Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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The Dale Jr. Download · Becoming Earnhardt Vol. 9 - The Dust Settles On 1979 · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

We tried really hard to get Joe to come sit down and talk to us or just be able to really pick his brain a little bit about this series, but it was really difficult to make that work.

But we are so thankful for his career and his effort and battle through the 1979 season.

Terry Labonte, we know, is going to go on and win championships as recent as 1984.

I mean, literally five years removed from this season, Terry's a champion.

Harry Gantt wins a ton of races, obviously becoming a household name.

And also, I think it's a little fascinating to me how much the Rookie of the Year deal mattered.

Yes, of course, we're embellishing it, we're blowing it up, we're making it a big deal in the show, but it really was that big of a deal back then.

The Rookie of the Year battle was something people were so excited about because this really was where there was such a small group of veterans, you know, capable of winning every week, half a dozen, maybe 10 cars at times.

but there were really a half a dozen good winning cars on the racetrack and those rookies were exciting that rookie of the year battle was you know was always compelling we lost a little bit of it uh its identity over the years but every once in a while we get a really good crop of rookies that fires up the excitement in that rookie of the year battle

Obviously, we talk about J.D.

Stacey.

Now, one of the stories that got cut from the show is about J.D.

Stacey.

He owned a car that Neil Bonnet drove in the late 70s.

And they got into a dispute with crew chief Harry Hyde.

And Harry says, we're parking these cars.

I'm not taking them to the racetrack anymore.

J.D.

Stacey would go over to Rod Osterlin in 1978.

Dave Marcus is Rod's driver.

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