did anyone ever stand up to dale earnhardt?

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we've seen drivers go after one another over the years but i can't remember one time where a driver actually went after dale.

it seems like once dale wrecked someone the driver would just shrug their shoulders and say "oh well"

like bristol with terry labonte. how did he not go after dale?

i dont think he ever retaliated either on track spinning him out
 
jayandtim said:
we've seen drivers go after one another over the years but i can't remember one time where a driver actually went after dale.

it seems like once dale wrecked someone the driver would just shrug their shoulders and say "oh well"

like bristol with terry labonte. how did he not go after dale?

i dont think he ever retaliated either on track spinning him out
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That's because Labonte still won the race.
 
You are right in most ways...... Dale..... for some reason was a one of a kind in that respect..... the water bottle incident at Bristol with Rusty is the only one I recall.
 
Snappy D said:
That fight would have been epic, I think the Earnhardt and Wallace fans would have fought each other too
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Wasn't that when he wrecked Rusty on the first lap at Bristol? I remember the next day everyone saying there was a big fight on the bridge back to one of the campgrounds between #2 and #3 fans....
 
Yogisd1 said:
That's because Labonte still won the race.
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He won one....Dale won the one he wrecked Labonte after Labonte wrecked while leading with 15 laps to go or so. Dale took the lead, Labonte came in for new tires under caution, caught him and passed him, then Dale wrecked him and about 6 others on the last lap. That was the "didn't mean to wreck him, just rattle his cage" race. Labonte said, "Isn't that what he always says?".
 
kymartin6 said:
Very typical Earnhardt move that Jeremy made there..... Earnhardt made it multiple times.... Jeremy done it perfectly..... Too bad Jeremy made so many bad moves afterward..... a racing fortune thrown away........
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I think he would have won a Cup or two
 
I wish I could find this somewhere on youtube or elsewhere but I recall DW telling a story once about a race where he did something that Dale didn't like and he later dumped Waltrip hard. DW said he was physically hurt, enough that he was in real pain for a few days after. DW goes during the week to talk to Dale about it in his shop, wherever it was I don't recall. Earnhardt was there milling around the garage and DW came in thinking they'd talk it out or find some sort of mediation in the whole thing. They said hello and neither said much of anything and then after a long silence Earnhardt said "Well, did you learn anything?"
 
kymartin6 said:
I don't know about a Cup...... but...... he would have had a very lucrative career and retired very nicely.......
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Yeah, Mayfield was already on the downside of his career when all the drug stuff happened. He went from Penske to Evernham to MWR to his own team, so everything after Penske was a progressive step down IMO.
 
He burned bridges wherever he went and left. It's why he was in his own car. Anyone see the house he built then had to let go because he couldn't pay for it? Wow. And it just went into ruin. They finally burned it down but it was huge and a beautiful layout.
 
Bob said:
I wish I could find this somewhere on youtube or elsewhere but I recall DW telling a story once about a race where he did something that Dale didn't like and he later dumped Waltrip hard. DW said he was physically hurt, enough that he was in real pain for a few days after. DW goes during the week to talk to Dale about it in his shop, wherever it was I don't recall. Earnhardt was there milling around the garage and DW came in thinking they'd talk it out or find some sort of mediation in the whole thing. They said hello and neither said much of anything and then after a long silence Earnhardt said "Well, did you learn anything?"
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Isn't this what its all about? Teaching respect?

Sometimes you climb out of the dugout and kick some dirt in the direction of the umpire's shoes...then see some calls start going your way.
Other times it can be the best way to fire up your team.
 
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bustedknee said:
Isn't this what its all about? Teaching respect?

Sometimes you climb out of the dugout and kick some dirt in the direction of the umpire's shoes...then see some calls start going your way.
Other times it can be the best way to fire up your team.
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What you mention is very prevalent in basketball and football as well. Gene Keady and Bobby Knight made careers on bench jockeying, and obviously recruited great players and won a ton of games, conference titles and national titles. Officials get to a point where it's easier not to hear a coach blow his stack so they start giving them calls. No official would ever admit it but it's simply human nature. In tennis McEnroe bullied his opponents and the chair officials all the time just with his antics and mouth. Billy Martin in baseball, Earl Weaver, and many more.

I'm neither defending nor slamming Dale Earnhardt but I thought it was a good story and if true, it says a lot about him and how people reacted to him. The follow-up is that Waltrip didn't end up throwing down with Earnhardt and basically went on his way after the conversation and this is a guy in DW who was a star in the game. It's compelling stuff.
 
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