It is absolutely mind-boggling to think myself a 22-year-old and my entire life I've never seen a race at North Wilkesboro when I was born the track was in its last leg it was dying being forgotten about and for Dale Jr to do all this get the track back restore it bring it back to its former glory it puts the biggest smile on my face because I have been a Nascar fan since I could remember I want to thank everybody who has been a part of this project for bringing history to the modern era. is is something no one will ever forget. you guys are absolutely legendary. Jr i know your father would be so proud of what your doing to help the sport, to help racing as a whole and keep the community so close and loved. this is what history from the past being revived looks like and also what history being made looks like. and it makes me want to cry to be honest man.
Dale you really made memories for alot of people. Sr was smiling down on you bud. Congratulations on 3 place . 10 laps would made a different out come Appreciate you man
Thanks Dale and Markus this track is 1 hour from our home and we will attend. I'm a nascar fan since Cale Yarborough was racing with the Alison's and Petty. We might need some assistance getting to the seats at our age but well worth it. Have fun you lucky drivers and fans of Notth Wilksboro and we'll see you there.
When I first started watching this channel they had the office tv show style interviews and funny office pranks & now to this.. JRM & Dirty Mo Media has grown into a different class of entertainment 👍🏻
The August 31, 2022 wasn't just a race, it was an experience. I grew up a Nascar fan in the 70s-early 80s, then wrenched on LMS, Busch and some Cup . Visited victory lane many times in LMS, track championships and victory lane in Busch. This race was by far the best (racing) experience I ever felt. Every person in attendance had to feel something. The shy little kid(Junior of course) has become such a major contributor to the sport that may never be matched.
If you build it they will come, Jr its good to see you goin back to your roots. Hopefully your able to continue to do it. This was awesome getting to see you after a race on how happy an funny you can be. Just glad to see your able to do what yah love.
I pray many young race fans will have fond memories just like I do since mine go back to the early 60's and their great drivers like Petty, Earnhardts, Fireball, Tiny, Cal, Pearson, Johnson, Allisons, way to many to name.....If my health doesn't get worse hope I get to see another race here. Thank God I'm a country boy from randolph county in the Tarheel state. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
I've said the same sacred names you did many times as I grew upat our local dirt track every Thursday night where Ralph Earnhardt, Jr. Johnson, Cale Yarbrough, Tiny Lund, Fireball Roberts, Lee Petty, Buck Baker and so many others that were literally the class of driver's some of which run moonshine before joining racing and Nascar. It's awesome that FINALLY North Wilkesboro is BACK THANKS TO DALE!!! HIS DAD AND GRANDDAD WOULD BE AND ARE SO PROUD, WATCHING FROM HEAVEN ABOVE 🙏🙏🙏🏁🏆🏁💞🤗💞🙏🙏🙏🙏
It's nice to get a team side perspective for the entire event. Very cool to see how he immersed himself into the field and really just out there having real fun doing what he loves while be really competitive. Awesome. Thanks for taking us all along for the ride!
I’ve been a JR fan since he raced ASA a million years ago and it’s been incredible to watch him transition into one of the most influential men to ever be in NASCAR. What do ya suppose SR would be thinking or doing today had he not lost his life in Daytona ? I’m positive he’s very proud to be JR’s DAD !!!
We just got our racetrack back from the graveyard after 18 years and it’s thriving. Tri City Raceway in West Richland, Wa. This video hit me in the feels real hard. I can tell you, there aren’t any angry fans in stands at the beginning of a grassroots race. So awesome.
Dale Jr. Does more for the fans of Racing than anyone else has done in the last 22 yrs.He is the best ambassador for Racing. Anyone who was a fan of his daddy's or of his will show up to watch him race. Heck I only watch when he gets back into a car. I miss him racing full time. I understand his reasons for retiring from full time .His health and his family. But I sure do miss watching him race. I've been waching him since his start in the Busch year 1. He won 2 championships. Thanks Dale Jr. It will always be a thrill to watch you behind the wheel of a racecar. It is totally awesome that as team owner he got the win and the icing on the cake he finished 3rd.
