NASCAR is a big racing organization that runs stock-car races. It decides things like the race schedule and rules, and those choices can change what fans expect.
Race tracks are the venues NASCAR and other series use to host events. The segment points out that if new tracks aren’t being built, the series has to “fit” more races into existing facilities.
A street race happens when regular city streets are closed off and used like a race track for a day or weekend. It takes a lot of planning to make it safe.
“Double dates” means running two races at the same place in a year. The idea here is that some tracks used to get two races, but they’ve been reduced to one because it’s been successful.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series is like NASCAR’s “next step down” from the biggest top series. It’s still high-level racing, and it’s often used when the top race can’t happen at a track.
“Bristol” refers to Bristol Motor Speedway, another iconic NASCAR oval. The speakers include it among the tracks that shape the schedule they’re debating.
“Vegas” refers to the NASCAR event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The segment connects it to the idea of a West Coast swing—grouping races geographically to reduce travel.
A “West Coast swing” means NASCAR schedules several races close together on the West Coast. That way, teams don’t have to travel back and forth as much.
“Cherry pick” means choosing only the races you think you’ll do best in. The series wants teams to race more consistently, not just pick the easiest events.
They’re talking about how the series should reward people who race consistently. The idea is that showing up and competing every week should matter more than just having a big moment once.
A points fund is money that gets paid out based on how well teams and drivers do in the standings. Here, they’re saying the money is split between the team owners and the drivers.
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They’re saying sponsors are great, but teams shouldn’t rely on them as their only lifeline. The goal is to have enough money to improve the team and keep operating.
Taking cars “off” for a couple of weeks usually means pausing competition due to logistics, funding, or operational issues. In racing, even short pauses can affect momentum, sponsorship obligations, and driver/team rhythm.
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Racing often helps you get really good at reading the car and the track. If you stop doing it regularly, you may feel a small drop in how quickly you react and how precise you are.
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So going back to, going back to Rockingham, there's a, you know, after a great successful
weekend, a lot of questions around should the Cup Series go to that racetrack.
You know, I don't know.
I think it would be a good race.
I'd love to see the Cup Series back at Rockingham.
Yeah.
I don't think any of us knew in 2004 that we were running our last cup race there.
One thing I like about Rockingham that is the entry of the corners is really tight.
Like when you're side by side with somebody, it makes racing, you're going into a funnel
kind of them.
I mean, there's going to be contact at times, especially when you got like, that's what
it's close racing.
You got guys that are going to be really good on the bottom and you're going to have, you're
going to have guys that are good up top and I don't see how a cup car doesn't move around
there with the right, you know, Goodyear has been doing a great job bringing tires.
So I don't see, I think the race would be pretty good.
Yeah.
I think it'd be pretty fun.
You know, you can go some places and the atmosphere just feels right.
It tracks like you just get the atmosphere.
Yeah.
It just feels like that there.
Okay.
Like it just, you feel like you're supposed to be there.
Well, I know that's weird, but no, it isn't.
It isn't.
You know, I just feel like there's still part of me that's kind of annoyed that we left
in the first place, you know, but I'm trying to, you know, get over that saying, you know,
just like it's kind of like this falls into the bucket with like full season points and
all that.
And I'm just so exhausted with, you know, why would we ever leave there to begin with?
I know.
And so I don't want to kind of beat this dead horse or rehash all of the hurt feelings over
all that, you know, but yeah, I mean, I would, I would love for us to go back there.
And that, but there seems to be, there seems to be a battle I think NASCAR is kind of having
within itself as a, you know, at the top of the executive level of man, you know, we got
this core fan base that loves Rockingham, loves full season points, loves all these things
that are very traditional and connected to the history of the sport, but we also have
doors opening to us that weren't open before like racing in San Diego is a great example
to Chicago Street course.
Like those were not doors that were open 15 years ago.
Oh my gosh.
But now there's all types of, there's all types of opportunities and cities that are
like, Hey, come on over here, come do this, what, what, what can we, how can we have a
NASCAR race?
Where should we, you know, and so nobody's building any new race tracks, you know, and
so they're like, well, let's figure this out.
It's racing a stadium.
Let's race on the streets.
