Dale Jr. Download: '98 Daytona 500 Tell-All with Larry McReynolds

I took it for granted, come on, you just weren't going to say this was done until I saw it actually coming under that. checkered flag and you know, danny culler, our spotter, when the accident happened there, coming out of turn two on the backstretch, it really wasn't a serious accident, but it was enough to trigger the caution and danny knew the deal and he told me I assured and stayed. off the radio let Danny answer him you know you gotta bring him and of course I can remember Danny you gotta bring him back to the line champ you gotta bring him back to the line and then in the moment it happened, I said.

You have to make sure you maintain the speed of the caution lap. We have to come back here one more time. I didn't want that to be the next thing that happened. We don't maintain the speed of the caution lap and the cars overtake us or something like that. Something strange happens and yeah, until I saw the car actually take that checkered flag, I guess mainly because of what we had been through in '97 and what I knew the three cars had spent 20 years trying to win this. What we didn't I was going to count those chickens until that thing was completely under the checkered flag, yeah, what happened then, everything went blurry? and richard and toasting and going to bill jr's captain jack sweep, he gave us all a cigarette passing by the media car wash on pit road richard and your father me and then the boys took the car and They ripped it apart to inspect it and then you have to put it back together and honestly, I remember all that stuff, but I didn't realize it was pouring rain when they finally loaded that thing onto that little trailer so they could put it in the Daytona. experience the next morning and none of my family was there, everyone was home sick with the flu and I remember walking in the pouring rain from the garage to my coach and it was about a quarter to 11:30 and when I sat down I bent down to take off my shoes and that's when I think it finally hit me.

I was, damn, I just won the Daytona 500 with Dale Earnhardt, I don't think, although I remember everything that happened, but there is another time, Dale and Mike, that I will never forget as long as I live that I was in the lane of the victory. I've told this story a lot, I was in victory lane and things were calming down a little bit, you know, but there's still pictures, pictures after pictures, after pictures and the team was still there and the car was still there, but I remember stepping back to look at your father and Teresa and, honestly, looking at Richard and Judy.

It's also his first time and I was lucky enough to experience it six years earlier. with davey, but it's still just as special, not that I'm sure if you win a third, it's just two special, but watching your dad and Richard especially is almost like watching your kids unwrap their presents at Christmas, that's it What it meant for me to just take that step back and just take it in and watch his smiles and his actions and how much he really is. I'll never forget it as long as I live, so you just watched that video and I'm sure.

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