I am an English guy who has never been to your country let alone a Nascar or late model race! I have had a life of F1 , but my dream of seeing a race night like that in the USA is my childhood dream since watching " The Last American Hero" movie in the 80s. Watching this gave me goose bumps!! I have no words other than I think I was born in the wrong country! What a fantastic film, thank you.
So very thankful to have watched this race, I've been a fan of racing since the 80's and who would have thought my music career would have crossed paths with nascar and the #3 and it was such an honor to be a part of that music video and that song at this historical place❤️I remember thinking way back then in 2010 that the track would get back to racing 😎✌️❤️
Man.. Idk if anyone else geeks out over Jr's aesthetic as much as I do but he looks so god damn badass with those gloves & his custom Stilo helmets. He used to run an oddly shaped helmet back when he first moved to Hendrick & had Adidas gloves, I believe.. Ever since 2013, he switched to AlpineStars fire suit, Stilo helmet & the iconic skeleton gloves. There's just something about that look that turns me into such a freakin' nerd lmao Maybe I'm the only one who feels like this.. Maybe not
What an awesome series of videos! Great work! As always Dirty Mo Media hits one out of the park! Dirty Mo and his brand do more for the sport of racing than any other entity! His whole team is truly passionate about the sport and it shows! The Dale Jr. Download is a must listen/watch if you are a fan of any form of racing! Or even baseball or football! :)
I remember filming Sunday drive with Tim Dugger there many years ago. Such a beautiful place so full of awesome history and I hope to return there soon to see a race! ❤️❤️❤️
My 1st NASCAR race I ever went too, was the Tyson/Holly Farms 400 in the very early 90’s! Myself, and a group of friends from Huntington, Wv (Dixie Thunder Race Shop) came down. Me, Deana Leedy and her crew had a blast. The day I heard Wilkesboro was closing, it brought a tear to my eye. Then the day I heard it was “coming back”, I had those feelings from the 90s again. I didn’t make it for the return date, but I can promise you, I’LL BE BACK as well!
Great great great job! Only wish the rescue act could get some funds to revive my favorite dirt track growing up. Challenger Speedway in Jacksonville Pennsylvania. Saw my first 50 lap late model feature there. It’s what really got me hooked on racing!! Great job again guys!
Dale Earnhardt Jr thank you Think you for what you done getting north wilksboro open again . like to see Rockingham race track open again.jr your fan always Thomas cates..
This is what nascar use to be and drivers use to be. Dale jr has inherited the old styles and thinking which i sure miss. I use live in Daytona.since Nascar changed the races were the cars and all the old veterans are gone, I don't watch it anymore. The spirit of Dale and Dale Jr, Bobby and Donnie, Mark, Cale, it's nothing but kids rich kids raised on rich kids tracks and go carts.
Really appreciate enjoy the hole content of this rival. I hope there will also be good content for the races in October for the dirt racing and for a new future for 2023.
Good to see it back. I can't believe Dale Jr drinks Bud Select 55's, I thought I was the only one. And they are so hard to find in stores. Maybe if he would say he likes em they would be more available.
This has actually re-fired me up to wanting to watch. After Sr. died, I tried to hang on for a few years, but as the gimmicks started, I just lost interest. Return to this kind of racing, you brought an ‘ol timer back.
Found you haven't been Home in a while I remember when Júnior Johnson trying to bring it back and seeing Harry Gant #33 Hope they build some RV parks My family lives around Taylorsville I live in FL
We had my drum set set up in victory lane on top of the building it was hot as f🔥 lol we all look like lobsters for days 😂 we all got sunburned bad lol good times 😎
Had season seats there for a long time, Mr Staley was a good owner, remember one year it was cold and we camp at the number three turn, and he came by and put us in side the number one turn against the fence, we watch Dale daddy crew change motor in the number 3 car at night, and it was snowing, my son was a young boy at time, and Sunday race, a older lady was outside and we ask her to sit in camper with us and watch race,
"Other" sports stadiums have figured this out but the local oval tracks are spotty at best. Put the lights behind the grandstands and have them reflect back to the people paying for the show. Not sure where NW stands in this argument, just felt the urge to vent. It's not a parking lot, its a race track. p.s. Love the "unrestored" vintage vibe.
