Dale Jr. Download: Rick Hendrick - "I'm Not Gonna Let Him Fail"

We changed team leaders, we changed people, we moved things around, but this was a big change moving from one shop to another with a completely new group of people and I thought yeah, this has to work or this will be the end. , but he ended up finding out how close he was in his assumptions to the situation, he was the one who worked out the options, no, we, just, I think you know we're all in the people business and I don't care what kind of business you're in , it has to be it has a mesh that has to fit and you have to get the right combination and I could see it and feel that it wasn't right and I felt Stevie could do it and I was told a couple of times that that store was never as good as store 48 in 24 48, so I knew I had to get it into his head that I was going to be in that store with that team and Stevie were already there and everything worked out, yeah and no one, I never, I never thought about this, this is the end, I thought about it, I'm not going to let it

fail

, you know?

I'm going to keep changing until we get it right. Is it because there was a trust issue? Man, he'd practically lost his trust as a racing driver, right? I mean, he was rebuilding it at the time. You know, you used to feel like he was the best driver on the track, when you don't feel that way, you lost a lead, you lost several tenths, right, yeah, well, we didn't give him what he needed and he just once again, the combination wasn't there. there, but because we started with a bang, it would go down, yeah, tonal. I love everything we did.

I remember we went to Las Vegas for testing and we were fast and all the cars were fast, all of us were, but it was Tony Jr. and me. they're really good and Jeff came up and said Dane, it's like you're awesome and I thought this is amazing, this is working and then we went to Daytona and we won the shootout, we won the qualifying race and you know, we had a great season at all times. I mean, we weren't winning races, but we were running first and second, the points we were putting up in points, I mean, Kyle Busch was first a high school together and then he went to Richmond, yeah, but then we went on and won. at Michigan and we had a pretty solid year, we didn't finish and in the playoffs very well or whatever, but it started very well, yeah, it got derailed, yeah, why did it get derailed that Tony junior and I were getting? pretty tough on each other, especially on the radio, and I think that's what it was like for me and Tony to cheer each other up, that was a normal thing, we did it all the time in the bird days, but when Rick and them heard it, they said That this is bad, I want.

I want to, I want to write, I don't think I know who won the race, but we think one of my cars won the race and here comes the media and I thought they wanted to talk about the race that we just want to talk about. rescue Tony Junior talking about it on the radio, yeah, and I don't remember it all, but it was that there was a lot of focus on you and everyone was waiting, you know a lot, yeah, I said, and they'll know when there are six races in the first. oh yeah, and everyone was listening to everything they were saying, yeah, so there's a lot of pressure.

I know I'm putting pressure on all of us, for sure.