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Nobody has commented on DW's failure to qualify in the Kroeger 250, highly touted as his "Last Race Ever".
 
I made a comment on the RB. Looks like Ole DW. Is gonna have to pick our another race to be his last one, :D
 
As far as I'm concerned, DW ran his last race about 5 years ago.......and it was a good thing too!! :)
 
DE_Wrangler_2 said:
As far as I'm concerned, DW ran his last race about 5 years ago.......and it was a good thing too!! :)
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You got THAT right DEW and I just hope that the buffoon doesn't end up with any more air time about this than he aready has.
 
DW didn't qualify. Only one thing to say. HEHEHEHEHE!!!!
 
I'm sorry he didn't make it. And it's not that he didn't run fast enough. But he has nothing left to prove. One of the greatest careers in the sport.
 
its alwayies good to git a menace off the tracck, at least he cant mess up the race like he does the talkin part lol :growl:
 
Oh sure. With 3 Cup championships and 84 Cup wins, he sure is a candidate to mess up a race.

None of the other guys in the race today could ever come close to that record. Not even in their wildest dreams
 
bumpzter said:
I'm sorry he didn't make it. And it's not that he didn't run fast enough. But he has nothing left to prove. One of the greatest careers in the sport.
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I second that. I was looking forward to seeing him race.
 
Wow, slamming and calling one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR a buffoon? Like its already been said, these younger guys coming up now won't come close to what he has accomplished.

If you don't like to hear him, turn your TV down and listen to MRN.
 
You can't take away DW's record of 84 wins and 3 Cup titles........that's in the history books and will always rank high as a record. But, my problem with Darrell Waltrip is that those statistics were recorded quite a few years ago and he hasn't been even mediocre for going on 10 years. He could have maintained my respect had he retired a few years earlier than he did with a little more dignity..........I mean gotten out of the car/truck and stayed out. He's lost his edge and really just embarrasses himself every time he tries "show them young-uns how it's done"...........well, I guess it doesn't embarrass him, but it should. The same goes for his broadcasting.........he was fun the first couple of years but he's really stale now. He's nothing but a showboat and it gets old after a while.

As far as I'm concerned he needs to either get back to his earlier competition level (which I doubt he can do) or get out of the races completely. Same with his broadcasting.......come up with something new once in a while or get out of the booth. He's obnoxious. I've been a fan of his in the past, but since he lost his edge and refuses to let go, he has lost me. It's hard to maintain respect for someone who doesn't know when it's time to shut up and move into the background with dignity.
 
I appreciate what he did for the sport. He was a good racer and a good champion. As DEW said, he hung around too long, and made himself look ridiculous.

He keeps telling the same stories, and keeps saying "when I was racing", and has lost touch. His racing was done in an earlier time that really doesn't have much relevence today. I actually find myself embarrassed for DW when he gets to rambling. While I could listen to his stories for hours, during a race is not the time.

Again, he contibuted so much, but now it's time to get off the stage. I think Richard Petty set the standard --- do your farewell tour, and retire. I get the feeling that DW just can't let go.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
I appreciate what he did for the sport. He was a good racer and a good champion. As DEW said, he hung around too long, and made himself look ridiculous.

He keeps telling the same stories, and keeps saying "when I was racing", and has lost touch. His racing was done in an earlier time that really doesn't have much relevence today. I actually find myself embarrassed for DW when he gets to rambling. While I could listen to his stories for hours, during a race is not the time.

Again, he contibuted so much, but now it's time to get off the stage. I think Richard Petty set the standard --- do your farewell tour, and retire. I get the feeling that DW just can't let go.
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I have to agree with you and DEW. DW did the same thing as Richard Petty. He waited to long to retire. But Richard Petty was smart enought to stay in the back ground and just try to run race teams. That is what DW should have done instead of getting behind a Mic. and making himself look silly. :D
 
i don't claim to think DW is a gift to commentators, but I do belive he is a good one and is getting better, I'd rather listen to him than Benny Parsons.
 