I prefer old worn out, beat down lookin tracks. Everyone these days wants everything to look brand new & clean. Everyone is so OCD these days & I dont want a track like that. Tracks werent like that in the 80s & 90s but everyone wants everything to "look" pretty when that really doesnt matter to the race.
North Wilkesboro doesn't need NASCAR to come back to survive. With some great promoting they could be stronger than there cup days. Maybe some North South shootouts with modified and one thing there's plenty of in the northeast is late model stock cars. Heck even some street stock touring series would be cool there. Give Cleetus McFarland a burnout pad and he would bring his Crown Vic racing series there.
5/8 mile. Perfect super speedway of a short track. I love that they didn’t repaint the place- I hope they don’t. I hope SRX gets booked in there. It’s way far for me to see a race there in person but there’s too many glitzy tracks with no character
A little padding in the front and back and you could have a 90 minute special to run before the 2023 All Star Race ..... If I remember correctly you need about 69-70 minutes of content for 90 minutes of broadcast TV .... Maybe a 10 minute segment on how the ALL Star Race at North Wilkesboro came to be
Nashville fairgrounds is the old school track i want see so bad back in NASCAR again so many legends cut there teeth there Darrell waltrip sterling marlin bobby Hamilton jeff and david greene etc.
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The entire sport is so damn proud of you Dale Jr. I'm f'ing crying right now. Win or not YOU brought the sport back home. Back to hollow ground. ❤
It is absolutely mind-boggling to think myself a 22-year-old and my entire life I've never seen a race at North Wilkesboro when I was born the track was in its last leg it was dying being forgotten about and for Dale Jr to do all this get the track back restore it bring it back to its former glory it puts the biggest smile on my face because I have been a Nascar fan since I could remember I want to thank everybody who has been a part of this project for bringing history to the modern era. is is something no one will ever forget. you guys are absolutely legendary. Jr i know your father would be so proud of what your doing to help the sport, to help racing as a whole and keep the community so close and loved. this is what history from the past being revived looks like and also what history being made looks like. and it makes me want to cry to be honest man.
Im 29 and i feel similar i am just happy Nascar is embracing its Roots snd not acting like its to big for the ones that made it!!!
Dale you really made memories for alot of people. Sr was smiling down on you bud. Congratulations on 3 place . 10 laps would made a different out come
Appreciate you man
"My entire life" at 22 years old. You're funny. 😁
@@badad0166 well that would be his “entire life” so he ain’t lying lol
Jr seems like he’s in such a great place in life 👍🏻
Thank-you to Dale Jr. team for putting the paddles on North Wilkesboro and saying clear. You all made the heartbeat again for old school racing.
Nice to see North Wilkesboro again and racecars back on that asphalt.🏁
My first time and met the nicest bunch of people in my life. A lot of boomers like myself but made the 8 hour drive worth it.
Thanks Dale and Markus this track is 1 hour from our home and we will attend. I'm a nascar fan since Cale Yarborough was racing with the Alison's and Petty. We might need some assistance getting to the seats at our age but well worth it. Have fun you lucky drivers and fans of Notth Wilksboro and we'll see you there.
When I first started watching this channel they had the office tv show style interviews and funny office pranks & now to this.. JRM & Dirty Mo Media has grown into a different class of entertainment 👍🏻
I miss the pranks and funny bits
Me and my brother had the best night ever at the race ....thank you 🙏
The August 31, 2022 wasn't just a race, it was an experience.
I grew up a Nascar fan in the 70s-early 80s, then wrenched on LMS, Busch and some Cup .
Visited victory lane many times in LMS, track championships and victory lane in Busch. This race was by far the best (racing) experience I ever felt. Every person in attendance had to feel something.
The shy little kid(Junior of course) has become such a major contributor to the sport that may never be matched.
Man, I love this sport
Best event ever!!! All the way from PA.