Let's race here.
Let's race there.
And so NASCAR has all these shiny new things and all these people that want to want to
have conversations.
And they look over here and go, yeah, Rockingham, that's cool.
But, you know, we did that.
So they're in a tough spot, you know, of deciding because there's not enough dates.
There's not enough days in the year.
There's not enough.
There ain't enough calendar for all of it.
And so something has to, something has to go, you know,
I mean, it's kind of a, I mean, that's kind of a good problem to have at some point.
You got a lot of places to go, right?
Well, it's good problem unless you're one of the places that gets left out.
Yeah.
And you got these contracts where these tracks already have probably have agreements for,
so it's like, how do you remove?
Yeah.
Well, I think that the agreements have shortened up to where they're, they're, they're one
to three years.
I don't know that they're, they're that adhered to like they were in the past.
The schedule is much more malleable and changeable than it has ever been.
And so, and NASCAR wants that.
They want the opportunity to act fast, you know, if something, if an opportunity pops
up, they want to be able to make that change and fit it in and shoehorn that in.
You know, I think it's a simple solution
that actually might take some time, though, is to dial back some of the double
dates, you know, that's what, that's what's kind of happened in, in the sport
already is a lot of tracks that had two races has been dialed back to one.
We've seen that be a success for a lot of race tracks.
And so, you know, maybe, maybe there is another venue or two on the schedule
that goes from two to one races a year
to be able to add on, you know, tack on this, this new opportunity or this
old rocking ham NASCAR looks at the geographical footprint a lot, I'm sure,
and says, where are we racing?
Do we need to race another event in the state of North Carolina instead
of going over here where we are nowhere, you know, where we have no race, right?
Not no races within a state or two.
They're going to go for that new opportunity every time.
But, you know, it there's some race tracks that, you know, the rally series goes to
that I'm like, why, you know, I don't want to single anybody out.
But there's a couple of race tracks that we go to.
I'm like, what are we doing here?
Why are we at this?
You know, cups never going to come here.
Why are we here?
But that it's way out of there's a couple of them.
Yes. And, you know, I think it's I think having the Xfinity series or I'm sorry,
the rally series and the truck series at Rockingham is a really great compromise.
If we can't be there with cup, maybe we can get there one day, you know,
and maybe it's an all star event just like North Wiltsboro.
Maybe it's the maybe our way back is through that kind of an avenue
of having an exhibition there of some sort.
Where would you if you could pull a second race from somewhere and put it
around to look at the schedule?
I mean, you got Phoenix, Vegas, Talladega, Bristol.
I would pull a Phoenix.
Yeah, I'd put it.
I'd pull a Phoenix.
Do we need to go to Phoenix twice?
Oh, I mean, yeah.
But NASCAR is going to go.
Whoa, we can't we can't take one out of the market of the West Coast.
What? We already lost Auto Club and yeah.
And then we do that swing.
You kind of do the West Coast swing together when you go to Vegas.
But yeah, but I don't know.
I mean, I'm not I think Phoenix is evolving.
But I'm not a big Phoenix was really great.
Then they then they changed this configuration.
I'm not a big fan of, you know, how they drive across the apron.
It was a really, really awesome badass race track that didn't need to be changed.
But we've seen that not only at Phoenix,
we've seen it at other places as well.
Yeah, I don't know.
I I don't want to do the what ifs or where, you know,
I don't want to on any old race tracks.
I know I got I like a lot of all of them.
Yeah. But well, I don't know how they're going to get it into the schedule,
but maybe it's the same route that Wilkesville took.
And I think fans would be perfectly fine with that.
All right, I'm actually really excited to hear y'all's opinions on this one.
If Corey Heim finishes the season in the top 10 in points,
he should be eligible to race for the truck series chase spot on spot off.
Freddie, I'm going to say spot off because rules are rules
and people would approach things differently, I think.
But it's it's still I mean, it's it's it's not going to happen
because I don't think he's going to run enough races to be in the top 10.
At the end of the year, he's kind of front loaded this
schedule, and I don't know that he's going to he may be adding more
for the rest of the year, maybe, but it's still it's incredible, man.
It's ridiculous that he's got two less races, two less races, Mark,
and is leading the truck series points right now.