I'm the opposite. I'd much rather listen to a commentator who might make a few mistaken comments about who's in what car or what position they may or may not be racing for than a braggart who claims to know all and has an enhanced story to go along with it. To each their own, I guess.

I'll take Benny any day, thanks. :)
 
I could give two of the local drunks a couple bottles of cheap wine and they'd do a better job commentating a race than Larry and Mo. At LEAST have some grasp of english if you're going to be a commentator and it wouldn't hurt for Waltrip to leave his ego at home.
 
I like all the 'expert' commentators. Guess maybe it's because I respect so much what they did behind the wheel. Like Buddy Baker, Neil Bonnett, Ned Jarret, BP and DW.
None are polished professional announcers, but damn, they know what they are talking about. And if they occasionally make dumb comments, so what?

Sometimes we have the pleasure of listening to others like Rusty or Jeff Burton or Johnny Benson as guest commentators at Bush races. That always adds so much to the races. But that's just my opinion.

Now as to the former crew chiefs, I hold my comments. :p
 
DW doesn't know #$%^ when it comes to today's cars and Nascar. He talks about stuff like it's the same as when he was a champion. It's not! His day was just the beginning of big time racing. Just 1 step above the backyard mechanic dragging the car to the truck behind the family station wagon.

Everything else he talks about revolves around HIS fear or racing. Safer barriers, etc. Listen to him sometime and you can hear the FEAR in his voice. He could never race with these guys on a bigger track.

Larry Mac and the others are also HAS-BEEN's. If they weren't they'd be crew chiefing still. They are not.

Benny is an old guy, and his day of racing was WAY back when but at least he has a better understanding of what is currently going on. He talks with the teams before the race, etc. So, he may be far removed from actually driving, but he still keeps on top of the sport. DW sometimes says stuff that is WRONG with regards to setups, etc. He is clueless and will run his mouth even if he doesn't know anything about the subject.

DW was a good driver in his day. That day past. He can be mildly entertaining as a commentator but he gets old.
 
dang, reading all this bashing made me forget what i was goin to say.

But as for him hanging around to long, Racing is in your blood..you cant just stop racing one year. i dont think he hung around tolong, if he had good cars i think he still could of won, same with schrader hard to win when ya just got crap to drive.
 
Lap3Forever said:
dang, reading all this bashing made me forget what i was goin to say.

But as for him hanging around to long, Racing is in your blood..you cant just stop racing one year. i dont think he hung around tolong, if he had good cars i think he still could of won, same with schrader hard to win when ya just got crap to drive.
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You put yourself in the situition to drive crap cars.
 
zevious said:
DW was a good driver in his day. That day past.
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I get so sick and tired when people imply that in the old days it was easier to be a good driver. The Mario Andrettis and A.J. Foyds and Richard Pettys and Darrell Waltrips and a host of others were just as talented and fierce competitors as the Gordons and Stewarts and Newmans of today. Only the equipment has changed. The skill and guts have not.

So don't tell me that past champions had it easy then and are 'has been's'. Once a champion, always a champion.
 
I dont want to see either of them. Dw is constantly making up words, and sayings to explain things and it makes him look iidiotic. Not to mention his stories which dont relate much to todays nascar. He was a good driver in his time, and needs to just leave it at that. Parsons isnt much better, I think the man is senile. THe last few seasons when watching races on nbc, I have seen him mistake car #s and/or driver names. I think I remember at one race he did it more then 3 times (I.E there goes bobby labonte in the 15 car. Todd bodine in the 22 spins out).
 
bumpzter said:
I get so sick and tired when people imply that in the old days it was easier to be a good driver. The Mario Andrettis and A.J. Foyds and Richard Pettys and Darrell Waltrips and a host of others were just as talented and fierce competitors as the Gordons and Stewarts and Newmans of today. Only the equipment has changed. The skill and guts have not.

