{"id":1321205,"date":"2021-02-17T16:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1321205"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:28:05","slug":"dale-earnhardt-nearly-lost-nascar-friend-rusty-wallace-over-jeff-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/dale-earnhardt-nearly-lost-nascar-friend-rusty-wallace-over-jeff-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Nearly Lost 1 of His Few NASCAR Friends Over Jealousy of Jeff Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There were <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/motorsports\/\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> drivers who feared <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/dale-earnhardt-sr-always-cringed-at-a-very-specific-compliment\/\">Dale Earnhardt Sr.<\/a> and drivers who respected him. Few in the business counted the racing legend among their friends. The man nicknamed \u201cThe Intimidator\u201d was more interested in winning races than winning friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rusty Wallace was one of the rare drivers who got along well with Earnhardt, but that friendship nearly went out the window when their plot to gang up on young star <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/jeff-gordon-and-clint-bowyer-work-together-on-fox-just-a-few-years-after-ugly-on-track-feud-and-divorce-in-friendship\/\">Jeff Gordon<\/a> went sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeff-gordon-was-rattling-nascar-s-old-guard\">Jeff Gordon was rattling NASCAR\u2019s old guard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from Alan Kulwicki (1992), the list of recent NASCAR Cup Series annual champions before the 1995 season consisted of the sport\u2019s old guard. Dale Earnhardt Sr. triumphed six times in nine years, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/nascar-legend-bill-elliott-narrowly-escaped-death-after-a-horrifying-f-16-mid-air-collision-that-caused-the-other-jet-to-crash\/\">Bill Elliott<\/a>, Rusty Wallace, and Darrell Waltrip were others on that list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 10 Dale Earnhardt Moments in NASCAR | NASCAR Legends\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0EQewqMMF3A?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 1995 marked the emergence of Jeff Gordon. Just 23 years old when the season began, Gordon was blossoming at <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/hendrick-motorsports-has-made-it-all-the-way-back-after-a-tragic-plane-crash\/\">Hendrick Motorsports<\/a>. After scoring two victories in 1994, Gordon tore it up the next year by winning seven races on the way to the first of his four points crowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he arrived in Tennessee for the season\u2019s second Bristol race, he already owned five wins and had finished in the top 10 in his last eight races. Earnhardt and Wallace decided to slow his momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That proved to be a mistake that nearly ended their friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dale-earnhardt-was-jealous-of-jeff-gordon-s-rapid-rise\">Dale Earnhardt was jealous of Jeff Gordon\u2019s rapid rise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dale Earnhardt romped to the NASCAR Cup Series championship in 1994, with Mark Martin and Rusty Wallace rounding out the top three. Midway through the 1995 schedule, however, Jeff Gordon was on his way to the championship in just his third full-time season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEarnhardt and myself back then were having a problem with Gordon,\u201d Wallace said, according to Bristol Motor Speedway on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ItsBristolBaby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Youtube<\/a>. \u201cHe was one of our main competitors. He was a young kid coming in. It was basically [Earnhardt] and I both jealous and mad that Gordon was sucking up all the attention and winning all the races.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallace said Earnhardt approached him before the August race at Bristol and suggested they \u201cget this kid out of the way.\u201d Wallace implied they intended to knock Gordon into the wall and out of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, we take off and get about four or five laps into the race, \u201cWallace recalled, \u201cand I come off turn four and get just a little bit loose. Earnhardt is right on my back and smashed my back. I spin out and hit the wall, and (now) I\u2019ve gotta run around all 500 miles with that car beat to pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terry Labonte won the Goody\u2019s 500, Earnhardt was second, and Gordon finished sixth. Wallace finished but completed just 454 miles and placed 21<sup>st<\/sup>. He described himself as \u201cmad as a hornet\u201d the entire night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterward, Wallace hurled a water bottle at Earnhardt to get his attention amidst all the noise and commotion in the pits. The bottle hit Earnhardt squarely in the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWell, he just shot up and looked up and saw me. And then it was game on.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Rusty Wallace<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dale-earnhardt-and-rusty-wallace-clear-the-air\">Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace clear the air<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Furious over being hit by the water bottle, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/dale-earnhardts-fatal-daytona-500-crash-followed-the-big-1\/\">Dale Earnhardt Sr.<\/a> grabbed Rusty Wallace, recalled Don Hawk, president of Dale Earnhardt Inc. at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c(Earnhardt) said, \u2018You know what, we can fight here and make a scene. Or you can come to the farm on Monday, and we\u2019ll either fight it out or talk it out like two men.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From The Vault: Dale Earnhardt Sr. wins 1998 Daytona 500\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_F3KyllNdg?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure enough, Wallace showed up for the summit. Hawk was also there and didn\u2019t know what to make of it when the two got into Earnhardt\u2019s truck and disappeared for well over three hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey came back in, they ate lunch, they disappeared again,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cThey came in, and Dale said, \u2018You\u2019re not going to believe this; I actually have Miller beer for you.\u2019 And they drank a beer in the shop over a picnic table. (DEI crew chief) Tony Eury Sr. was like, \u2018You\u2019ve got to be kidding me. Earnhardt is having a beer with Rusty Wallace.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawk never found out what was said, but he took an educated guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure they yelled at each other a little bit, talked at each other a little bit, but they came out of there with respect,\u201d he said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2021\/02\/16\/nascar-racing-dale-earnhardt-remembering-the-intimidator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Like <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Sports7dotcom\/\"><em>Sports7<\/em><\/a><em> on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sports719\"><em>@sports719<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace held a summit to repair their friendship after their plot against Jeff Gordon went wrong during a 1995 NASCAR Cup Series race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":1574840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253795],"tags":[118377],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dale Earnhardt Nearly Lost 1 of His Few NASCAR Friends Over Jealousy of Jeff Gordon - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace held a summit to clear the air after their plot against Jeff Gordon failed during a NASCAR Cup Series race.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/dale-earnhardt-nearly-lost-nascar-friend-rusty-wallace-over-jeff-gordon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dale Earnhardt Nearly Lost 1 of His Few NASCAR Friends Over Jealousy of Jeff Gordon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace held a summit to clear the air after their plot against Jeff Gordon failed during a NASCAR Cup Series race.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/dale-earnhardt-nearly-lost-nascar-friend-rusty-wallace-over-jeff-gordon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-17T21:40:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-14T16:28:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dale-Earnhardt-NASCAR.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"772\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Sports7J\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/dale-earnhardt-nearly-lost-nascar-friend-rusty-wallace-over-jeff-gordon\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/dale-earnhardt-nearly-lost-nascar-friend-rusty-wallace-over-jeff-gordon\/\",\"name\":\"Dale Earnhardt Nearly Lost 1 of His Few NASCAR Friends Over Jealousy of Jeff Gordon - 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