Dale Jarrett
Dale Jarrett
Dale Arnold Jarrettis a former American race car driver and current sports commentator known for winning the Daytona 500 three timesand winning the NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship in 1999. He is the son of 2-time Grand National Champion Ned Jarrett, younger brother of Glenn Jarrett, father of former driver Jason Jarrett, and cousin of Todd Jarrett. In 2007, Jarrett joined the ESPN/ABC broadcasting team as an announcer in select Nationwide Series races. In 2008, after retiring from driving following...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth26 November 1956
CityConover, NC
This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase. We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.
This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase, ... We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.
I wasn't a lap down and, as we've seen, a lot of these races end under 'green-white-checkered,' and there's no free pass in the last 10 laps. I've got to try to stay in front of the leader to try to make sure I give myself a chance to earn as many points as I possibly can.
I don't know how he's blaming me. Jeff came up. He's got to know that someone else is there, too.
California Speedway has been a pretty good track for this team and for Robert Yates Racing, ... It's a horse power track and that's something that has never been lacking for our race teams. California is one of the tracks where we ran decent this year. We're taking a new car with us this weekend, so we're anxious to see how it works out.
Everywhere I've been people have talked about what an exciting race it was.
I'm extremely happy. That's actually faster than I thought I could go with this car.
If you're going to continue to do that, eventually you're going to wreck. Ultimately we know our job is to go out here and race, but that doesn't have to include running into each other every single lap.
The first couple times we raced there it was pretty tough, because it was a one-groove track. It's obviously come a long way.
It's a small piece of real estate to begin with and over the years that's become a smaller piece of real estate, and we all want that same piece. Trying to maintain the piece for yourself or keep someone from taking it is difficult.
For as long as I can remember, we spent the Labor Day weekend at Darlington (S.C.).
I'm going to fire him for next week and then he's going to come back at Charlotte too,
Hopefully, in these next nine races we can see some good things that are going to happen for the entire organization. That's what all this was done for.
It accelerated everything a hundred-fold. There are things that we have put into place today that we'd still just be considering, but that made us realize that we couldn't afford to have that happen again.