Darrell Waltrip funny Interview (Charlotte 1998)

[1IIIIIIIIII1]

THOSE GUYS LAUGHED AND JOKED AROUND......NOW THESE YOUNG PUNKS ALL WANT TO ACT LIKE ROOSTERS WITH RABIES FIGHTIN AND CUSSIN AND CLAWIN AT EACH OTHER.

[woody0900]

Darrell came into the restaurant I used to work at quite often. He's got a sense of humor like you wouldn't believe and he's a nice guy.

[ShyteKreek46]

I wonder how may cars were in the field when Fonty won. Back then they would have as many as 60 cars on the track.

[CouchManTom]

@ShyteKreek46 There were total 49 starting positions in the 1953 Raleigh 300 they're referring to at the Raleigh Speedway. I think the largest field size back in that day could reach up to 75 cars depending on the track size.

[AlYassou3Rabbi]

Reminds me of Carl Edwards.  Same mannerisms and interview style.

[brin3535]

@AlYassou3Rabbi It's crazy that you say that because I was just thinking the same thing.

[dansing763]

Derrick Cope ON THE POLE?????

[jrsub3]

@dansing763 Did you know he actually won TWO races in 1990 (also got the spring race in Dover).

My head almost blew up. I wish more random-ass drivers stumbled into major wins.

[tylersmmith07]

@dansing763 Everybody else must have gotten a flat tire.

[mevfd17]

Wow this is old race that was on TBS!!!

[nr2003kid]

You don't see drivers having fun like this anymore.

[Mcdnldmchl]

Darrell Waltrip is one hell of a funny guy to listen to.

[nascarjohnsonfan48]

lol! :)

[nickdolin24]

Ol' Waltrip... gift of gab right there...

[spookeddudedevito]

i met darrell waltrip today he is the coolest guy, we were workin at his house layin carpet and he gave all of us autographed pictures and a really good tip, he didn't have to do that but it really says a lot about him no one should have any bad words to say about darell waltrip, period. he is the truth out here on us.

[MsFuckknuckles]

ernie irvan not irwan

[airjordanxiv]

Ah yes, when drivers had personality and weren't corporate pitchmen. The good ole days indeed!

[backlinelover]

too bad hes the worst net work bitch goin these days shit I mean between ouu it wasn't Michale's foult, or jrs the best and lets not forget daicas great lines, Im not sure were nascars money starts and DWs brain begins. This is when he was still pure, I liked him then.

[JeffGORDON2426]

ya dont see funny interviews like that these days.Now its "well we run good all day long this dupont,pepsi,nat'l guard,amp,mobile1,cheeto's,vas­aline, john deer m&ms,colgate,afflac,budweiser,­jc penny toyota was strong all day'.Thats an interview these days.They gotta read the fucken car THEN talk about there day.I miss old nascar.Just hard racing hardly any advertising.Those days R dead and an gone

[eindatadog01]

You hit the nail on the head with the sponsor comment. Isn't enough that the sponsors' names are plastered all over the cars, driver's suits, and the racetracks?

[Schwackin502]

Couldnt agree more..

[negtype13]

Yep....fuckin' Nextel...all about the GREEN!!

And I ain't talkin about the flag!

[RDarth]

The drivers can still have personality, but in this rough economy they should be thankful these companies stick around.

[20alphabet]

Same with ALL sports interviews. Like mad-libs with blanks for the sponsors' names.

[nickforthetitle]

@JeffGORDON2426 You cannot be more right...

[pck3]

@JeffGORDON2426 Wow yeah your right, never see this anymore...

[backlinelover]

@JeffGORDON2426 they are under contract not to by nascar been that way for awhile

[Honda16Kelly]

@JeffGORDON2426 he made the whole beginning of the interview about his main sponsor..

[KCity14Podolak]

@JeffGORDON2426 I couldn't agree with you anymore. Laughed my ass off at all the sponsors you came up with. Although you forgot about 400 more cuz that's NASCAR (now a days)

[dw1985]

@JeffGORDON2426 hit the nail on the head there....nascar is terrible right now!!

