Such an interesting, wonderful conversation, I’m a grandmother, we followed NASCAR for many years starting back in the 90s, will always be a fan of the sport!
Great Interview with a well respected professional. I spent 45 years working race weekends on the Richmond Clean up crew. I spent over 30 on the headset with race control, and Mr. Hoots was the best. "Clean up 1 get ready" and "the 21'll be the last car by", got us on our way. After years of hearing his voice, "go to work" was all the direction we needed to clean up the scene. Finally, "Clean up Hustle on home, one to go when they get here", got us back to our spot in time for the restart. We got many, "Good Job Clean up", but once there was an incident at the entrance to pit road, "Clean up 1 to the Hauler after the race". I got in line behind Todd Bodine who gave me the side eye. Not a place I ever wanted to be. Following badboy Todd didn't give me a warm fuzzy either. I think he reviewed the tape prior to calling me in. Our discussion was one sided and short, but then again maybe they all were. After Hoots left the booth, It wasn't the same. After a few years, covid, and working with new people, I had never meet before, I retired from the best weekend warrior job a guy could ever have, driving Clean up 1 at Richmond Raceway. I have to thank Linwood Burrows (Track Maint) and Hugh Hawthorne (Alpine Const) for giving me that opportunity of a life time.
This Was By Far One Of The Most Interesting Interviews I've Ever Seen On The DJD. Big Thanks To Everyone Involved In Putting This One Together. I Found It Satisfying To Hear An Opinion Expressed, By A Man Who Knows The Difference, That NASCAR Offers MUCH LESS Of A True Measure Of A Racing Experience These Days Thanks To Countless Silly Rules, Implemented By People Who DO NOT Have The Decades Of Experience Required To 'Know The Difference'. Extra-Nice Job On This One, Dale!!
Used to be a jet dryer operator for Nazareth Speedway for 10 years, this guy was no-nonsense on the radio and had the respect of many. Was excited to see he was on.
David Hoots was the best in the sport, and to be able to work with him was the best memories of my career. His professionalism will never be duplicated.
This man, someone as “inside” NASCAR as it could ever get, has an extraordinary insight into the sport of stock car racing, what makes it compelling, and how changes to NASCAR and within Cup racing over the past 15 years has affected the sport negatively. I completely admire his dedication to his job and doing his best to support his organization through the years, but dang - his issues with the sport align exactly with so many of my own. Hearing his thoughts about stage racing was a revelation. So, I can accept that “evolution” will always happen and that perhaps the days of old can never be replicated, but I can think of a few ways that NASCAR can keep things largely as they are and still make short-track racing more compelling: Change the rules for the short-tracks. At certain tracks, eliminate the stages and change the rules on the cars. Allow teams more latitude with builds, up the HP, keep the cages as strong but let teams sacrifice strength for speed or handling, and return the rule set to one that wise folks like this man and Jr. know helps to create good racing on the short tracks. Why not? Why not let five or whatever races per year be more like the cars and racing that made stock car racing so fascinating to begin with?
After listening to the Officials channel on the scanners for a decade I feel like listening to David is like listening to an old friend. Just wanted to hear him say "Put it out."
It's guys like David Hoots that helped make race day on Sunday 20 years ago really fun and and seem well put together. Great interview and love to hear from guys like him
David Hoots is one of the best to ever sit in Race Control. I've had the honor of working with him for years in different capacities at many different tracks. Absolutely incredible individual.
Thanks Jr for having David on your podcast, I've known him all my life,this man put his heart and soul in his time with NASCAR. It's just not right the way he got let go.
Another outstanding interview. You keep hitting it out of the park with these people who, behind the scenes have kept NASCAR afloat all these years. The "back" stories are extremely entertaining and educational. Keep it up, please.
Wow, what a fantastic interview! I gotta say, I listen to a lot of the Fighter Pilot Podcast, and Mr. Hoots definitely has a fighter-pilot attitude. Not the Hollywood kind, but the real-life kind, absolutely professional, dedicated to their craft, and humble almost to a fault. If he was talking about planes instead of racecars, he'd sound just like any of the various TOPGUN graduates they've interviewed on FPP. You can feel the passion he has for racing as a sport, I think if everyone at NASCAR put in the same kind of attention and effort, they'd have one hell of a product.
That’s a damn good point… if you allow these teams to “fab” their own parts, turn over some of the control to the teams, they’d for sure fix short track racing and make these cars better.
This gentleman has more common sense solutions and observations than anyone I have ever heard speak on the deterioration of what once was the greatest American sport that has its roots in the south and rural tracks all over the country! Thank you sir for your contributions to a sport that I once lived for and brought my family and friends joy ! You are A HOF’mer in my book !
