# Episode 405 -- Jimmy Makar on Parting Ways with Dale Jarrett, Making It to the Mountaintop with Bobby Labonte

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Podcast: [The Scene Vault Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-scene-vault-podcast-5993429)
Published: 2026-07-15T12:43:00+00:00
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## Resource

Rick Houston is joined this week by guest co-host Graig Hoffman, executive director at North Wilkesboro Speedway. This week in the third and final installment of our interview, Jimmy Makar remembers saying goodbye to Dale Jarrett as the driver for Joe Gibbs Racing, saying hello to DJ’s replacement, Bobby Labonte and what it was like to sit at the head table at the Winston Cup awards banquet. Rick and Graig then tackle the October 5, 1978 issue of Grand National Scene. Darrell Waltrip THRASHES the field at North Wilkesboro for the first 380 laps … pits … then pits again after being black flagged for a missing lug nut … which hands the victory to Cale Yarborough. D.K. Ulrich loses his appeal over a nitrous oxide system that was discovered on his car following a bad accident at Darlington, despite his insistence AT THE TIME that it was inoperable. And … Junior Johnson comes to the rescue for reporter Mike Mulhern. Please consider supporting the podcast via Patreon.com/thescenevaultpodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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