I mean, how impressive is that?
I mean, just on itself, we talk about how great this kid is,
but how impressive is that to just have two less races and be the series point leader?
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
And I'm kind of like you, the rules are the rules.
I don't understand the rule.
I say if you score enough points to be in the top 10,
you ought to be able to run, but the rules are the rules.
So they made those rules, I think, for a different reason.
And all that all the way goes back to the winter circle, back in the 70s,
which was pay out money when they had to get people to sign a contract
that said that the Wood Brothers would show up at every race,
for example, instead of cherry pick.
I think it's outdated.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, and they had it for the like the chase because they were worried
about guys coming in and winning one off races,
which we all thought was impossible till SVG did it.
But, you know, but, you know, that's why they had that rule.
And now I think you can kind of get rid of it.
The only thing I would say is like from a serious perspective,
I guess like when it comes to like Mark's point, the payout and things like that,
like you want to reward those that consistently are, you know,
they're supporting and racing every week.
But then at the same time, that team technically is all the time.
You know what I mean?
Like, so I kind of could go either way on it, to be honest.
It's well, he's driven for two different teams, right?
I mean, the same team, same team, two to five trucks.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
But TriCon is there every week, even though Corey isn't.
But what he is doing is he's helping the owners
points for those trucks, which pay out money at the end of the year as well.
So I think it's 50 50 in the trucks.
They pay 50 percent of the owners points
fund and 50 percent goes to the drivers.
So he is helping one side of it.
Yeah. And and Mark, I wanted to ask you this, is Corey not the best example
of our business model is broken when it comes to the drivers?
And like the fact that this guy doesn't have a full time ride somewhere?
It is. But golly, you know, I also say it's OK to have to wait.
I mean, yeah, I agree 100 percent.
He should have a full time cup ride, but he will have.
It's in the it's going to happen.
And he's gracefully waiting his turn.
So I think that's good.
Another thing that we didn't mention is, you know,
you don't ever talk about making money anymore.
But when I came along, it was important.
If I finished tying a good paying race, that meant something.
Well, Corey has just cashed in.
Yeah, you know, let's not, you know, overlook the fact that they, you know,
won what, 150 grand in bonuses in the last two races.
Yeah, for sure. And you were talking about the business we saw this week.
Nick Sanchez sits home because, you know, that team kind of is going through
some tough times. Well, that was Nick Sanchez doesn't have a ride this year
strictly because of money.
Somebody came in, took his ride because that guy had more money.
And you look at you match up what Nick Sanchez did to this point last year.
And what that guy is Patrick Starpoli is doing up to this point in the same car.
Nick had four top 10s at this point last year.
Patrick's averaging like a 20 second place finish.
You know, so Tommy or Mark, I can't you got to help me understand
at what point does the business model flip to where it can't.
But I'm just saying it's like you're you're taking more money,
but you're not getting return on your investment.
You know, like there's no money coming in.
I don't know how it's the big is the window that big that you're never going
to make it back by putting a good driver in your car versus taking an extra two
million dollars now with every time and every time you gamble on that.
Same man, we're going to do better and we're going to run good.
The money happened. Yeah.
And it happens in plus the 90 percent of the time the money doesn't come
and you're out of business. Right. That's the that's the real problem.
Yeah. Is the money doesn't come. Right.
That, you know, you win all that stuff, but you still don't get the money
and there's not enough purse money to make up for exactly.
I mean, I've said it numerous times in the O'Reilly series is the worst business
model out of all three series. Yeah. Most of it's because, unfortunately,
it's because of the engine program. And I mean, it's a nine hundred million
dollar investment every year, maybe a little bit more on some other manufacturers
just to put the key in the door. It's that's the engine bill. Right.
It's that's so, you know, they I think they run enough races.
I don't think the truck runs enough races.
But, you know, I'm saying it's just it's hard, man.
The business model is hard.
And again, that's what Michael Jordan was fighting for in the cup side of it.
You know, during during all the fights last year, it's just like we have
to be able to self sustain what we have without finding having a spot.
The sponsorship should be added bonus to us, right?
It should be what so we can invest in and build better race teams
and build better tools and do the stuff. A lot of the teams are just getting
enough getting by every week, right?