This man should be running the whole sport now. David Hoots basically stated the number of major issues with the sport, and hit the nail EXACTLY on the head.
The announcers constantly only covering the "Chase" vs the actual races is why I have let college & NFL become my first line viewing vs NASCAR. I Could care less who wins the Championship. I am watching a race for the victory.
This right here is exactly how I feel too. NASCAR has become so authoritarian and self-centered that they can no longer conceive that their big, dumb cup just isn’t as all-important as they think it is. Winning the Winston Cup was cool, but winning Daytona, the World 600, or the Southern 500 was as just as big a deal. What used to be an “association” between teams, drivers, track promoters, tire and car manufacturers is now just a greedy, faceless, and controlling corporation and then everyone else. Fans? Whatever - just pay.
A True Legend. I have been blessed spending the time we did in Race Control, not only lessons in racing, but lessons in life. Grits & Black Eyed Gravy for one conversation. Miss seeing and hearing him, and just a shame that he is not in the game with us anymore...
One of my favorite episodes. David was able to go from topic to topic without taking a dozen detours, which a lot of the drivers and crew chiefs seem to struggle with on the podcast.
Respect! I have said for all my adult life that every young person should have to work at UPS or one of it competitors, so they can learn what a hard days work is like. I work construction and have never had a hard days work since I left UPS in 1991.
Every race I went to I listened to David Hoots. I ran Track Saftey at the South Bend Motor Speedway for 7 years and learned alot about directing just by listening to Mr Hoots.
Great point about the stage races! NASCAR, you gotta do some races with stages, and do some with no stages. That would be interesting, mix up which have stages every year
This was a great show!! As a long time NASCAR fan when David was telling his story about how NASCAR has left family values into corporate shows how the sports path is heading and it's not going to be good!! That's actually is what is going on in our country now and that's family run business has left and went corporate!! Corporate is problem!!
As I watch all of your broadcasts, admire you and your family, you have one glaring flaw. Your respect of our sports history and insightful questions, the respect you have for our sports pioneers is dear to my heart. If there were a hall of fame for nascar historians, you would be first. The flaw……………………… well ask Rusty. Miller Lite my friend. Miller Lite😅
7:57 Thats the race where we got Mike Joy saying, while looking at a Burning Brett Bodine Racing Hooters Ford, "The Wings will be extra crispy tonight"
Unexpectedly great interview with David! Very good analysis on why stages and playoffs are not the best ideas. NASCAR does not always make the right decision, and there is room for improvement. But as long as influential voices don't dissent, NASCAR will think everything's ok.
I miss the cars looking like a damn handful to drive, which was apparent even on the TV in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first time I saw drivers holding it nearly wide open on a cookie cutter mile-and-a-half, I knew we'd lost the plot. Less aero; more HP. Less aero; more HP. Please.
Like I always say, "BIAS PLY!" You could see the cars hanging out. Now, it's "slip, Thunk." They are, after all these years, finally getting back to where the radials flex a lot more but, for short tracks, bring back the goofballs!
When Jim France and Ben Kennedy came in and turned Cup cars into IMSA Sports Cars, NASCAR died. Its a slow death, but they have turned their backs on everything that made NASCAR great and popular. If i wanted to watch Sports Car racing, id watch IMSA, I want to see hand made Stock Cars with drivers hanging on for dear life with their tongues hanging out. I vant believe im saying this, i miss the Brian France years
I hope your mistaking your names, big bill started NASCAR, BILL JR, made it great and Brian started the ruination of it, I was hoping jim could turn it around, I was wrong.
@@bradthomas2742 no, when Jim France took over after the Brian debacle we ended with charters, NeztGen sports cars and officials that have never watched a car race and don't seem to understand the sport. Ben is behind a lot of the road course and gimmick races. Now we are going to Mexico while our short track racing is abysmal and dying
I agree 💯% with what your saying IMO, NASCAR turned it's back on its core fan base which was primarily in the southeast, you should NEVER do that, it's ok to expand but tread lightly, I went to talladega in April, I sat in a seat I didn't have a ticket for, that was unheard of 20 or 30 years ago.
NASCAR has added many gimmicks to keep the racing more exciting for new fans. I'm not a fan of most of them but I can accept them, the only one I can't take is the stage racing and I'm glad to hear him talking about that as well. It's mostly designed to keep the whole field basically on the lead lap which is stupid. You should have to be able to run good enough to stay on the lead lap, not be gifted that position.