So don't tell me that past champions had it easy then and are 'has been's'. Once a champion, always a champion.
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No there is a big diffrence. In years past only a few drivers had top tier equipment and could compete for the win each week. In todays nascar there are 10+- (maybe a lil less,maybe a lil more), that can compete for the win every week.
 
So who remembers beidie from TR? I will give odds that it's the same "know-it-all"
 
smack500 said:
No there is a big difference.
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The cream rises to the top no matter how big the container is.

A champion racer is champion racer. Champion = best in class.
 
So if a driver wins a championship going against 5 previous cup winners, he is just as good as a driver who wins a championship racing against 1 other driver who has won a cup?

A better example may be. If driver A won a championship going against jeff gordon,Dale Earnhardt Sr, and richard petty. While driver B won a championship going against robby gordon, todd bodine, bobby hamilton. You would think driver B is just as good as driver A?
 
Good question Smack but it ain't quite that easy! :) Your previous post said it best about a few top tier teams more or less skunking the rest of the field and competing for the titles among 3 to 5 drivers each year. And it's true that there are a dozen or even more teams running today that can and do compete for the same title each year. It's not a matter of how much guts any driver has or how skilled he is at driving..........that only comes into play when they compete in equal equipment. And today the teams are much more equal and the competition level is very much higher than it was in the 80's. That's why you won't see anyone even coming close to Petty and Earnhardt's record of seven Championships in a lifetime. Gordon might get one more but he won't get three..........and damned sure won't get four more.

Had Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt had to race with the teams the drivers of today have to race with neither one of them would be claiming 7 titles either.

But, back to DW..........he needs to let go of yesterday and move into today. NASCAR is in no way the same as it was when he was driving and winning. It just left him in the dust. :D
 
kat2220 said:
So who remembers beidie from TR? I will give odds that it's the same "know-it-all"
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You mean bedie or bedie's mom, or bedies sister or bedies girlfriend and the list goes on and on. Sure reads like them.
 
smack500 said:
A better example may be. If driver A won a championship going against jeff gordon,Dale Earnhardt Sr, and richard petty. While driver B won a championship going against robby gordon, todd bodine, bobby hamilton. You would think driver B is just as good as driver A?
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Aha. Got you. You're mixing up the old with the new. Why? Are you implying that Richard Petty is as good as Jeff Gordon? That sure is not what you said earlier. :)
Richard and DW had no competition. Remember? But Gordon has plenty. :D

Anyway. Let's agree to disagree, OK? I won't change your mind and you won't change mine. But both of us will continue to enjoy racing.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
I appreciate what he did for the sport. He was a good racer and a good champion. As DEW said, he hung around too long, and made himself look ridiculous.

He keeps telling the same stories, and keeps saying "when I was racing", and has lost touch. His racing was done in an earlier time that really doesn't have much relevence today. I actually find myself embarrassed for DW when he gets to rambling. While I could listen to his stories for hours, during a race is not the time.

Again, he contibuted so much, but now it's time to get off the stage. I think Richard Petty set the standard --- do your farewell tour, and retire. I get the feeling that DW just can't let go.
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i totaly agree DW embarrasses me everytime he opens his mouth
 
Eagle1 said:
You mean bedie or bedie's mom, or bedies sister or bedies girlfriend and the list goes on and on. Sure reads like them.
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Sure does! HI Bedie------you're caught again! :D
 
bumpzter said:
Oh sure. With 3 Cup championships and 84 Cup wins, he sure is a candidate to mess up a race.

None of the other guys in the race today could ever come close to that record. Not even in their wildest dreams
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I agree! Ya gotta respect what D W as got done! The last chance anyone might have to catch up with him may be Jeffy!
Also like to add that his mouth does not bother me one little bit. He speaks his heart every minute.. What more can we ask of anyone?
Betsy ;)
 
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