Dale Jarrett
Dale Jarrett
Dale Arnold Jarrettis a former American race car driver and current sports commentator known for winning the Daytona 500 three timesand winning the NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship in 1999. He is the son of 2-time Grand National Champion Ned Jarrett, younger brother of Glenn Jarrett, father of former driver Jason Jarrett, and cousin of Todd Jarrett. In 2007, Jarrett joined the ESPN/ABC broadcasting team as an announcer in select Nationwide Series races. In 2008, after retiring from driving following...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth26 November 1956
CityConover, NC
close happen hard late racing
We're late in the season, and a lot of things happen here, so I don't think that the close and hard racing is over, ... I think you're going to see a lot of it.
ability corner good people work
You have the ability to keep that thing right around the bottom, then you can get off the corner good enough and that's what a lot of people work on.
hit knew next pick run sure trying
We were just trying to pick our way through there. The next thing I knew I got hit in the back. I wanted to make sure I didn't run over anything.
car caution damage despite good happened happy loose race saturday tires tony warming wheel
We had a pretty good race car in May, we just didn't have a lot of things go our way, ... We had a wheel come loose and we actually were down a lap. Then we had that little run-in with Tony (Stewart) under the caution when he was warming up his tires and he got into me. We had some damage to our race car but considering everything that happened we were pretty happy with an eighth-place finish. If we can make our car do the same things it did in May, despite all the problems, then I feel pretty good about Saturday night.
air best clear guys next sign
They see it as a sign of weakness. Other guys try to clear the air before the next race, which I think is the best way.
allowed cars either jump page pass saw sit understanding whatever
They don't pass inspection, they're allowed to sit there and jump up and down on their cars and whatever they need to do everything I saw (reported) was either on the back page or the next-to-last page, ... I'm sorry, but I'm not understanding what you all (media) are doing here.
There is the way that you go about things, the setups that are run,
carolina credit drivers far few majority north quite south spread throughout united
You wouldn't have thought it would have spread out quite this much, as far as just how few drivers are from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. We still have some, but the majority are spaced out throughout the United States. I think it's just a credit to the sport and how much it's grown.
bad beat bit competition either everybody finish level missing outside reasonable run setup slight teams top win
You still have to beat everybody to win a title, but the level of competition has changed. In '99, if we had an off day, we could still run in the top 10 most of the time. Now, if you have just a little bit of an off day, you're going to finish outside of the top 20. You have so many teams that can make you go from a reasonable day to a really bad day with either just missing the setup or having a slight problem.
captured lie
You can't lie about anything. Everything here is captured on film and tape.
fate guess issues regards seals season
This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase. We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.
fate guess issues regards seals season
This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase, ... We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.
far respect todd
As far as our relationship, that's great, ... I have a lot of respect for Todd and everything that he's done and accomplished here.
five gonna particular putting replace road
I think we've recovered. It will never be the same because, again, you're not gonna replace someone like that. ... But the sport is in a better position, (and) a lot of that still comes - even five years down the road now - from the things that Dale did and was doing and was putting into place at that particular time.