move cuz they had such bad habits they developed over the years. The communication was just horrible between the two of them during races. I think I've even heard Junior comment about it that it was just as much his fault as it was his cousins. Although he may not have gotten all the wins the first three or four years once he moved, Hendrick Motorsports and his teammates taught him a lot of stuff. Like how to train to be a champion..
Dale JR is the biggest what if in nascar history. Still a deserving hall of famer but he probably coulda been twice as good if things went differently than they did.
I wholeheartedly agree, look how fast he was in 2004, that was with the old school cars before coil binding and side force became a thing, there's no way he could have ran as good with those cars if he was a lousy driver.
@@PaperBanjo64 Something happened to him after 2004. Idk what, but he was never the same after that season.
What I find odd is....... out of THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of views, only hundreds thumbed up this video?? It was, factual, informative, and if you're a NASCAR kinda person, why wouldn't you 'thumbs up' the vid? Great content, man.
I remember this season and how Dale Jr.'s engine would blow anytime someone looked at it funny. I've always thought Teresa had something to do with it, but we'll never know for sure.
This was Teresa Earnhardt's fault! She was really pushing Dale Jr. out the door.
More like Jr crying I want my daddies race team or I'm leaving, Teresa just showed him the door.
@@P46345 lol yeah, she sure ran it well, so good that she ran it in the ground out of spite.
the fact that Kyle Busch could have been the 2007 Cup Champion still impressive
The shrub joke was hilarious 😂
Just remember that in exchange for getting Dale Jr. and keeping Casey Mears, Rick Hendrick gave Kyle Busch to Joe Gibbs on a silver platter. Jr. would wins 9 times in 10 years and didn’t win 5 and a half seasons (2009-2012 and 2013) while Kyle Busch won a title and over 40 wins in that same time frame. Day what you will about him but Mr. H has had some blunders during his time in NASCAR.
No argument that KB outperformed Jr by far on their respective teams, but this was no accident or blunder by Rick Hendrick. He HAD his winning drivers in Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. By hiring Dale Jr, he hired the sport's most popular driver and it wasn't even close. That means a lot more sponsorship money, merchandising and advertising money. KB didn't have that kind of pull even if he was a nice dude.
@@nikopappas8484 That’s true. Getting Jr. was great because more money means more investment in the team but when you talk about the driver, it was a goose egg. I’m not saying it was a complete failure, he won the Daytona 500 again but Kyle Busch is a guy who has spent almost two decades saying that anything other than 1st is a failure.
Hendrick still won the war. Gibbs literally has been better than Hendrick since 2015 due to Toyota pumping more into NASCAR, Hendrick drivers getting older, Chevy mishandling of the Chevy Cup bodies, and Gibbs still have less championships 3 to 2.
Yeah kyle busch would smoke jr everyday of his career except superspeedway. Kyle Busch is by far better than jr and will be even as a team owner
He was fast but his engines SUCKEDDDD
I couldn’t possibly imagine what Dale Sr. would do if he witnessed what Teresa did to his racing company. It’s so sad.
Agree!
Teresa basically drove DEI into the ground and crushed her own husband’s dream.
Dale Jr.s podcast with Ty Norris was mind blowing and I’m not gonna lie it was a definite shocker! I still go back and listen to it just to hear how DEI was becoming the new McCoy of a race team but when Sr. passed in the Daytona 500 in 2001 the new McCoy was in the balance with Teresa becoming the bait... sure they had great moments but not a Cup series championship...
I always ask what could’ve been if Dale Sr. was alive retired from racing and be a fullest team owner and be involved in everything that will be at DEIs table...
That episode was so amazing and eye opening. I encourage any fan of Sr, Jr, DEI, or racing in general during that decade to listen to it.
i remember watching that Texas race on tv. them saying jr was in the 5.. i nearly shat myself lmao..and i was there at Pocono when he finished second to kurt..sadly i never got to experience my favorite driver winning a race in person
If Teresa just would've given him majority of the ownership at DEI idk if dale jr would've won a championship as a driver but definitely would've gotten that organization championships with other drivers. Like that video you made "what if dale jr stayed at DEI?" I think drivers like Brad keselowski, Matt Kenseth and maybe even Martin truex Jr would've won championships for DEI. I think looking at truex jr 2007 season he proved that he had what it took but unfortunately truex suffered a few more years at that team and couldn't show what he was truly capable of because DEI at that point was on life support. I remember once dale jr missed the 2007 chase I didn't even wanna watch for the rest of the season but obviously I did. I was just ready for 2008 at that point because he was going to hendrick. 2007 should've been a season similar to his 06 season just with more wins. Should've won 2-3 races that year and made another run at the championship.
