Bill Davis details joining up with Ward Burton, Dodge’s entry into the sport, Dodge having an issue with Bill Davis’ Truck team running Toyotas while the Cup team fielded Dodges, how his team carried on, his thoughts on whether Dodge will return, and Ward’s departure, while Dale Jr. and Mike react.
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Is this the same Bill Davis who let Jeff Gordon go…………..didn't see any potential.
Dodge qualified 1-2-3 at Daytona and also won one of the qualifying races.
All 10 Dodge's qualified for Daytona…………….NO engine block failures ever.
Gave Toyota one of our engines which they immediately copied.
Got sued and lost big time.
By the way I was one of the Dodge people who worked on the engine program. Two of us worked on the original race group engines for the Petty's back in the day. Yep…………..no experience there.
Poor old Bill…………..looks like dementia has kicked in.
The Dodge deal with Bill was strange too as they refused to help the BD Busch team so Scott Wimmer drove factory Pontiacs and Chevrolets with Dodge's permission in 2002-2003.
Shoulda stayed with Pontiac
Bill Davis gave me $70K when one of his truck drivers exited the freeway and hit me doing 60 while I was sitting at a stoplight .
The biggest problem with Dodge is Chrysler corporation decided to go cup racing and started things in motion with the truck series and Busch, then mercedes bought them, there was no merger, and mercedes management got involved and didn't really care about naSCar because all Mercedes cares about is f1.
Talk about a case of does the cat have your tongue, I give Jr a lot of credit for this, he really had to work to pry the answers out of Bill Davis. And I’m not taking shots at Bill Davis, maybe he’s just a man of few words
Get this man an oxygen tank.
I kinda thought that Bill was holding back, and he's definitely not the guy to (Bad Mouth) people. Kind of a struggle to get him to open up about everything.
I always like and comment. You never comment back Jr. I've actually tried to contact you a few times. You never respond or return my calls or emails… SO, here's another like and comment to boost the rating for your channel…
W Burton certainly doesnt seem like that kind of a diva or hard to work with kind of person. Furthest thing from it. He stayed a long time and probably lost out on a lot of money moving on to another team.
Great show guys but how do I get one of those Butch Lindley t-shirts? That is so cool!
Good video, but I felt like Dale shut down Mike a bit there. I think Mike was going to lead it toward some different line of questioning.
Can we submit ideas for discussion topics for a future podcast? If so, how?
They needed to talk about engine design! Look at toyota v8 and the mopar. Made me say hmmm. They had No pushrod mtr till they copied mopar!
DODGE was treated like cr-p by nascrolet. They were saddled by the SCREWED UP BY NASCAR CHARGER NOSE, which was not aerodynamically sound, then the fuel inj. System that nascar made them use was slower and VERY UNRELIABLE ( Hendricks SHITROLLING, ON THE OTHER HAND GOT THEIR F.I. FROM NASCAR 1YEAR BEFORE DODGE OR FORD, with more h.p. and more reliability. — NASCROLET'S EXTREME BIAS/FAVORITISM) Dodge won a driver's champ. – but NOT ANOTHER MFG. CHAMP. EVER.(SHITROLLING AND NASCROLET ARRANGED CHEVY/GM COMPLETE SUPERIORITY- NASCAR CONTROLS EVERYTHING, INCLUDING EACH ENGINES H.P., AERODYNAMICS AFFECTING PERF. AND ALWAYS FAVORING SHITROLLING, THEN ALWAYS MAKES CHEVY'S COMPETITION NON COMPETITIVE — JUST LOOK AT THE WIN HISTORY.
So glad Gordon left this team for Hendrick
Bill Davis had about as much manufacturer loyalty as ThorSport, which is to say none at all
Ward Burton was my favourite driver at the time. I came over from the UK to watch a race at Darlington and I was lucky to meet Ward. He signed my programme. Man I loved that CAT 22.
Bill Davis was a crook
This is like pulling teeth. Jr. Keeps opening doors with questions, it seems like Mr. Davis keeps his thoughts and answers very short to the point. Would like to hear the details.
MoPar or No Car! where are my Dodges at?
I didn't realize Dodge was so shitty as a company. Wow.
People forget that Toyota struggled big time when it entered cup in 2007. Red Bull and MWR missed a lot of races. There was no charter system and these teams had no owners points to fall back on. Dale Jarret brought over UPS Sponsorship from Yates and it turned into a fiasco.
Dodge went to crap in the 80s and have never recovered, everything they have made since then has been junk. Today Dodge is the worst vehicle on the street, the stuff just wont last and falls apart
I just said that 😂😅
I get a kick out of Jr. treating Mike like a dummy. 😂
Dodge went out of Nascar in a blaze of glory by winning a Championship in its last year of competition with Penske/Kesolowski
I listrned to every Ward Burton interview just to hear him say Caterpillar Dodge in his unique voice
I thought Ward was BDR's best driver. Had Wimmer just waited a bit longer and had not burned the bridge with Dodge, that could have been a championship team