And you're seeing the 30 team shut down, right?
The O'Reilly thing, the 25 shut down.
The five cars going to take a couple of weeks off, right?
It's just it's hard.
It's you you you you put your key in the door with a dream, right?
So so to your point, Freddie, I get a hundred percent.
I'm a hundred percent with you.
Unfortunately, it's never going back.
It's just like, I mean, it's never going back.
And, you know, I think back to 1987, I ran the full schedule
with an open trailer, cube van and two racecars.
You could do it then, you know, and you could afford to hire a great driver
like Sam Art or Tommy Ellis or something.
You but you it's it's a different world we live in now.
And unfortunately, you can't put that back in the bottle.
You can't put this expensive racing vehicles and operation back in the bottle.
The other thing I saw this week that was really funny
that kind of had me laughing was do you watch anything with Theo Vaughn?
Yeah, so he interviewed Ella Langley, who were all like, what?
Who's Ella Langley? What? Who is that?
Who is it? The little brunette that sings country music.
Excuse me. You look like you love me. You look like you love me.
I'm sorry. You're not an Ella fella.
You're not an Ella fella.
We listen to Ella Langley at least 14,000 times when we were in Texas.
Is that the song she's from Texas? I can tell.
Yeah, I don't know who that is.
So he interviews Ella Langley and she brought a guitar
and he's like, hey, you know, I want you to sing one of your songs.
You'll sing a song and she's like, OK, sure, you pick one out.
And so he picks a dandelion.
And before she ever got to play in it, he's like, I sometimes feel like a dandelion.
And she looks at him like, wait, what? You do?
That doesn't align with you.
You feel I feel like you're more like a rose and he's like, no, I'm more like a vine.
You know, one of the ones that grows on your house that you can't get rid of.
Yeah. So they surmise he was like a kudzu.
She was hilarious.
I can't get enough of like watching it where his brain goes.
But it got me thinking if I had to declare you a flower, what would it be?
And I feel like you're more like a fiddle fig tree.
Hell, the fiddle fig tree.
Well, here's hear me out.
So like everyone likes a fiddle fig tree.
You know, the tree I have in the sunroom, the big giant one.
Hmm. Sunroom.
Which room is that? Oh, my God.
TV. Hi, I'm Amy.
Have you have we met before?
I don't know. I know we had a sunroom.
OK. It used to be a porch that is now like the butler's pantry.
Yeah, the butler's pantry.
Yeah. So it's kind of like the plant room too.
OK. That big giant tree. OK.
That's a fiddle fig.
They they are really nice to look at.
Everyone seems to like them.
They're very hard to take care of.
Oh, it's a kind of fickle.
Like you can't move them.
They like to stay in their place.
If you overwater them, they're mad.
If you underwater them, the leaves fall off.
Perfect. Yeah.
So you're like a fiddle fig. OK. Yeah.
What am I? Oh, man, I mean, you're just pink rose.
A pink rose, the basic flower.
Well, a pink rose. I don't know.
I mean, Travis, what are you?
Are you an azalea since you love the master so much this week?
Maybe like a cactus.
No, you're giving cactus vibes.
You like pink drinks.
You're not a cactus.
Let's see.
You're an orchid.
I'm an orchid. Yeah.
Did you look at my notes?
That's my favorite flower.
Does that mean I'm an orchid?
Do you know anything about orchids?
Oh, yeah. What do you know about orchids?
There, if orchids, when you get one from the store,
you got to be real careful with it, because, you know, it could get damaged
and you could you could you could ruin it real easy on the way home.
And they need to be in the sun.
No, by the window.
And they.
They they bloom and they're beautiful.
And then they go sort of dormant.
But then they kind of come back when this when the season, you know,
when the season's right, they kind of bloom again like most flowers, I suppose.
But when they're dormant,
they're pretty, pretty normal.
It's just a little it's just one little stick.
One little stick.
Yeah. When they're dormant, you're supposed to leave them alone.
Yeah. Don't touch it.
Don't touch it. Don't think about touching it.
That's exactly you.
Like when when you're when you're in a mood, when you're in a mood
like an orchid, you got to leave it alone. Don't touch it.