And just think what could have happened if all that bullshit didn’t happen. I think Jr would have won at least 4 races and he definitely would have been in the mix for that championship battle between Johnson and Gordon
I was at the race that dale jr ran his grandpa's tan car at michigan
2 engine failures in the first 18 races. He had 4 engine failures from race 20 - Brickyard 400 to Race 30 - Dega Fall Race including the 3 that he had prior to the Chase that essentially knocked him out.
To put that into perspective, Dale Jr had 6 engine failures in 2007. He didn’t get to 6 engine failures at Hendrick until 2013, his 6th season at Hendrick. Teresa pulled strings to fuck Dale Jr out of the Chase.
Always thought was 07 was bad. Didn't know he was top 10 if not for bad luck.
Hard to see anything but 09 as his worst season
He was very bad in 2010 too
@@iagofreitas910 not as bad as 09
@@JayStephens8 agree
This is the year I started watching NASCAR and this is how I was introduced to him.
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If Dale Sr didn't die, there is a big chance that Dale Jr would be a Cup champion as well with D.E.I. sticking around and that Jr never would've gone to Hendrick and stayed with his dad's team
What do you think?
@EpikProductionz The original plan was for him to drive part time in cup in the 30 car
“Hendrick lame duck Kyle Busch” followed by Jr winning 2 races in 6 years in the same car.
Come on Iceberg, I love you but be realistic here. Kyle Busch runs circles around anything compared to Jr.
Yeah he is jr cost him a shot at the championship in 07 and jr sucked at Hendrick for the first 5 years and busch has been a top 10 driver till 2015 then a top 5 driver since then at jgr
You should do a video on 5 drivers stuck in bad equipment
Teresa didn't what Dale Jr to have DEI and decided it would make he happier to destroy it.
What's the lady doing today?
She ruined Dale Earnhardt's legacy, it's sad...
Dale would be turning over in his grave if he knew about all those rotten things Teresa did to DEI and the entire Earnhardt family.
_if DEI had a pantry of clustered everything…_
*engine expiration date: 2006*
My question is How could have Teresa made those engines bad ? If she had helped who complied and turned their back on jr ? The whole engine department, his team ??
This was my first full nascar season to watch. As a Jr fan, I was pullin for Eury Jr not to return
Imagine what would have been in Jr DID get a majority steak in DEI. I mean, just look at JR Motorsports in XFinity, one of the top teams!
Kyle Busch was told by one of the crew guys that the car was totaled and was ticked off when he heard that they took the car back out. Kyle said this on Dale Jr Download. He didn’t have any ill will towards Jr, but he was mad the crew guys who told him they weren’t going to put the 5 back out, and then they turned around and put Dale Jr in the car.
Kyle literally thought the day was done so he went home.
Well we'll know by by 2007 dei was a sinking ship
I was never really a huge fan of Dale Earnhardt Jr
But it was a Jeff Gordon fan so there's that
But I'll say his 2007 season doesn't disappoint me his tenure at Hendrick Motorsports disappoints me from Dale Earnhardt Jr
I expected him to raise his level of competition to that elite level of Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson and he just didn't do it
I just always viewed it as danger doesn't really fit the the mold of an HMS driver
Celebrity wise he fits in there
I think he would have fit in a whole lot better at a place like RCR after he left the EI being around people that he spent his childhood with I think would have made him a whole lot more competitive
But that's just my opinion
Great video as always 09 and 10 were God awful seasons worst in his career
I think the really interesting thing is what happens to DEI whenever something happens to Teressa. Does go to Dale Jr or does it go to someone else?
Swapping the 8 and 15 team wasn't a bonehead move it was the wicked witch trying to sabotage Junebug. And no I'm not a delusional Jr Nation member, I was extremely neutral on him until he went to Hendrick then I started appreciating him more.
Ban JOHN HAAS from Nascar comments and YOU TUBE.
Mine would be 2009 where at Hendrick without a doubt the top team in NASCAR Dale Jr finished 25th in points
My opinion his step was having dale Jr's engine's blow like that on purpose
Love you Dale Jr. I think you are doing a wonderful job
Love the non existent dale jr audio 😂😂😂
Dale Jr's 2007 Stats:
0 Wins
7 Top 5s
12 Top 10s
An 18.6 Average Finish
Along with 9 DNFs (6 of which were Engine Failures) and a 16th Place Points Finish
Nice vid man
May as well just forget about Dale Jr's entire career with the cot and start paying attention with the gen6 since he started winning alot again in the gen6
I really thought his 2009 season was worse
I agree, but I think the point was that '07 was the most *interesting* bad season.
I thought swapping teams was jr's idea
Ironic that you’d post this so close to his NASCAR Hall of Fame Induction…
i did not think jrs season was that fast in term of speed... i always assumed the car was slow
I WAS a jr fan since the AC delco days but that all turned..