I agree. If they want to award points on particular laps go ahead. We don’t need a caution to determine the top 10 drivers. Make them earn their points by racing hard for them but don’t throw the flag and let them have a reset. They have completely failed in getting rid of the strategy of making it from the green flag to the checkered flag. They also need to find a way to get rid of the fuel saving strategy that they’re doing on the plate tracks to spend less time on pit roads. I probably would have emptied my cooler on the track if I would have attended the Daytona 500 this year. I have been to it 11 years ago and traveled 1300 miles and paid $400 a ticket. That same ticket is probably $600 or more today. I don’t mind if some people want to lay to the back and save go ahead but when the whole field does and slows the pace down 4 to 5 seconds a lap I kinda come a little unhinged when I think of it from a fans point of view. We pay a lot of money and travel great distances and when they make it a parade instead of a race it’s a joke and a half.
Hey JR that is exactly what you need to do with CARS TOUR !!! As a fan love the racing at most but so of the fan experience sucks. Like Hickory. Orange County, Florence.
Dale, I think there should be a hybrid version of the end of a Stage. If a yellow comes out with 3 or 4 laps to go. Gather the cars back up together during the next lap. End the stage with the next lap. Then do pitstops and the usual procedures and not waste so many laps.
This was awesome! I understand making changes in a company to get rid of a man that put 30 plus years in your company to lay him off a month before the season starts! Steve Phelps/ Steve O'Donnell IMO have poor leadership/ management skills! And it shows
I wish you would have expanded on why you let Lapcevich keep his win but take the cash and points away, days after he won in North Wilkesboro in your CARS tour. For those interested, after passing several inspections and winning the race, Lapcevich was DQ'd days later for using a Ford 9" rear end as opposed to a quick change.
I agree, it is not as fun once the playoffs begin as the commentators focus only on those inside the playoffs. I want to see the whole race, not just the top five cars, and I sure don't want the ticker shortened to display the playoff points in real time. It gets annoying to hear about only a handful of teams.
Im sorry but that move was non talent bulls**t. grinding the fkn wall, looking like a first time racing gamer racing against ai. and still today, as KB said , "knows nothing about clean."
Was wondering if Nascar would look at putting in a smaller gas tank in the short track package like Nascar did the super speedway package in the 1990's & 2000's.
Since the new car doesn’t race on short tracks well why don’t they race higher HP Busch cars on the short tracks? I also liked his thought on backing off on the restrictions on modifying the spec car and let the teams “tweak” them some. Another solid show. I think the lay-off after 30 + years is highly suspect. Mr Hoots deserved an explanation. Is John Darby still around? I loved when they’d interview that chain smoking, hard living, plain spoken character.
Greetings from Rockford, Illinois (s is silent 😁) we have lost our local track Rockford Speedway 😭😭😭 (it's where Chad Knaus ran wild 🤭🤭🤭)they are tearing up the track now, they are letting fans come and get a few pieces. Wondering if some is still available if y'all would like a lil piece of our history? I
Great video…. Love the history…. But , let’s not forget that Winston used NASCAR to keep their name in front of the fans because they could no longer advertise on television..
The Rudd incident happened on the second to last turn of the second to last lap. He received the white as normal and was not shown the black flag until the checkered came out. I suppose it's possible they posted him via radio in the seconds between the incident and the white flag, but there is no way in hell that "Rudd could have won the race" by pitting. If there was indeed a conversation between three people, they would have had at most 5 seconds to discuss, agree, post, communicate the penalty to the team and then have the team contact the driver before Rudd passed the pit road entrance. While I am biased, and I don't think the call was necessarily incorrect, I would call it one of the softer black flag contact-related incidents. The "rattle his cage" incident was 10x more egregious, and from a driver with a broader tradition of that level of aggression. Rudd's biggest penalty that day was not having a name like Earnhardt, Elliott, or Allison.
Amen to the focus on the playoffs absolutely ruining the Bristol race. I tweeted to the whole gang and the network expressing my dismay (expletives deleted) at seeing only the meaningless cutline graphic and the top five. I had no idea where my guy was most of the time.
I agree about the true 1.5 mile oval. To me NASCAR and track owners/builders totally messed up when they started making those copy cat 1.5 mile D ovals. Its basically same track, same race, different city. B O R I N G!!!!!!!
I remember going to atlanta and dega back in the day, the Winston girls would be walking around the outside camp grounds handing out free packs of cigarettes, my how times have changed.
I went back and watched the end of that sonoma race. Rudd was not given the black flag until the checkered came out. I don't know what he's talking about here.