Don't even come over here.
I try to sneak in a hug and some cuddling.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
But Amy loves orchids.
And so I think that that's not a basic
B flower at all. No, it's not a pink roses orchids are very.
Well, I'm just said that out of first thing popped in my brain.
Women love roses, but we do.
There's nothing wrong with roses orchids are very peculiar in particular.
They're beautiful.
They're unique and special and rare ish.
And so they're kind of hard to mess.
They're hard to grow. They're hard to take care of.
They take some effort.
Yeah, it does. It takes some effort. Yeah. Yeah.
The big concussion you had no nine, I suppose, was it?
Is that the only time I'm sure you've been banged around
and run your bill multiple times?
We all go through those.
Yeah, it was by far the worst.
I shouldn't have lived through that for one really there.
I can't remember the guy's name that I think it was with GM.
And he was one of the safety guys.
And he passed away not long.
I can't probably about eight, nine years ago or maybe not been that long ago.
Anyways, I did have a computer in a car
and I just like the aim system for the gauges, stuff like that.
And NASCAR came and looked at the car after the strike.
And they took the computer and he had said that.
He's never seen a spike straight up.
Well, the computer only went to 100 G's, but it was straight up.
He goes, it's always on an angle.
He says, this thing was straight up.
He goes, I can't guess.
Can you guess what that would have been after they they came
and looked at the car and everything?
I mean, it was it was tore up.
It was it was pretty bad.
But but I had broke a lot of stuff.
I mean, I was I was in ICU for four days.
I meant there.
I don't think it was one of those touch and goal things.
But I mean, it was my lung, my kidneys and and all that were in pretty bad shape.
The same with the.
I guess knocking my head.
And I was bleeding out of my ear and all that fun stuff.
There's but I have my moments where I can't remember what happened yesterday.
Yeah. And then, you know, I got to figure out.
I don't know if there's a way around that.
I know. I mean, I'll say this.
I'm not a doctor.
And so I'm not, you know, for everybody listening,
like, I don't fancy myself as an expert of any kind.
But, you know, I started.
You know, going through the process of the symptoms
and went to see my doctor in Pittsburgh and.
From the moment that I realized that I wasn't all right,
I started analyzing myself daily.
And I recognized or or.
You know, when I would forget where I put something or forget
why I walked across the room to the refrigerator, I would I recognize that
and I would highlight that in my mind as a moment.
And and I went to him, you know, I'm going to him through this process
and telling him everything I'm trying to be as transparent as possible.
And I'm, man, you know, the other day I did this,
the other day this happened the other day, I turned my head and I felt this
and I forgot this and forgot that.
And he's like.
He's like, you can't put every single thing that happens in the concussion bin.
Just because you forgot where your keys were doesn't mean that's a concussion related thing.
Some things are just going to happen.
People forget names and birthdays and things they said they were going to do
all the time. Yeah.
And I needed to stop analyzing every day
and sort of tracking every day is this sort of, you know,
trying to understand the, you know, the metrics of wherever if I'm in and I am proving.
And so I kind of asked, you know.
I am forgetful.
Is that related to my concussions, maybe not entirely?
If you said, man, remember what you said yesterday and I don't,
I don't get all that in that shape about it because I didn't in the moment
when I when I did it, I didn't file it away is something very important
because we get we've tuned ourselves to only file away the things that are critical.
And, you know, I don't I don't know.
I think that now there are some things that are real, you know,
there are some symptoms and issues that are real.
And I'll tell you this.
I am I am not the same version.
I'm not, you know, I kind of call myself this is 2.0.
It was the first there was that one version before the wreck and now there's this version.
And I think a hundred percent, right?
And that that that I had to that I just had to come to terms with.
Right.
Then not everything was going to I wasn't going to be as sharp or as as elite
or as I wanted to be.
And another thing I'll tell you, too.
And I think you can appreciate this.
It's like when we're racing a car every single week,
all of those senses are so perfectly finely tuned there.
And when you get out of that rotation and you no longer do it day in and day out,
you never you can't, you know, when you do go back and get behind the car,
you see that five or three or four percent that's not there.
Yeah.