[APontiacof455cubes]

@JeffGORDON2426 All you old time fans are so hard on modern nascar. It still is the best sport and only thing worth watchin on TV these days along with NHRA. Yea there's more advertising and rules than 20 years ago but so what? It's still stock car racing and there's lots of good racing to be seen. If all the advertising upsets you, there's Nationwide and the Truck series that carry far less big sponsors.

[MurphyMonster]

@APontiacof455cubes Either you never watched NASCAR 10 years ago or you are insane.

[APontiacof455cubes]

@MurphyMonster One thing that has improved is the camera angles and coverage of the whole track. Look at footage from 20 years ago and it sucks compared to what you see today. I just got into NASCAR and I almost prefer the Truck and nationwide series over the CUP series because I feel the CUP series is sometimes rigged.

[tryithere]

@APontiacof455cubes You're crazy rigger.

[APontiacof455cubes]

@tryithere Didnt say it is, but it sure seems like it considering Jr always somehow makes the Chase. Jr is a joke! Jr Nation.....yea right. Anyone whos a Jr fan isnt a true nascar fan

[SouthernGuy8503]

@APontiacof455cubes He always did? Hmm well seems like he missed it in '05, '07, 09 and '10. So he's only made half of the Chases, that's hardly all of them. JR is just one of those drivers that have a good year and then a bad year. He's not the only one. Also a JR fan not a true fan? I've been a NASCAR fan since the early 90s (born in '85). Also who are you to tell people who to root for? Maybe if you grew up you wouldn't still be needing a pacifier.

[SouthernGuy8503]

@APontiacof455cubes Lastly, you said you just got into NASCAR, so who the hell are you to say who's a true fan and who isn't? I don't think a new fan is less important, but you saying what you said would be like a new guy at a job trying to tell someone that's been there for 20 years how to do something.

[APontiacof455cubes]

@SouthernGuy8503 touche lol. i just hate how Jr is just riding the coat tails of his father. Jr hasnt won a championship and hasnt won in two years. I know he had some wins in the early to mid 2000's but come on, he's past his prime!

[SouthernGuy8503]

@APontiacof455cubes How is he riding his dad's coat tails? JR had to work for everything he has. All his dad did was give him a show in his Nationwide (was Busch) Series car. He then won the Busch Championship his rookie year and the very next year. His main problem in Cup has been inconsistency. One year he could do great, next year not even finish in top 15 in points. Now with Steve LaTarte he can be. He just needed the right crew chief.

[SouthernGuy8503]

@APontiacof455cubes JR went from not having a chance for the Chase for 2 straight years to making the Chase by points this year. He also is down to earth and will admit when he screws up. Not a lot of drivers now adays will do that. He also doesn't whine and cry like some do. I know he's a driver that can be in the Chase every year, now he has a Chase crew chief. JR might have gotten a lot of fans form his dad, but they stayed because of how JR is personality wise.

[SouthernGuy8503]

@APontiacof455cubes How the hell do you get 43 teams and hundreds of people to agree to rig a race? Do you realize how hard it would be to rig races? Go do your homework because you sound like you're not old enough to even have a license.

[SouthernGuy8503]

@JeffGORDON2426 Well JR, Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick and a couple others still do funny interviews sometimes. But, the reason they say all of their sponsors all of the time is because it's in their contracts. So don't blame NASCAR or the drivers for that. Lastly, that wasn't that long ago and the first thing DW said was a sponsor plug or did you not see Tobasco all over his firesuit and car.

[99boyz]

thats was great

[BornInEastLos]

Great to see Ernie Irvan. He was a great driver. Career cut way too short.

[tubeyou443]

That Tabasco car was awesome!!!

[JoeytheHDK]

I remember this. Waltrip was hilarious when being interviewed. But yeah, they had water seepage on the backstraightaway, some kind of sewage leak or something, I don't know.