I have been watching racing since around 1955 at the old Myrtle Beach track. Dink Windinhouse was the first to wreck on the New Rambia track, the very first night and on the track all by himself. He was trying to find out how far back he could pitch the car going into turn 3. Well there was a soft spot in the track and 13 flip/rolls later he came to a stop in the middle of turns 3 and 4. I more or less stopped watching NASCAR racing because to me they have totally screwed up the racing to me. When they started stage racing I totally quit watching. I turn the TV on just to see how many people "ARE NOT IN THE GRAND STAND". NASCAR has done this to themselves. When they left the people that were their back bone in support that was their first mistake and then leaving the short tracks. All the night racing has not helped either, who wants to stay up half the night and have to work the next morning. Personally I hate road course races but two a year is enough. That bullshit racing they have been trying in Charlotte and Daytona ain't helping either. Some of the best racing I have ever watched was at the Seaconch race track in Mass. on Sunday afternoons. If it has an engine I watch it, I DO NOT do stick and ball at all.
Also I like What Dale Sr said along time ago, " tie kerosene rags around your ankles so they won't bite your candy ass", he's rolling over in his grave today listening to these " wheel holders" bitching about how the races are to long,hell today they get two time out's a race PLUSE cautions, just one of the reasons I don't watch it anymore, and I was die hard from the mid 70's up until the VANILLA drivers showed up, there's only one out there now and he's getting ready to hang it up.
Great question toDavid trying to getto the essence of his decsiopn making in the moment of a Race violation.....he couldnt answer, but i think its a good question for a psychologist,,,,,,can you getone on??
Tell em to stop Jimmy Jackin around and get lined up! Lololol I miss hoots, we need a guy like him running the sport or the races he wasn’t perfect but was fair and a hammer when he needed to be
I agree with him this year stage racing is for the birds and they need to go back like it was if they allowed down or whatever whatever it is that's what you need to go back to in the heck when it's your stage
I'm no expert but there needs to be big changes in how and who broadcasts NASCAR. The coverage if one of the most exciting sports there is so bad there isn't any g rated words that explain how terrible it is. I'm an Aussie and don't mind the Australian voice but he's not the sharpest tool in the shed and fucking up the US broadcast of the Olympics didn't stop him being hired god help us all 😂
diffie used to be a good broadcaster. But at some point he started putting himself above the race. He needs to relearn " report what you see, dont attempt to create faux excitement with raised voice bulls**t."
Harry Jefferson Herschel McGriff those guys are bad ass with no funding back then Bill Brock Senior works with Jeffersons. They built a falcon that really kicked ass just ask around about that. Oh man so many race tracks have gone down Yakima just we lost it in the northwest what the hell, no good promoters
Such an interesting, wonderful conversation, I’m a grandmother, we followed NASCAR for many years starting back in the 90s, will always be a fan of the sport!
Great Interview with a well respected professional. I spent 45 years working race weekends on the Richmond Clean up crew. I spent over 30 on the headset with race control, and Mr. Hoots was the best. "Clean up 1 get ready" and "the 21'll be the last car by", got us on our way. After years of hearing his voice, "go to work" was all the direction we needed to clean up the scene. Finally, "Clean up Hustle on home, one to go when they get here", got us back to our spot in time for the restart. We got many, "Good Job Clean up", but once there was an incident at the entrance to pit road, "Clean up 1 to the Hauler after the race". I got in line behind Todd Bodine who gave me the side eye. Not a place I ever wanted to be. Following badboy Todd didn't give me a warm fuzzy either. I think he reviewed the tape prior to calling me in. Our discussion was one sided and short, but then again maybe they all were. After Hoots left the booth, It wasn't the same. After a few years, covid, and working with new people, I had never meet before, I retired from the best weekend warrior job a guy could ever have, driving Clean up 1 at Richmond Raceway. I have to thank Linwood Burrows (Track Maint) and Hugh Hawthorne (Alpine Const) for giving me that opportunity of a life time.
This Was By Far One Of The Most Interesting Interviews I've Ever Seen On The DJD. Big Thanks To Everyone Involved In Putting This One Together. I Found It Satisfying To Hear An Opinion Expressed, By A Man Who Knows The Difference, That NASCAR Offers MUCH LESS Of A True Measure Of A Racing Experience These Days Thanks To Countless Silly Rules, Implemented By People Who DO NOT Have The Decades Of Experience Required To 'Know The Difference'. Extra-Nice Job On This One, Dale!!
Used to be a jet dryer operator for Nazareth Speedway for 10 years, this guy was no-nonsense on the radio and had the respect of many. Was excited to see he was on.
David Hoots was the best in the sport, and to be able to work with him was the best memories of my career. His professionalism will never be duplicated.