That the other guys have that they're the other guys that are doing it every single
week, you don't have it, you don't.
And you're not going to.
And the the one thing I don't have a problem is is actually being in a car.
Yeah.
And I think it's I think you got to concentrate so hard.
Yeah, that forces you.
It forces you to just stay on track, right?
I mean, sometimes under caution, you find yourself like, yeah, get back.
I'd rather go back green now.
Yeah.
And and so I did have that problem in a car and I and I don't have the the problem
if I if I trip, I remember reflexes are still pretty good.
Yeah.
And so I don't I don't know what area that that it is.
But I but I'll get the horrendous headache and that I never used to have before.
Ever.
I mean, it's probably just started in the last three, four years, you would get
that, but only only for a short minute.
But God, it feels like your head's getting cut off, you know, and then it kind
of goes away and and it I've had to know my times to walk across shop to get
something and not know what you went over there for.
Yeah.
And then you get back and then you go, oh, crap.
What the hell, you know, what was I even looking for?
And then I have to think of what I was doing because I may have two or three
different things going on and in, you know, from building cars and all the
machining, your heads always always rotate in and because I still always have
this great ideas for some of the race car to do.
But I don't want to put the energy into it now.
You know, in terms of the, you know, the memory and head, you know, I feel like
that my doubt, you know, I had this really great vision.
And most of my career and like 2010 always had really good vision.
And then I had the the concussions and stuff.
And when he sent me to an eye doctor, I'm like, oh, my eyes are great.
You know, I don't know.
I got to see this eye doctor during this whole process, but the guy started
putting glasses on me and I picked my mom's glasses up one day and I was like,
wow, I didn't even know my vision was steering off in the wrong direction.
But it is.
And so now I wear glasses all the time.
And he's like, you know, you were probably, I was like, I was so disappointed in
that, man, this wreck and this injury has messed up my vision.
I really was going to have great vision all my life.
I loved being able to breathe and see everything.
And now I got to wear glasses.
And without glasses, I'm literally useless, right?
If I sit on the couch with Amy and I don't have my glasses on, she's like, check
us out on my phone.
I'm like, I can't see.
And so I hate that, but my doctor's like, you were going to get this way.
He's like, this accelerated it a little bit, but you were going to do this.
And so it's kind of similar with the memory and like, is my memory as sharp
as I think it should be?
No, but it was probably, you know, this is likely, you know, an aging process.
Anyways, maybe it's a little more profound.
But I do that too.
I'll, I'll, I'll walk across the shop when I'm working at the shop and walking
across there for a particular bid or something like that and a tool or whatever
and get over there and go, what the hell was I, what did I need?
Sometimes it comes back in five minutes.
Sometimes it's two days.
You know, that's a, you know, that's probably the best way to look at it.
It's usually nothing bothers me.
I don't really do well on it.
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About this episode
Rockingham’s return to NASCAR sparks debate: the tight, side-by-side “funnel” corners could make Cup racing exciting, and the atmosphere still feels right—though schedule politics, contracts, and the sport’s push for newer markets complicate bringing it back. The conversation then shifts to Corey Heim’s truck-series eligibility rules and how points/chase spots work when a driver runs fewer races. Broader discussion tackles NASCAR’s strained business model, sponsorship dependence, and team shutdowns. The episode also includes a light Theo Vaughn/Ella Langley “flower” bit and a personal concussion recovery story.
Only have 30 minutes? Spend it the best way you can - with us! It's time for the Dirty Thirty, where you get the best half hour from this week's Dirty Mo Media shows.
In Dirty Air this week, Dale Jr. talks about Rockingham and ponders why the Cup Series left the track in the first place — and the possible tracks you could replace it with on the schedule.
Over on Door Bumper Clear, Mark Martin joined to talk about Corey Heim's incredible start to the season, but his ineligibility for the Truck Series chase.
On this week's Bless Your 'Hardt, Amy took inspiration from Ella Langley and Theo Von's conversation on what flower they would be. Her pick for Dale was perfect, and his ... got there eventually.
Last but not least, on the guest episode this week, Johnny Benson and Dale Jr. discuss their lingering concussion symptoms and the crash that lingered with Johnny the longest.
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