DW retiring

lotstodo

lotstodo

aka "The Jackal"
Daryl Waltrip will be retiring after Fox's last Nascar broadcast in June. Hard to believe that he has been in the booth since 2001. I remember when he was the young hotshot just coming up through the ranks in racing, and how happy he was finally winning Daytona toward the end of his career.

I'll miss old DW even though I don't catch many races now.
 
Yeah.... like K-Dawg, I don't know who this DW fella is.


However, I think we can all agree that the greatest stock car driver of all time is Jean Girard.
 
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MudFlap said:
Yeah.... like K-Dawg, I don't know who this DW fella is.


However, I think we can all agree that the greatest stock car driver of all time is Jean Girard.
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Haha.

I know who he is, I just don't care for Nascar.

But that's just me.
 
DW was a little silly in the booth and they have been grooming younger racers for some time. DW was a loud, abrasive sometimes whiny driver. Having said that he won three championships in an era of real drivers driving real cars. He raced Petty, Earnhart, Pearson, Allison (all of them), Yarbourough, Baker, Gant, Parsons, Foyt, Jarrett (both), Martin, Labonte (both) and countless others. He won 12 races a couple of times in a single season. He was the master of Bristol Motor Speedway on the old configuration/concrete when stock cars did not have power steering. I am not his biggest fan but he deserves respect as a hell of a wheel man and I damn sure give him that. I would take him in the seat in his prime against anybody racing today. By the way I will take David Pearson in his prime in the seat against anybody ever including Petty or Earnhart.
 
Stonewall said:
DW was a little silly in the booth and they have been grooming younger racers for some time. DW was a loud, abrasive sometimes whiny driver. Having said that he won three championships in an era of real drivers driving real cars. He raced Petty, Earnhart, Pearson, Allison (all of them), Yarbourough, Baker, Gant, Parsons, Foyt, Jarrett (both), Martin, Labonte (both) and countless others. He won 12 races a couple of times in a single season. He was the master of Bristol Motor Speedway on the old configuration/concrete when stock cars did not have power steering. I am not his biggest fan but he deserves respect as a hell of a wheel man and I damn sure give him that. I would take him in the seat in his prime against anybody racing today. By the way I will take David Pearson in his prime in the seat against anybody ever including Petty or Earnhart.
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Wood Bros and Pearson was a hard combo to beat. He could float a car around a super speedway with maybe one wheel at a time touching the track in an era when aerodynamics were all about pushing a sheet of plywood through the air. He was more pilot than driver. I've never seen anything like it. Earnhardt Sr was good, but his cars were much better also.
 
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