This man, someone as “inside” NASCAR as it could ever get, has an extraordinary insight into the sport of stock car racing, what makes it compelling, and how changes to NASCAR and within Cup racing over the past 15 years has affected the sport negatively. I completely admire his dedication to his job and doing his best to support his organization through the years, but dang - his issues with the sport align exactly with so many of my own. Hearing his thoughts about stage racing was a revelation.
So, I can accept that “evolution” will always happen and that perhaps the days of old can never be replicated, but I can think of a few ways that NASCAR can keep things largely as they are and still make short-track racing more compelling: Change the rules for the short-tracks. At certain tracks, eliminate the stages and change the rules on the cars. Allow teams more latitude with builds, up the HP, keep the cages as strong but let teams sacrifice strength for speed or handling, and return the rule set to one that wise folks like this man and Jr. know helps to create good racing on the short tracks.
Why not? Why not let five or whatever races per year be more like the cars and racing that made stock car racing so fascinating to begin with?
After listening to the Officials channel on the scanners for a decade I feel like listening to David is like listening to an old friend. Just wanted to hear him say "Put it out."
It's guys like David Hoots that helped make race day on Sunday 20 years ago really fun and and seem well put together. Great interview and love to hear from guys like him
David Hoots is one of the best to ever sit in Race Control. I've had the honor of working with him for years in different capacities at many different tracks. Absolutely incredible individual.
Thanks Jr for having David on your podcast, I've known him all my life,this man put his heart and soul in his time with NASCAR. It's just not right the way he got let go.
"Quit the jimmy jackin" as David used to say while getting driver's lined-up after a caution.. Great episode, Jr..🏁🏁
Great man. Sure need more like him today
Another outstanding interview. You keep hitting it out of the park with these people who, behind the scenes have kept NASCAR afloat all these years. The "back" stories are extremely entertaining and educational. Keep it up, please.
Wow, what a fantastic interview!
I gotta say, I listen to a lot of the Fighter Pilot Podcast, and Mr. Hoots definitely has a fighter-pilot attitude. Not the Hollywood kind, but the real-life kind, absolutely professional, dedicated to their craft, and humble almost to a fault. If he was talking about planes instead of racecars, he'd sound just like any of the various TOPGUN graduates they've interviewed on FPP. You can feel the passion he has for racing as a sport, I think if everyone at NASCAR put in the same kind of attention and effort, they'd have one hell of a product.
One of the best interviews, great insight. Nascar would do well to pick his brain or have him as a consultant.
I would love an interview with Bobby Allison. I met him once in Norfolk, VA. What a down to Earth guy!
Unfortunately I don't think bobby is in the greatest of health.
Sadly, Bobby passed away 11/9/24. He was acknowledged for his 1971 Bowman Gray win before he passed.
That’s a damn good point… if you allow these teams to “fab” their own parts, turn over some of the control to the teams, they’d for sure fix short track racing and make these cars better.
This gentleman has more common sense solutions and observations than anyone I have ever heard speak on the deterioration of what once was the greatest American sport that has its roots in the south and rural tracks all over the country! Thank you sir for your contributions to a sport that I once lived for and brought my family and friends joy ! You are A HOF’mer in my book !
Honor to be there! Thank you Dale.
Thank you Mr hoots
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Racing sure has changed for the worse I just don’t watch like I use to ,,, they need people like you back in charge you are missed
@AJSilva-rj7xk it's not changing for the worse, it's just different.
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Ya, he is an honorable guy.
This man should be running the whole sport now. David Hoots basically stated the number of major issues with the sport, and hit the nail EXACTLY on the head.
Once again ......good stuff......scenes from behind the curtain......THANK YOU!
The announcers constantly only covering the "Chase" vs the actual races is why I have let college & NFL become my first line viewing vs NASCAR. I Could care less who wins the Championship. I am watching a race for the victory.
This right here is exactly how I feel too. NASCAR has become so authoritarian and self-centered that they can no longer conceive that their big, dumb cup just isn’t as all-important as they think it is. Winning the Winston Cup was cool, but winning Daytona, the World 600, or the Southern 500 was as just as big a deal. What used to be an “association” between teams, drivers, track promoters, tire and car manufacturers is now just a greedy, faceless, and controlling corporation and then everyone else. Fans? Whatever - just pay.
And right there is your answer to "why does NASCAR have such a different vibe" . They tossed out all the experience and brought in young MBA types.
Definitely one of the best episodes to date yet. Thank you for the capsule you are putting together for years to come!!
Spot on with his opinions on stage racing.
A True Legend. I have been blessed spending the time we did in Race Control, not only lessons in racing, but lessons in life. Grits & Black Eyed Gravy for one conversation. Miss seeing and hearing him, and just a shame that he is not in the game with us anymore...
David is a Great guy who did his best to break me of short pitting. He never did but was a very important part of NASCAR.