If you build it they will come, Jr its good to see you goin back to your roots. Hopefully your able to continue to do it. This was awesome getting to see you after a race on how happy an funny you can be. Just glad to see your able to do what yah love.
Genuine happiness from Dale Jr. Good stuff
I pray many young race fans will have fond memories just like I do since mine go back to the early 60's and their great drivers like Petty, Earnhardts, Fireball, Tiny, Cal, Pearson, Johnson, Allisons, way to many to name.....If my health doesn't get worse hope I get to see another race here. Thank God I'm a country boy from randolph county in the Tarheel state. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
I've said the same sacred names you did many times as I grew upat our local dirt track every Thursday night where Ralph Earnhardt, Jr. Johnson, Cale Yarbrough, Tiny Lund, Fireball Roberts, Lee Petty, Buck Baker and so many others that were literally the class of driver's some of which run moonshine before joining racing and Nascar. It's awesome that FINALLY North Wilkesboro is BACK THANKS TO DALE!!! HIS DAD AND GRANDDAD WOULD BE AND ARE SO PROUD, WATCHING FROM HEAVEN ABOVE 🙏🙏🙏🏁🏆🏁💞🤗💞🙏🙏🙏🙏
I think big E would be so proud of little E for what his trying to doing
It's nice to get a team side perspective for the entire event. Very cool to see how he immersed himself into the field and really just out there having real fun doing what he loves while be really competitive. Awesome. Thanks for taking us all along for the ride!
I’ve been a JR fan since he raced ASA a million years ago and it’s been incredible to watch him transition into one of the most influential men to ever be in NASCAR. What do ya suppose SR would be thinking or doing today had he not lost his life in Daytona ? I’m positive he’s very proud to be JR’s DAD !!!
If he was still here he'd have been driving that race right there with Jr
@@mikelow4374 He would in a heartbeat.
Thank y’all. The tri-county area is indebted to you all for the attention you brought to the track.
This should be broadcasted on the USA network or some form of NBC. Great job DirtyMo media! Very well produced and put together.
Thank you for sharing this, only a true race fan will know. History of this track will always be with us
We just got our racetrack back from the graveyard after 18 years and it’s thriving. Tri City Raceway in West Richland, Wa. This video hit me in the feels real hard. I can tell you, there aren’t any angry fans in stands at the beginning of a grassroots race. So awesome.
I never was a fan of Jr but now he is my hero he quit partying became close to god and became leader your my hero
It's so cool to see life at this track again! History saved. This whole series was awesome!
Dale Jr. Does more for the fans of Racing than anyone else has done in the last 22 yrs.He is the best ambassador for Racing. Anyone who was a fan of his daddy's or of his will show up to watch him race. Heck I only watch when he gets back into a car. I miss him racing full time. I understand his reasons for retiring from full time .His health and his family. But I sure do miss watching him race. I've been waching him since his start in the Busch year 1. He won 2 championships. Thanks Dale Jr. It will always be a thrill to watch you behind the wheel of a racecar. It is totally awesome that as team owner he got the win and the icing on the cake he finished 3rd.
I am an English guy who has never been to your country let alone a Nascar or late model race! I have had a life of F1 , but my dream of seeing a race night like that in the USA is my childhood dream since watching " The Last American Hero" movie in the 80s. Watching this gave me goose bumps!! I have no words other than I think I was born in the wrong country! What a fantastic film, thank you.
Night race at Bristol, in Tennessee........it's unreal!
Come on over when fuel prices fall, mate, you will NOT regret it!
@@crazytrain7114 I think if I come to one race, I would never leave
@@crazytrain7114 maybe next year, you still have too many bullshit Covid restrictions for foreigners, so when that's dropped, its possible!?
@@abritandhisbikeinpoland6802 we have basically 0 restrictions.
This is awesome, Thank you Dale
Truly a moving documentary.
So very thankful to have watched this race, I've been a fan of racing since the 80's and who would have thought my music career would have crossed paths with nascar and the #3 and it was such an honor to be a part of that music video and that song at this historical place❤️I remember thinking way back then in 2010 that the track would get back to racing 😎✌️❤️
Much respect for you, Dale Jr showing the support to the winner 🏆. See him win to help promote that youg man's future 👏 👍
Holy smokes that was a great event, thanks Jr.
