If DEI equipment was soooooo bad, how the heck did Michael Waltrip pick up 4 wins??

Question

You cant convince me that he is a great driver...is this just another excuse by Jr nation to explain why Jr isnt the all time winningest driver or what? At least tell me how Mikey won some races.

Answer 1

Theresa doesn't have a clue she's slowly running the co. into the ground

Answer 2

Dale Earnhardt Inc Rules!!! I don't know why people hate on DEI. That is the best team ever. I may be the only loyal DEI fan out there but h**l I love DEI. DEI has a bunch of win from Dale Jr Steve Park and Michael Waltrip. People don't realise that they are a good team.

Answer 3

When did he win these races.... and Junior won just as many as him plus more.  Your question is based on Junior hatred.

Answer 4

durka durka....

..now i have to agree that DEI equipment did suck last year....JR's car blew up every other race...however...i've seen junior-ites use this excuse...which shouldn't really BE an excuse,  since DEI wasn't the worse equipment

Isn't Generation Kill the dopest mini-series ever??

"as the great warrior poet Ice Cube once said, 'if a day does not require my AK, it is good"

Answer 5

Jr Nation can't accept the fact that DEI is not a bad team.

Answer 6

DEI's equipment wasn't bad last year, their engine program was. Junior alone had 7 or 8 engine failures, and he was running well in most of those races at the time of the failure.

Answer 7

How bad could it have possibly have been? 2004 Jr. had six wins in that equipment. That's more than what he has in HMS equipment this season, unless he picks up five more wins. (which if he is, he might want to start, now-ish)

But I seem to recall alot of theories going around about faulty DEI equipment.

Then it was sabotage by his step-mother.

Now it's Tony Eury Jr.

I don't think their equipment is as bad as some are making it out to be.

Answer 8

At the time, DEI was the team to beat on superspeedways.

All 4 races won by Mikey were on superspeedways, Daytona and Talladega.

Answer 9

DEI's equipment is that bad. Michael waltrip racing just makes DEI look good. how is 4 wins an accomplishment? and DEI's equipment really is that bad. just ask DW.

Jr. made DEI look way better than it is. Michael Waltrip with 4 wins, Regan Smith with 0, Mark Martin with 0 (while he's there), Truex with only 1 friggin win. Menard with 0 friggin wins. Or is just a coincidence that last year junior couldn't do c**p and this year he's 2nd?

Answer 10

At the time DEI's plate cars were two steps ahead of anyone else's.   And that my friend is the only reason waltrip ever won a race.

Answer 11

Mikey is to restrictor plate racing what Boris Said is to road course racing.  The only 2 places he has won are Daytona (3 times) and Talladega (1 time) plus Dale put a huge emphasis on the plate races.  He also had Jr. as a drafting partner and they worked very well together.  All 4 wins came in a 3 year window, from 2001 to 2003, and DEI has gone down hill from there.  You can't convince ignorant people of the truth if they don't want to hear it, keep your head in the sand and enjoy the view!  BTW, I am NOT a card carrying member of Jr Nation, merely pointing out that the basis for your argument is flawed.

EDIT:  Mikey was in place to win the Daytona 500 THIS YEAR, he was leading with Jimmie pushing him with one or 2 laps to go, when he blew an engine.  They were WAY faster than anyone else at the time.  Do you even watch the races?  Plus, did you read my answer, DEI was pretty good with their plate program back then.  You got the wrong guy, I have never said Jr is the greatest driver now or ever.

3 STR8 N 08!!!

Answer 12

Why would anyone want to convince you that he is a great driver?  We all have our own beliefs and we don't need excuses.  Nobody said he should be the winningest driver.  At DEI, perhaps Michael had his equipment, and Jr. had his equipment, and the teams were just "different".  Mikey's not a bad driver, but not the best either.  Timing, equipment, state of mind, opportunity, strategy, etc. all had an effect on his wins.

Go Jr.>>>>

Answer 13

Its not that bad.  Its a poor excuse to camoflauge the hypocrisy of Jr going to HMS(the enemy to JR fans at the time).  Just like the poor excuse that Kyle tore up all the Hendrick equipment and thats why he was let go which wasn't true as well.    He was a chaser and had an incredible laps completed percentage.  DEI was the JGR for a few years or the HMS of last year or the ROUSH of a few years ago.  Its all just poor excuses.  All I see was one bad season.    I didn't see Jeff Gordon abandon ship when he didn't make the chase.      So now DEI has poor equipment.   Please.  Mark Martin was destroying people at Phoenix until it turned into a fuel race.  Truex has had poor luck and penalties.    Its too funny.

Answer 14

When Waltrip won, DEI was at the top of it's game.  Dale, Sr. had spent the bucks to get restrictor plate racing figured out.  He didn't like restrictor plate racing, but he could "see the air, feel the air, be the air".  lol

Mikey benefited from Ironhead's knowledge.  It's got nothing to do with Junior.

Answer 15

...Just another excuse from Jr. Nation

Answer 16

It took DEI a few years to crash after Dale died.  Waltrip won his 4 races over the same time period as Jr won his 17 races.  They had a very good restrictor plate engine in the early 2000's.  You cant deny that DEI has fallen a long way in the last 3-4 years.  They aren't good this year either.

Answer 17

Ok, DEI equipment was good until 2005. For some reason after that everything went to c**p.

1. For starters the engines last year were c**p, 13 blown engines including 3 in the fall Talladega race(plus 1 RCR car running the same engine). Not a good thing. BTW look at the 01 car it ran both HMS(with Ginn) and DEI engines last year. Ran a lot better with the HMS engines.

2. Until DEI merged with Ginn, they didn't have up to date testing equipment, h**l JR Motorsports had a 7 post shaker rig for 1 Busch car and 3 late models, and in fact they used JRM's to test DEI cars.

3. Now DEI and RCR are using the same engine shop, but the RCR cars have been running a lot better than the DEI cars.

Answer 18

If you dont remember Dale Earnhardt Sr was still alive. Teresa wasnt running the show.