One of my favorite episodes. David was able to go from topic to topic without taking a dozen detours, which a lot of the drivers and crew chiefs seem to struggle with on the podcast.
“It’s sitting right there.” 😂😂😂😂😂
PUT IT OUT!
That lives in my brain
Respect! I have said for all my adult life that every young person should have to work at UPS or one of it competitors, so they can learn what a hard days work is like. I work construction and have never had a hard days work since I left UPS in 1991.
David Hoots is one hell of a guy...we went to church together...
Every race I went to I listened to David Hoots. I ran Track Saftey at the South Bend Motor Speedway for 7 years and learned alot about directing just by listening to Mr Hoots.
Great show, Junior!! Loved hearing David's POV. I got to meet him in one of my Talladega trips one year.
Great Interview with David Hoots
Another excellent history lesson on what made Nascar something I loved. Thank you Junior & David!
Sorry it's changing and not for the better IMO.
Great interview! Love hearing David Hoots' experiences and perspectives. Nascar needs to hire him back as a consultant to support series development.
Loved and miss Hoots on the scanner!! Great to hear his story.
You're absolute correct about Atlanta, it should have been left an oval!
Great point about the stage races!
NASCAR, you gotta do some races with stages, and do some with no stages.
That would be interesting, mix up which have stages every year
I appreciate focusing on a couple questions but these guys have so much to tell and I feel like they get cut off a little early.
Man I love the guests you've been having lately
This guy knows the ruuues. He helped write ruuues.
This was a great show!! As a long time NASCAR fan when David was telling his story about how NASCAR has left family values into corporate shows how the sports path is heading and it's not going to be good!! That's actually is what is going on in our country now and that's family run business has left and went corporate!! Corporate is problem!!
As I watch all of your broadcasts, admire you and your family, you have one glaring flaw. Your respect of our sports history and insightful questions, the respect you have for our sports pioneers is dear to my heart. If there were a hall of fame for nascar historians, you would be first. The flaw……………………… well ask Rusty. Miller Lite my friend. Miller Lite😅
Give the man some hoots! David Hoots is in the building.
7:57
Thats the race where we got Mike Joy saying, while looking at a Burning Brett Bodine Racing Hooters Ford, "The Wings will be extra crispy tonight"
Good get, yall. Thanks Mr. Hoots
Unexpectedly great interview with David! Very good analysis on why stages and playoffs are not the best ideas. NASCAR does not always make the right decision, and there is room for improvement. But as long as influential voices don't dissent, NASCAR will think everything's ok.
Great interview Dale!
I very rarely watch a complete show. I very rarely make a comment. But I got to tell you I sure enjoyed this one. Thank you very much
David is a very awesome guest.
I miss the cars looking like a damn handful to drive, which was apparent even on the TV in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first time I saw drivers holding it nearly wide open on a cookie cutter mile-and-a-half, I knew we'd lost the plot. Less aero; more HP. Less aero; more HP. Please.
I agree. I miss when the commentators used to say: "If the car is confortable to drive, it's not fast."
Like I always say, "BIAS PLY!" You could see the cars hanging out. Now, it's "slip, Thunk."
They are, after all these years, finally getting back to where the radials flex a lot more but, for short tracks, bring back the goofballs!
Very good show
NASCAR misses people like Mr.Hoots
Hello Dale! I think it's time Nascar goes back to, "one checkered flag racing" what do you think?
From 39.00 to 40 30. PREACH IT MY FRIEND, I DAMN SURE MISS THE " RUN WHAT YOU BRUNG" DAYS.
Spot on with stage racing.
Love all the interviews these past few episodes. While yall are on the old school kick, I would love to see Mike Beam on the show.
When Jim France and Ben Kennedy came in and turned Cup cars into IMSA Sports Cars, NASCAR died. Its a slow death, but they have turned their backs on everything that made NASCAR great and popular. If i wanted to watch Sports Car racing, id watch IMSA, I want to see hand made Stock Cars with drivers hanging on for dear life with their tongues hanging out. I vant believe im saying this, i miss the Brian France years
I hope your mistaking your names, big bill started NASCAR, BILL JR, made it great and Brian started the ruination of it, I was hoping jim could turn it around, I was wrong.
@@bradthomas2742 no, when Jim France took over after the Brian debacle we ended with charters, NeztGen sports cars and officials that have never watched a car race and don't seem to understand the sport. Ben is behind a lot of the road course and gimmick races. Now we are going to Mexico while our short track racing is abysmal and dying
I agree 💯% with what your saying IMO, NASCAR turned it's back on its core fan base which was primarily in the southeast, you should NEVER do that, it's ok to expand but tread lightly, I went to talladega in April, I sat in a seat I didn't have a ticket for, that was unheard of 20 or 30 years ago.