Thank you to everybody for bringing back North Wilkesboro Speedway!
Awesome!!
That was just freaking awesome. NWB has always been one of my favorite tracks. Thanks for sharing.
Enjoyed this race so much . I can't wait to go back. You folks did a wonderful job.
Man.. Idk if anyone else geeks out over Jr's aesthetic as much as I do but he looks so god damn badass with those gloves & his custom Stilo helmets. He used to run an oddly shaped helmet back when he first moved to Hendrick & had Adidas gloves, I believe..
Ever since 2013, he switched to AlpineStars fire suit, Stilo helmet & the iconic skeleton gloves. There's just something about that look that turns me into such a freakin' nerd lmao
Maybe I'm the only one who feels like this.. Maybe not
This was so awesome! Feels like I went back into time! Thank you so much!
What an awesome series of videos! Great work! As always Dirty Mo Media hits one out of the park! Dirty Mo and his brand do more for the sport of racing than any other entity! His whole team is truly passionate about the sport and it shows! The Dale Jr. Download is a must listen/watch if you are a fan of any form of racing! Or even baseball or football! :)
Loved it and I have many friends who live in N Wilkesboro area I wish had told me about this event.
I remember filming Sunday drive with Tim Dugger there many years ago. Such a beautiful place so full of awesome history and I hope to return there soon to see a race! ❤️❤️❤️
My 1st NASCAR race I ever went too, was the Tyson/Holly Farms 400 in the very early 90’s! Myself, and a group of friends from Huntington, Wv (Dixie Thunder Race Shop) came down. Me, Deana Leedy and her crew had a blast. The day I heard Wilkesboro was closing, it brought a tear to my eye. Then the day I heard it was “coming back”, I had those feelings from the 90s again. I didn’t make it for the return date, but I can promise you, I’LL BE BACK as well!
The old tracks is where it’s at, great race.
Great great great job! Only wish the rescue act could get some funds to revive my favorite dirt track growing up. Challenger Speedway in Jacksonville Pennsylvania. Saw my first 50 lap late model feature there. It’s what really got me hooked on racing!! Great job again guys!
The folding chairs are fantastic.
So awesome! Can't wait to see the Cup All-star race there!
Dale Earnhardt Jr thank you Think you for what you done getting north wilksboro open again . like to see Rockingham race track open again.jr your fan always Thomas cates..
This is what nascar use to be and drivers use to be. Dale jr has inherited the old styles and thinking which i sure miss. I use live in Daytona.since Nascar changed the races were the cars and all the old veterans are gone, I don't watch it anymore. The spirit of Dale and Dale Jr, Bobby and Donnie, Mark, Cale, it's nothing but kids rich kids raised on rich kids tracks and go carts.
So awesome thanks mate from Australia
Really appreciate enjoy the hole content of this rival. I hope there will also be good content for the races in October for the dirt racing and for a new future for 2023.
@Roy Rogers.
Sir there not having dirt races in October. The All Star race will be held there in May of 2023. Leaving the track as it is right now.
These late models sound incredible
Truly awesome, I’m hoping to get a ticket to the all star race.
Noticed that cheetah print case there Junebug lol
Good to see it back. I can't believe Dale Jr drinks Bud Select 55's, I thought I was the only one. And they are so hard to find in stores. Maybe if he would say he likes em they would be more available.
Fantastic video.....👏👏
Great job all congrats Jr motorsports !!
I remember playing in the pits with Jr at the Rock;) Marion Johnson was the flag man his son Larry hooked us up;)
Ready for Peacock boys!
Then on to the Emmys!
Amazing work! Please start uploading in 4K
This has actually re-fired me up to wanting to watch. After Sr. died, I tried to hang on for a few years, but as the gimmicks started, I just lost interest. Return to this kind of racing, you brought an ‘ol timer back.
