Dale Jr. Download: Blaney Family Racing History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. invites father-son duo Dave and Ryan Blaney to the table to learn more about the Blaney racing legacy and hear about Ryan’s Cup Series victory on Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Dave’s father Lou Blaney was the first Blaney to climb behind the wheel of a race car. Hear how his interest in racing started and how it blazed a trail for his family.
Did you know a Blaney was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers? Hear the story of how Dave’s brother Dale turned away from a professional basketball career to race.
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The Blaneys are more legendary than folks outside of northeast Ohio and western PA will ever know, great video!
Dave Blaney . One of the nicest drivers ever on the Nascar roster.
Ryan is definitely gonna be a champion one day
As a Chase Elliott fan...I'm calling it right now that if not this year then next year Blaney wins the cup!!!
@@Kilz78 I agree 👍
He's gotta step his game up though - Win more races, Avoid bad luck which seems to be a common thing with him. etc
Watched Dave ,Dale, Blakey and the Kinser family while they were. In their prime ,world of outlaws,,,,Elma Wa ,, one night Dave set track record, 3/10 mile clay. 12.8 sec. Unreal sticky 410 sprints. Mark kinser was also super fast. Swindell too many great visits there😀😀😀
This aged well.
I'm English, I have never been to your country, and I've been following Nascar and US racing for over 30 years, and I could listen to Jnr and his guest talking about Nascar all day! I just love it.
A brit and his bike in Poland you should try visiting here sometime i live in north Carolina 25 minutes from charlotte motor speedway and there's a ton of dirt tracks around me
It's always cool hearing from folks across the Atlantic who enjoy NASCAR and American motor sports!
Always glad to hear someone from another country enjoys our racing history. I love racing history from all over the world but there's just something unique and enthralling about NASCAR and American stock car history in particular that just keeps me engaged.
@@wallystewart1979 I think if i came to North Carolina, they would have to deport me from the country, because i know i wouldnt want to ever leave! I love the culture of small town dirt or paved oval racing! I ve been watching Hunt the Front since they started their youtube channel!! We have a great history of tracks and teams and car manufactures here in Europe, mercedes ferrari, Porsche etc etc, and great road racing like F1 and Le mans etc which dates back to the 1930s! But you guys in the states have something 100% diferent and unique, you guys are so lucky!
@@JSchaffer214 Yep you are right, of course we have an incredible racing scene and history in europe, with all different nationalities and manufactures,,and fantastic tracks etc etc goig back to the 1930s!! And you guys got small town oval racing, and Indycar, or CART when i started watching back in the 80s, iIMSA and of course NASCAR, my dream is Talledega, charlotte, Bristol night race (I am a born and bred Bristol guy) But the original Bristol in the UK, in fact i wanna see all the Nascar tracks, but the super speedways are the best!
Dave sounds like a great guy , he’s more humble than I expected and very disciplined
Yupp I remember watching him in cup. He was always low key and usually stayed out of trouble on and off the track. I think he never really got put in good equipment but would have been a great driver I'm sure.
I wished he would have stayed in his Sprint car World of Outlaws
Wow, you can really hear the emotion in Dave's voice when he talks about his dad.
Seeing Dave almost lose it while talking about his father was really heartwarming.
Instablaster...
I am 59 years old and can remember my parents and I going to Sharon Speedway in Hartford Ohio to watch the best modified and sprint car driver I have ever seen. Mr.Blaney was one of the nicest guys you would ever have had the opportunity to talk to. He was truly a one of a kind man. My wife and I go to the Lou Blaney memorial race every year.
I am 57. We also went to Sharon since I was a kid. The whole Blaney family is a class act! I now live in south central PA and don’t get back anymore!
I race at sharon and met Dave, great man!
You can tell Ryan's racing style emulates his dad, very clean racers. Watched Lou race at Sharon for years. Always enjoyed watching him run third or fourth and just wait for the high groove to come to him and then it was lights out. He'd win going away.
@@bryanbaconsr3345 That's right he would follow the car in front of him and see where they were running, next time around he would take them. Definitely one of the best and cleanest drivers ever!
I'm 43. Been going to Sharon since '82. Some of my fondest memories are at that place.
Dave and Dale are magic in 410 wing cars
Blaney family sounds like some good people to be associated with. Much respect
I was so glad to see Ryan win Atlanta & he says "This is payback for 2001 Atlanta race" since his dad should have probably won that race but had a loose wheel destroy his car
Really awesome dave is a drivers driver journeyman clawed for it all. And to see his son become a champ has to be a absolute american dream come true. The only thing better than winning is seeing your kids win
Dave Blaney is FLAT OUT a f’ing wheelman !