As much as I hated that Teresa strained Jr's. career with DEI, it absolutely disgusted me the moment I heard him going to the Rick Hendrick organization. Because of this I immediately stopped being his fan. To me Gordon and Johnson was thee enemy and then having to see him join "the dark empire" totally pissed me off. I felt totally betrayed. Any memorabilia I had of jr, I sold. I rather had him form his own cup team, I mean he had Chance 2 so why not bring that team up into the cup series and associate himself with Truex? He would of been his own boss. Sponsorship wouldn't of been a problem because of his name and the sport was still popular at the time. Fast forward to now despite with the great equipment that was provided from Hendrick, Jr. still couldn't manage to win a championship which makes me wonder how is he in the HOF before other legendary names is beyond me.
Although, I have alot of respect for him because how much he still dedicates himself to motorsports, to old school racing, and in helping preserve racing history however, I'll never get over how he did that one thing.
That was a horrible season Dale Earnhardt Jr had in 2007
Yes Teresa and Dale formed the DEI race team together but it’s such a shame and so disappointed that Teresa essentially destroyed DEI because she wanted to keep the son of the legend himself out of his own fathers business so to speak.
Honored her late husband by destroying his race team after she refused to give part ownership to the man’s own son.
I love his sister. Very amazing Angel
Teresa: *doesn't sell DEI to Jr because its not for sale*
also Teresa: *sells to Chip Ganassi*
When Dale Jr left DEI. I thought Jr would join Joe Gibbs cause he a Washington Redskins fan.
Yea theresa m8ght have had something to do with it. But i seriously think jr said F it after he knew he was going to Hendrick.
Dale SR. Had it set up that JR. Would take DEI. Someone else had other plans. Dale going to Hendricks, was a wise choice. Dale Dr. Would Appreciate that. Darrell Waltrip does because he cares for Dale Earnhardt Jr! Like all of us. Daytona! Let's go Racing boys!!!!!
He ended KB's season? I think that made me like Jr even more lol
4 engine failures towards the end of the season? I feel like Sabatage might have been a key factor at the end there. Think about it, he announced he was leaving at the end of 2007, and then issues started happening.
I Also think It's kind of funny how when Dale Jr. wrecked kyle busch, no big deal, when kyle busch wrecks Dale Jr. in 2008, "KYLE BUSCH IS EVIL!!! FUCK HIM!!"
I personally was a fan of both drivers but this did kind of tick me off, I get Kyle Busch was not many people's favorite but dang... that was just unfair.
I was pissed when he left DEI for Hendrick so I thought all those blown engines were just desserts. However, Truex had blown engines as well that season that ruined his Chase run, so I think the engine program was just garbage.
I love your videos but it was nothing like going to Darth Vader.
If dale sr ran dei now jr would I think would have 2 championships and dei would be rivals in wins with stewart haas.
The real winner in this is Joe Gibbs. He basically had Kyle Busch fall into his lap out of nowhere and Kyle Busch has been way more successful than Jr. Hendrick also looks bad in this cause he let him go for a marketing machine in Jr. I think him going to HMS was the biggest mistake of his like, he was never going get better equipment than Johnson and Gordon. Should of gone somewhere else.
I smell sabotage
Ernie Irvan 1999
Jr was very unlucky that’s Forsure
Theresa Earnhardt nose dived A respected racing team DEI Into the ground a lot of good crew members left even Dale sr.s right hand man it is sad that DEI WAS SPLINTERED BECAUSE OF HER
If it's a high profile name, you cannot tell me that there is no internal sabotage look at this and look at Kyle Bush in 2022 unheard number of engine failures in a single season in a lame duck season. Don't know who at JGR but you cannot tell me that Teresa was not behind the engine failures i call bullshit
I remember Rusty Wallace saying something along the lines of "I thought with all of the sweat and equity of Dale Sr. put into this company, "Don't worry, It's all gonna pay off. When you're not blood that's huge. And Dale and Teresa aren't blood".. but in retrospect, 15 years later (damn, I feel so old) I think he did the right thing by moving to Hendrick... buy the best part is... Dale Jr got the last laugh, by winning 3 Xfinity Championships in 4 years... with JR Motorsports....
I think 2016 was his worst season
Before the concussion he was good that year (he had like 4 runner-up finishes)
How though?
He got injured in a crash
I'd argue 2009
This isn't about his worse season, it's about his most interesting bad season
Dalejr was not that good what's his cup win15 give or take 😂
Dale jr by far most overrated driver when he went to hms in history he never truly competed for a championship with hms sure he was good in 2014 and 15 but was knocked out in round of 12. I give him a pass though in 12 and 16 due to concussions. I'm glad jr sucked at hms after costing busch a shot at the title in 07 and jr fans whining and complaining when kb got revenge at richmond in 08 and jr shouldn't be a hall of Famer didn't consistley put up good numbers or win enough races to get in without a championship for the hof I only look at what you did on track
During the 2000s the NASCAR sure rigged and tried to fix a lot of races for this joker, some worked others didn't. It speaks volumes when you can't even win a fixed race!