Omg this is Amazing
That’s awesome 👍🏽
Rockford Speedway, I Rockford Illinois just announced it will close at the end of this season. It is a real sad time.
What a accomplishment
Great work! Great production!
The music and cuts might not be my picks.....but if Kelley likes it, it's perfect! Lol 👍
Gotta get to Rockingham next!!
Here from the Dale Jr Download BTW
Dale Jr rules
Some irony, I scroll down just a tick and TH-cam has the 1995 race by ESPN. Talk about fate.
Love wilksboro
"We're all family tonight"
Ryan Newman's Modified win was awesome
Found you haven't been Home in a while I remember when Júnior Johnson trying to bring it back and seeing Harry Gant #33 Hope they build some RV parks My family lives around Taylorsville I live in FL
We had my drum set set up in victory lane on top of the building it was hot as f🔥 lol we all look like lobsters for days 😂 we all got sunburned bad lol good times 😎
13:10 These cats are eloquent. The one dude was maybe a little corporate slick, but the other guys were magical and sincere.
Had season seats there for a long time, Mr Staley was a good owner, remember one year it was cold and we camp at the number three turn, and he came by and put us in side the number one turn against the fence, we watch Dale daddy crew change motor in the number 3 car at night, and it was snowing, my son was a young boy at time, and Sunday race, a older lady was outside and we ask her to sit in camper with us and watch race,
If Wiklesboro was revived could riverside be rebuilt? Two of my favorite tracks of the 80’s would love too have riverside replace Sonoma
Well sure hope it makes it cause this is what our country needs the short tracks I have felt nascar has got away from that
"Other" sports stadiums have figured this out but the local oval tracks are spotty at best. Put the lights behind the grandstands and have them reflect back to the people paying for the show. Not sure where NW stands in this argument, just felt the urge to vent. It's not a parking lot, its a race track. p.s. Love the "unrestored" vintage vibe.
Kinda hope they keep the Winston markings
Time to add Rockingham on the schedule too!!
Last time i seen this track was when dale sr won
You guy have just been dumping a ton of videos today.
NASCAR is dead, but it’s nice to see Jr. doing CPR. Now, it just needs the hand of God to save it.
Great video but we kind of knew his name just without a couple letters then
I prefer old worn out, beat down lookin tracks. Everyone these days wants everything to look brand new & clean. Everyone is so OCD these days & I dont want a track like that. Tracks werent like that in the 80s & 90s but everyone wants everything to "look" pretty when that really doesnt matter to the race.
North Wilkesboro doesn't need NASCAR to come back to survive. With some great promoting they could be stronger than there cup days. Maybe some North South shootouts with modified and one thing there's plenty of in the northeast is late model stock cars. Heck even some street stock touring series would be cool there. Give Cleetus McFarland a burnout pad and he would bring his Crown Vic racing series there.
5/8 mile. Perfect super speedway of a short track.
I love that they didn’t repaint the place- I hope they don’t.
I hope SRX gets booked in there. It’s way far for me to see a race there in person but there’s too many glitzy tracks with no character
A little padding in the front and back and you could have a 90 minute special to run before the 2023 All Star Race ..... If I remember correctly you need about 69-70 minutes of content for 90 minutes of broadcast TV .... Maybe a 10 minute segment on how the ALL Star Race at North Wilkesboro came to be
Nashville fairgrounds is the old school track i want see so bad back in NASCAR again so many legends cut there teeth there Darrell waltrip sterling marlin bobby Hamilton jeff and david greene etc.
29:21 Mooncar! If ya know...ya know!
What about coming to Kentucky if there is a place
Lol first part has top gun vibes lol
Hopefully they were really cheering for Brandon for fixing up the track.
Where cant I get a Sundrop hat and shirt?
Hey JR I LOVE YOUR TRUCK CAN I HAVE IT WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH IT
Did Dale Sr ever win at this track ?
I'd rather go to a small home town track than a super speedway.
1st
There was the 3 coming out of 4
Hey, how about points racing revival?? Get rid of the stupid pitstops and " chase racing", or are they setting us up for eracing?
warning Don't Drink and drive troopers are like Fly's in a cow barn