I think NASCAR just periodically, if they do, they go -- they like to be able to pick and choose who they listen to, go to advice four. I wish we did have that voice. You know, I think that there's a lot of guys out there with a lot of good things to say and a lot of things that would be able to make NASCAR's job easier. Maybe they need to get up in that trailer. Maybe they do. I don't get up in that trailer much.
Q.
Do you need to be that voice?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.:
I don't think I'll need to be, but I'll do it. As I get older, if I ever can visualize that this is the last five years of my career, I'll probably start to be a little more prominent around here.
Q.
Richard Petty last year here said that that role is yours if you want it. Do you even want it?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.:
I didn't know that or I'd have took it (laughter). I thought I was still a rookie.
Q.
You're a media-savvy guy. Your dad's anniversary, five years, did you have to sort of mentally prepare yourself to come here?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.:
I didn't really expect it to be talked about a lot. Hadn't really -- I hadn't personally thought about it. Obviously, I heard it mentioned a few times over the last couple weeks. But I didn't really know or really I didn't even think that there would be a lot going on, a lot of tributes or anything happening prior to the race, building up to the race, or really a lot of talk in the media. Because I didn't -- there aren't too many other things that you celebrate a fifth anniversary of. You know what I mean? I didn't think it was that big a deal.
Q.
"Anniversary" might not be the right word.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.:
Yeah, I mean, you know, whatever you want to call it. But maybe the 25th or something like that. But, you know, the silver, whatever.
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