NASCAR has added many gimmicks to keep the racing more exciting for new fans. I'm not a fan of most of them but I can accept them, the only one I can't take is the stage racing and I'm glad to hear him talking about that as well. It's mostly designed to keep the whole field basically on the lead lap which is stupid. You should have to be able to run good enough to stay on the lead lap, not be gifted that position.
I agree. If they want to award points on particular laps go ahead. We don’t need a caution to determine the top 10 drivers. Make them earn their points by racing hard for them but don’t throw the flag and let them have a reset. They have completely failed in getting rid of the strategy of making it from the green flag to the checkered flag. They also need to find a way to get rid of the fuel saving strategy that they’re doing on the plate tracks to spend less time on pit roads. I probably would have emptied my cooler on the track if I would have attended the Daytona 500 this year. I have been to it 11 years ago and traveled 1300 miles and paid $400 a ticket. That same ticket is probably $600 or more today. I don’t mind if some people want to lay to the back and save go ahead but when the whole field does and slows the pace down 4 to 5 seconds a lap I kinda come a little unhinged when I think of it from a fans point of view. We pay a lot of money and travel great distances and when they make it a parade instead of a race it’s a joke and a half.
STAGE RACING HAS MADE THE RACING A LOT WORSE. I STOPPED WATCHING FULL RACES WHEN THEY STARTED THAT BS
AND CHAMPIONSHIPS MEAN NOTHING RIGHT NOW.
Hey JR that is exactly what you need to do with CARS TOUR !!! As a fan love the racing at most but so of the fan experience sucks. Like Hickory. Orange County, Florence.
Interesting. Thank you.
PUT IT OUTTTTT. I miss this guy.
Dale, I think there should be a hybrid version of the end of a Stage. If a yellow comes out with 3 or 4 laps to go.
Gather the cars back up together during the next lap. End the stage with the next lap.
Then do pitstops and the usual procedures and not waste so many laps.
This was awesome! I understand making changes in a company to get rid of a man that put 30 plus years in your company to lay him off a month before the season starts! Steve Phelps/ Steve O'Donnell IMO have poor leadership/ management skills! And it shows
I wish you would have expanded on why you let Lapcevich keep his win but take the cash and points away, days after he won in North Wilkesboro in your CARS tour. For those interested, after passing several inspections and winning the race, Lapcevich was DQ'd days later for using a Ford 9" rear end as opposed to a quick change.
I agree, it is not as fun once the playoffs begin as the commentators focus only on those inside the playoffs. I want to see the whole race, not just the top five cars, and I sure don't want the ticker shortened to display the playoff points in real time. It gets annoying to hear about only a handful of teams.
I would love to see all the car setup knowledge at Hendricks and Gibbs leave and build up other struggling teams. Level the field across the board.
Ross Chastain made Short Track racing pretty amazing at Martinsville a couple years ago BUT NASCAR out lawed it!!!
Im sorry but that move was non talent bulls**t. grinding the fkn wall, looking like a first time racing gamer racing against ai. and still today, as KB said , "knows nothing about clean."
I vote .. to put this gentleman back in charge.
Dale forgetting homestead existed at the end was pretty funny
It does seem like nascar is adrift without a rudder, the past is gone but I don't see a clear path of the future.
Was wondering if Nascar would look at putting in a smaller gas tank in the short track package like Nascar did the super speedway package in the 1990's & 2000's.
When I first looked at this gentleman, I honestly thought it was Phil Donahue. 😂
I was at bristol and i can verify the race was terrible from the stands.
i was there friday...and I concur.
Since the new car doesn’t race on short tracks well why don’t they race higher HP Busch cars on the short tracks? I also liked his thought on backing off on the restrictions on modifying the spec car and let the teams “tweak” them some. Another solid show. I think the lay-off after 30 + years is highly suspect. Mr Hoots deserved an explanation. Is John Darby still around? I loved when they’d interview that chain smoking, hard living, plain spoken character.
Greetings from Rockford, Illinois (s is silent 😁) we have lost our local track Rockford Speedway 😭😭😭 (it's where Chad Knaus ran wild 🤭🤭🤭)they are tearing up the track now, they are letting fans come and get a few pieces. Wondering if some is still available if y'all would like a lil piece of our history?
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Great video…. Love the history…. But , let’s not forget that Winston used NASCAR to keep their name in front of the fans because they could no longer advertise on television..
