Team Dynamics and 'Days of Thunder'

an opportunity to move down to high point north carolina worked for a really cool guy cliff stewart he's the one who gave me my very first break and uh won the rookie year with him in 1984 and then we had gatorade sponsor in the car and um and then you know we just we started blowing a lot of engines and had a lot of issues and i got the cold phone call from uh from barry dodson a crew chief here at blue max he said i've been watching i believe in you tim richmond's leaving right now he's going over to hendricks to start a new deal i drive for the folgers car he said we'd love to have you drive for us i said man holy smokes came over here first thing that happens pontiac puts me in a big deal which was great like i say remember three races in i win bristol two races later i win martinsville and career was off and running and we went five years as hard as we could and never looked back much at all we were just winning like it was it was almost illegal how much we were winning we're just winning everything you know we leave here go over to charlotte win the all-star race the big controversy me and daryl walter the whole damn infield's fighting i win that race and when you cook 600 i win sonoma i win charlotte when he's winning everything with this team right here out of that little building right there that's crazy now look at all those mom-and-pop shops internet yeah there must be five restaurants in that building there's another one we just drove through here like a month ago and there was nothing in the front of this now there's like another mexican restaurant in there yeah wow everybody said i get to start somewhere right but i got you know i had some good good help along the way but i'll tell you back then this building though i remember coming down here in 86 and walking in and remember looking at it and going man this is such a cool building it's so beautiful inside walls were all striped you know and we're sitting in here i forget what year was they did the days of thunder movie they called me up say tom cruise is coming over and we're winning like hell back then we're in that point where hendrick is getting ready to help uh shoot that movie supplying all the cars and all that stuff but we were really winning a lot of races and so he wanted to talk to us i remember sitting that door right there and they're walking all around that door that first door right there those cruises in there so now how do you do this and what's the lingo i want to hear this…