[bubbleblower420]

yea but because of charlotte it was built close fagget

[toby725717]

IT SHOULD BE , ""Darrell Waltrip funny Interview (CONCORD 1998) ""THE TRACK IS NOT IN CHARLOTTE

[martinracn06]

hey dip shit look at the wall it says Charlotte

[snowddoogg]

poor toby he must of thought it was lowes which is the same track wow now you know there are people with brains

[martinracn06]

i know its in Concord but its Charlotte just like Chicagoland speedway is in Joliet illinois nott chicago

[Schwackin502]

Take a look at the back setting.. ford grandstands are not there.. turn 1 boxs arent there yet.. Just amazing how the landscape has changed

[99blueoval]

i wonder why the red flag is out

[srs1804]

If I remember right there was water seepage on the backstretch

[cnycarnut]

ok sk8board ill lay it out forya. Kyle Busch sucks not because hes opinionated or outspoken. Its because his opinions are wrong! he talks as if he is a 4 time champion and everyone should listen to him. Granted he wins alot, but for someone who wins ALL THE TIME dont you think he whines alot instead of praising his crew the other drivers and so on? Hes got a piss poor attitude and it needs to change or he'll be like waltrip in the 80s everyone hating him and taking yrs to fix it

[braves15]

Not exactly the greatest sponsor endorsement in the world by DW...lol.

[vol5198]

Very true, but if you knew anything about the details of that whole Tabasco deal and what was going on at the time you'd realize that more than likely he didn't care all that much!

[AlaskanJim]

The 70s and 80s were Nascar's best years. It's so bland now, god forbid a driver should have an opinion. Don't say any cuss words or you'll lose 25 championship points not to mention the fines.

[Sk8BoardTrucker]

America has been pussyfied! kyle bush is outspoken and opinionated but everyone hates him for some reason

[PepsiLovinRacer24]

look at the grandstands. there tiny

[Budsmoker72]

this is great stuff, ty for posting it

[TopRamenKickAss]

nascar was so much better back then.

[KKFan9]

Back in the day when NASCAR drivers were not "yes" men. Thats why.

[43racer43]

ha your sooo rite and nowadays they cant step at all outa line or they get fined and thats garbage

[berdoofool]

DW has always been one of my favorites

[CASEYMEARS5]

shit dw is funny erin is a fucken pussy

[wndale21]

Erin?

[jdonovan90]

ahh.. the good old days.

[bcarter55]

Derrick Cope sitting on the pole... Wow! Those were the days!

[4Tracer]

Good times... Good times...

[hms4ever]

I remember this race the red flag was out because a water mane broke just outside the backstretch and water was gushing over the wall like crazy.

[antifaschiat13]

why there was the red flag out???... graet interview!!!XD

[terrijane61]

lol! Putting Tabasco sauce on his eggs gave him the "scoots".  LMAO!! NEVER eat that kind of food before a race! XD!

[jamespic]

Darrel Waltrip & Steve Byrnes, Those Two Are Familiar From NASCAR On FOX!!!!!

[Nascar24ms]

@jamespic and jeff hammond

[Harvickfan04]

ernie should of killed jeff whlie he had the chance. lol

[Pfeil4]

hell ya!!

[VitaminWaterFreak21]

hahaha; i love DW, he's freakin hilarious. and always has a great attitude.!

[Banger82]

I love the DW "a few more laps we had them" comments when he was usually running 23rd... Never failed

[shelby67grl]

haha what a clever way to throw in the name of his sponsor! i love dw!

[DaddyYankee42]

ahhh he is drunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jk

[19duhart]

dw is the best

[DaddyYankee42]

no one better then BIG E, he is second

[XRage21]

Why the heck was he driving that car?

[andypage9]

that was the year Tim Beverly (Tyler Jet) bought Darrell's team and "merged" it with another team (driven originally by Todd Bodine).Bodine got the boot and D.W. was put back in his own cars with Tabasco as sponsor.

[vol5198]

Mostly true, accept for the fact that Bodine was let go before the "merger" without Tabasco's knowledge. Pretty sure anyway. That Tabasco team, which was called ISM Racing and was owned by Bob Hancher, was in trouble almost from the get go. After the merger, Waltrip's first race with the Tyler Jet Motorsports/#35 Tobasco was the Brickyard 400 and he finished in the top 15 in a Chevy. Tobasco forced them to go back to Pontiacs immediately like the ISM team was running due to marketing reasons

[thebarryo]

check out D.W. and Larry Mac get into it good at Bristol this past weekend at "John Cena's NASCAR debut" here on youtube

[haidcod]

What race was this?

