Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s podcast, the Dale Jr. Download, always has a great guest segment, and almost everyone that comes on the show has some interesting tale about Dale Earnhardt Sr.
That was the exact case on the February 21st episode of the show, as three-time Cup Series champion crew chief Ray Evernham had quite a tale about his time facing Dale Sr.
The pair of NASCAR Hall of Famers talked about several different subjects according to Heavy.com's Kyle Dalton. And of course, the biggest subject was the rivalry between Dale Sr. and Jeff Gordon, who Evernham served as crew chief.
That discussion took a very shocking twist, as Evernham revealed a secret alliance between the two teams.
"Andy (Petree) and I had our own channel between the two of us when he was crew chief for your dad," Dalton quoted Evernham as saying.
Dale Jr. then asked, "And y'all would talk amongst each other?"
"We would talk amongst ourselves," Evernham said.
Earnhardt was baffled and quickly responded "Bulls**t,"
"That's the truth," Evernham replied.
Earnhardt Jr. then asked Evernham about how long the alliance occurred.
"It went on for two years and then Andy went and got his own team and I think we did it for one more year when he had (Ken) Schrader," Evernham confirmed.
"No kidding," an incredulous Earnhardt replied.
"One hundred percent. You ask Andy. We had the three and the 24 were almost their own little teammates," Evernham said.
"No one is going to believe that," Junior suggested before Evernham revealed maybe the biggest shocker of the whole story.
"That's 100 percent true," Evernham said. "I'd talk to Andy on the box about pitting. He'd talk to me about this and that. There was a time in 1994 October at Charlotte I built the shocks for the three car."
Again Earnhardt Jr was completely flabbergasted. "Bulls**t!" he said.
"That's true. I was the crew chief on the 24 and built a set of shocks for the three car," Evernham admitted.
In a move that would have likely been heavily frowned upon by NASCAR, Dale Jr. was certainly shocked by Evernham's little secret.
"Unreal," Earnhardt Jr. said.
For all those Earnhardt versus Gordon fans, this is a shocker, to say the least but are they as surprised as Earnhardt Jr. himself.