Hey, there are a couple of real people left in the world. Thank you Blaneys.!!!!!!!!
I really like the way these conversations with Dale and his guests play out ,very genuine, my dad used to race Islip speedway Long Island and i have been following racing for a long time and I'm surprised that nobody came up with a show or platform like this before so you can really get to know the people that built and raced in NASCAR. I think Dale is the perfect person to do the interviews because he doesn't talk over his guests and is genuinely interested in what he's doing and keeping the history of NASCAR alive .
Well I guess I'm biased too ... Went to High School with Dave n Dale .... Happy for their success but LOU was just the best there ever was . We were so spoiled by LOU winning for so long it seems like he should've just went on forever. I remember Dave's first night in a race car .... That's a lotta pressure when LOU is your Dad
How am i just watching this?! Lol. Tons of memories at Sharon. This Mecca boy loves you both!!
Great Interview with Dave Blaney. I am a big fan of the Blaneys. I remember playing Dave and Dale basketball back in the day
Unfortunately, I was at the race where Bob Blaney was seriously injured in a dirt track stock car; Chevelle, as I recall. It was in Mansfield, OH; the season-ending Johnny Appleseed Race and his throttle stuck wide open on the last lap (49th?) going into turn 1. There was no fence, but a 3' high dirt berm. His car shot up and over the berm and he was launched down a very steep embankment. Seemed like 3 or 4 seconds before the car finally landed. It was terrible!!! They called the race and that was the end of the season. I can't remember the year for sure, but I believe it was either 1971 or 1972. I do not believe that he ever raced in a stock car again. As I recall, he was running in the top 3 or 4 cars at the time of the accident. Very depressing for everyone in attendance. Everyone in Ohio loved the Blaney family. Although I live in WA now, my favorite driver is Ryan Blaney. Always rooted for his dad, as well. I was so hoping that they would call the Daytona 500 the year he was leading and the race was red-flagged!!! He could have won races in better equipment!!!
I like the Blaney family Racer's! I've watched them (Dave mostly) for year's ! I hope to watch them for many more . Go getting Ryan !
I remember Dave in the #93 Amoco Pontiac Grand Prix. Best era in racing.
I grew up watching Lou and as Dave said he was a class act in every way. The first time I met him he initiated the conversation. I was at the track (Sharon Speedway) with a friend of mine that ran a sprit and he told me who I was talking to.I think Ryan has a lot of his traits the way he interacts with his fans. I'll have to listen to the podcast. Very interesting already.
I remember watching Dave race at pittsburgh motor speedway back in the mid 90’s.
Dave Blaney, one very cool race car driver,and winner. Ryan is just like him,so cool.
Blaneys are class acts. They lived 2 miles down the road from me.
Dave Blaney was always a class act! I remember back in the days in the outlaw cars. Always polite and mannered when interviewed. Racing need to get back to that!
Yep same here fan favorite always had a huge line for autographs and spent time with every single fan never left early like Kinser and Swindell did.
Wow blaney's family has a long history of Racing I 💕 it
To hear the story about Rockingham is awesome. When it's hot everywhere it's a different kinda hot back home.
Met dave at Syracuse 98-99 ish when he drove for Goewey.. " gotta watch the inside berm dave.. 😂" met Lou at a now defunct USNA race. Forget the track. Awesome good guys. Always been a fan.
He came so close to winning syracuse... every time he showed he was so fast...but equipment doesn't last long on the mile wheeling like he did
Total class act family. Makes me proud to be an Ohioan!
And both have AWESOME nicknames "The Buckeye Bullet" Dave Blaney & "The Lowrider" Dale Blaney! And their Dad Lou was GREAT in a sprint car and a dirt modified...#10🏆🏁
Dave has always been one of my favorites. It was heartbreaking the night he was so dominant in the 93 cup car at Richmond and lost a wheel on the backstretch. I just knew he was going to get his first win. I've loved nascar all my life and Dave is the only driver I ever met in person.
That was actually Atlanta 2001. The race Harvick ended up winning. He was bad fast in that race.
@@mgnta1 you are correct. It was the cracker barrel 500 that that happened. I was thinking of the Richmond race where he lead a bunch of laps too.
Dave Blaney was very talented. It just feels like he never got with a good team.
i agree, if he drove for like penske or even maybe evernham, he couldve broken out..
I mean Bill Davis Racing wasn’t terrible when he raced for them.
Nor was RCR
He didn't really run stock cars regularly until he was in his late 30's. At that point, over half of his life was spent largely behind the wheel of a dirt car. I think it was just too much of a transition to overcome at that age. He fared much better that some of the other sprint car drivers that have tried to make the leap though, and didn't tear up alot of equipment in the process.