The Rudd incident happened on the second to last turn of the second to last lap. He received the white as normal and was not shown the black flag until the checkered came out. I suppose it's possible they posted him via radio in the seconds between the incident and the white flag, but there is no way in hell that "Rudd could have won the race" by pitting. If there was indeed a conversation between three people, they would have had at most 5 seconds to discuss, agree, post, communicate the penalty to the team and then have the team contact the driver before Rudd passed the pit road entrance.
While I am biased, and I don't think the call was necessarily incorrect, I would call it one of the softer black flag contact-related incidents. The "rattle his cage" incident was 10x more egregious, and from a driver with a broader tradition of that level of aggression. Rudd's biggest penalty that day was not having a name like Earnhardt, Elliott, or Allison.
Totally agree.
I can see Sprint Cup logo, but now it's T-Mobile
David Hoots was FAR better than the current jokes in the race control tower.
Amen to the focus on the playoffs absolutely ruining the Bristol race. I tweeted to the whole gang and the network expressing my dismay (expletives deleted) at seeing only the meaningless cutline graphic and the top five. I had no idea where my guy was most of the time.
Good ole common sense coming from that man.
He didn't ask him about the phantom cautions era...
“Put it out turn 4, I have a spectator climbing the fence.”
Yeah what I was trying to say it didn't let me put it off the older generation is better in this generation now in NASCAR
I agree about the true 1.5 mile oval. To me NASCAR and track owners/builders totally messed up when they started making those copy cat 1.5 mile D ovals. Its basically same track, same race, different city. B O R I N G!!!!!!!
Todays nascar in a nut shell more complicated than it needs to be.
Guys like this need to be running Nascar, not watching or being dismissed.
I remember going to atlanta and dega back in the day, the Winston girls would be walking around the outside camp grounds handing out free packs of cigarettes, my how times have changed.
I went back and watched the end of that sonoma race. Rudd was not given the black flag until the checkered came out. I don't know what he's talking about here.
I have been watching racing since around 1955 at the old Myrtle Beach track. Dink Windinhouse was the first to wreck on the New Rambia track, the very first night and on the track all by himself. He was trying to find out how far back he could pitch the car going into turn 3. Well there was a soft spot in the track and 13 flip/rolls later he came to a stop in the middle of turns 3 and 4. I more or less stopped watching NASCAR racing because to me they have totally screwed up the racing to me. When they started stage racing I totally quit watching. I turn the TV on just to see how many people "ARE NOT IN THE GRAND STAND". NASCAR has done this to themselves. When they left the people that were their back bone in support that was their first mistake and then leaving the short tracks. All the night racing has not helped either, who wants to stay up half the night and have to work the next morning. Personally I hate road course races but two a year is enough. That bullshit racing they have been trying in Charlotte and Daytona ain't helping either. Some of the best racing I have ever watched was at the Seaconch race track in Mass. on Sunday afternoons. If it has an engine I watch it, I DO NOT do stick and ball at all.
Is Jr in the lucky dog spot?
Then there's debris
David hoots is my cousins best friends dad he's a cool guy always got us tickets
Also I like What Dale Sr said along time ago, " tie kerosene rags around your ankles so they won't bite your candy ass", he's rolling over in his grave today listening to these " wheel holders" bitching about how the races are to long,hell today they get two time out's a race PLUSE cautions, just one of the reasons I don't watch it anymore, and I was die hard from the mid 70's up until the VANILLA drivers showed up, there's only one out there now and he's getting ready to hang it up.
Great question toDavid trying to getto the essence of his decsiopn making in the moment of a Race violation.....he couldnt answer, but i think its a good question for a psychologist,,,,,,can you getone on??
Tell em to stop Jimmy Jackin around and get lined up! Lololol I miss hoots, we need a guy like him running the sport or the races he wasn’t perfect but was fair and a hammer when he needed to be
I agree with him this year stage racing is for the birds and they need to go back like it was if they allowed down or whatever whatever it is that's what you need to go back to in the heck when it's your stage
I'm no expert but there needs to be big changes in how and who broadcasts NASCAR. The coverage if one of the most exciting sports there is so bad there isn't any g rated words that explain how terrible it is. I'm an Aussie and don't mind the Australian voice but he's not the sharpest tool in the shed and fucking up the US broadcast of the Olympics didn't stop him being hired god help us all 😂
diffie used to be a good broadcaster. But at some point he started putting himself above the race. He needs to relearn " report what you see, dont attempt to create faux excitement with raised voice bulls**t."
Harry Jefferson Herschel McGriff those guys are bad ass with no funding back then Bill Brock Senior works with Jeffersons. They built a falcon that really kicked ass just ask around about that. Oh man so many race tracks have gone down Yakima just we lost it in the northwest what the hell, no good promoters