[Temiree]

*points to title*

[haidcod]

Was it the coke 600 or the 500

[AJ1964]

That wasn't Coke. MBNA? Don't remember.

[gadgefan48]

UAW-GM Quality 500 in 1998.

[DonLduk]

@haidcod

this was the 500 in october. the red flag was because of a broken water pipe in the backstraight. I was watching this on the TBS superstation

[cmjokinen]

Hahaha... so funny.

[4DECO1]

LOL. What a character!

[nascarfontana]

i would love to meet DW someday

[pathicks28]

theres no character guys anymore

[jmoney11]

DW is so cool

[Momoftwinsplus1]

LOL Ernie Irvin is too funny as well. I miss him

[jmoney11]

spencer's gay

[12kevmo17]

DW was one of the best drivers the sport had seen, and now hes one of the better analysist/ announcers in the series, alot better than anyone on nbc

[dalejrgamer]

Dallenbach fails as a commentator in NASCAR...best fit in Champcar/off road racing, but not in NASCAR.

[Momoftwinsplus1]

Wally is ok, but really lakes the passion for annoucning and for the sport in my opininon and it shows. DW beats him hands down.

[O5fan]

Was that him in the background?

[stormchaser34869]

fuck u. ur just blabbering retarded shit. get off the site bitch

[Momoftwinsplus1]

I couldn't have said it better myself. LOL love this interview, DW is was a great driver, is an awesome announcer and seems like a geninuely nice guy.

[xsilverstudx]

yeah I beg to differ also. His last 5 years did indeed suck but the DW I remember was as good as Dale Sr!

[Erndeintro]

He ran pretty good when he drove the 1 car. And he had good runs every now and then in the 17 (Atlanta - 95), 35 (Lowe's), and 66 (Indy).

[vol5198]

There's a big gap there between Atlanta '95 and the race in this video in 1998. He had some good runs in 1997 during his 25th Anniversary year. But, for the most part you are right. For the most part, Darrell was never the same after that hard crash in The Winston in 1995 where Earnhardt took him and himself out.

[JBird30761]

LOL! Hilarious! DW is the man!

[ramblnman24]

good vid! that guy is hilarious!

[astorian31]

Darrel Waltrip was a great driver. Not so good of an announcer.

[jrfan07]

i beg to differ, but we all have our opinions

[bandman232]

Heh! DW has to go have some R and R! lol

[TripleHomicide]

Ha ha ha. Darrell Waltrip is awesome!

[meatmarket]

Jeeze, Derrike Cope was fat back then!

Waltrip DNQ'd for the race a year earlier, so it would have been neat to see him this win, especially in the infamous Tabasco crappers. Where was he running when this interview was done?

Incidently, it wasn't water seeping out on the track. It was raw sewage. Mmmm...raw sewage...

[JMFellenbaum]

No, I think right after the red flag he blew an oil line and had to go behind the wall for repairs. Was too bad, he was hooked up that day on the high line.

[carlEfan99]

did he win?

[mustang6172]

Hell no. His last win was in 1992.

Mark Martin won this race.

[ladyblah]

Oh my gosh, this is hilarious!

[Funky777]

haha I was watching this live

[perrybdk03]

Oh man I didn't remember this interview LOL! Yeah they had to red flag this race for like 45 minutes. A water main broke under the backstretch grandstands. Niagara Falls came down the track from under the outside wall.

[braandpantiesmatch]

DW in Basthroom "Boogity Boogity Boogity!"

[Tret64]

Darrell Waltrip is SO funny

[reds44dunn]

why was there a red flag

[AJ1964]

Water was flowing on track.

[coolconman1]

sewage

[piperman56]

@AJ1964 If I remember right, that wasn't just water running across the track. Wasn't that the year that a sewer on the backstretch overflowed on the track.

[jestoon425]

@AJ1964 was this "water" From DW's Car?

[DixieGurl333]

Oh boy DW TMI. lol