From WV. Dale was an amazing basketball player. You couldn't define him as a position player at WVU he played the entire court. Remember watching Dave drive the #10 Vivarin winged sprint at WV Motorspeedway in Mineral Wells WV. He put on one hell of show.
Great show, big Blaney fan , both of them keep um comming
Dave Blaney always great to see him up in CNY at the Port.
Hello Dale and Mike and David and Ryan great interview I always enjoyed watching David race and now I enjoy watching Ryan race Wishing everyone there well Take Care Guys
I so wished Dave could have won one. Incredible driver
my grandpa 72 still racing going on 52 years now
Wow Dave is so straight up. I love that.
Anybody here remember the epic battles between Lou Blaney and Bob Kraus? I really miss those days.
Still have my Dave Blaney shirt I bought at Rockingham in 2003.
I remember watching Dave drive during the early 90’s, he was always competitive for sure, but I see Ryan as a young guy with potential to dominate.
Lou was one of best drivers in a modified that number 10 was fun to watch at Sharon Speedway and Mercer Raceway Park
First time I ever watched Dave Blaney race was the fall race at Devils Bowl. He about kicked Sammy Swindells butt on the last lap. He was driving the Lone Star Plumbing car for Duece Terrill.
Superb driver
Ray was selling jewelry in Swarovsky in Town Square in Las Vegas, when who walks in with his wife? Dave. Talked about racing a little (Ray raced in go-karting and Skip Barber Formula Ford). Then, their young teenage kids came in and mom and dad Blaney introduced us ... to Ryan and his siblings.
We raced Margay in mid 80s. Had a Black widow too but that Margay was on rails. Still got my old Margay racing suit somewhere. Hard to believe I was that little. lol.
Glad the WVU reference made it into the conversation.
Glad to see the Blaneys have success in racing. Hopefully his son will win a chip one day.
I am a fan of Ryan Blaney.
I pit next to Lou at Sharon racesway back in the late eighties
How this podcast missed using EARHARDT in the name of the show is so unfortunate. Great podcast, it could bring so many newbies to the sport of racing
I love seeing fellow northeast ohioans rocking blaney merch.
I hope that you stick with josh berry,I like what I seen from him so far,he’s run near the front,he’s just had some bad luck,plus he’s running tracks for the first time
Ryan Blaney sounds so much like his dad
Here's an idea for a later show, like in the NASCAR off-season..... "The Dirt Connection In NASCAR"
A conversation with dirt track racers that raced, or are racing in NASCAR. Drivers like Stewart Freisen, Rico Abreu, Steve Kinser, Mario Andretti, Tony Stewart, etc.
I believe Lou drove the red #10 modified the many times I saw him drive. I remember them inverting the field and seeing Lou come all the way from the back on several occasions.
Pike County Speedway 95ish Dave was in the Vivarin car, won the race pulling the front tires off the dirt on back straight. Kinser in the Quaker State was 2nd. If my remember right.
I watch Dave race a few years ago in sprit car up at attica raceway park here in ohio and the car wasn't a top car but he drove that thing thew the field in 30 lap think got 10 ten that night was first time I was at track and saw him race
Wonder where Tom Steele is now? That guy was CRAZY FAST! I always thought he deserved to move up.
He had a bad crash and believe had brain issues like park had after his wreck
Oh wow! Didn’t know that.
How do you ask a question on the ask Jr portion of the Dale Jr. Download?
we raced with lou blaney my dad knew him very well
Dale Jr is quick on the question's. 😂
First kart was a Margay Shark...then we upgraded to a Scorpion Bug lol
How is there no sponsorship on those water bottles?
My first Margay was 1969 👍
I don’t know why I’m a Blaney fan. I need to order the hat. Maybe cuz he drove the 21 car. Thanks
What’s with the way dale says “advance auto parts”?
I Feel so sorry for Ryan he really wishes his grandad was still alive 🤧🤧
I wish you would have asked him about the wreck with Chase Elliott at Daytona road course now that it's been a little while
My dad said he watched dave blaney get the track record at red river valley speedway one day in a sprint car and the next day he lost it
Go JRMS
Hey dale do u think u will get back out at the track ever again I hope all is well with u and your family
No. He's already said the race last year was it.
@@daviclar867 I seriously doubt your opinion sir!
@@cathysheppard9091 ok. LOL
@@daviclar867 care to make a tiny wager?
@@cathysheppard9091 sure! He said after his last race that he was extremely nervous and afraid to do bad or get in a wreck and said he doesn't want to ever have that anxiety again!
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