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Fast talking: Darrell Waltrip is a legend. Carl Edwards is NASCAR's hottest young star. Get them together and the conversation takes surprising twists. You don't even need to pop a question to get the fun started.(NASCAR)(Interview)

The Sporting News

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DARRELL WALTRIP: I remember as a kid going to watch those cars run. I was fascinated by that. I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. The car going around the corner ... CARL EDWARDS: Exactly.

WALTRIP: Throwing the dirt up in the grandstand ...

EDWARDS: Yup.

WALTRIP: Making all that noise ...

EDWARDS: Yup. Yup.

WALTRIP: I thought if there's anything any cooker than that, I don't know what it is.

EDWARDS: I remember going to school and playing at recess with the cars. People would be sliding the cars in the dirt, and they'd be doing it all wrong. "That's not how it's supposed to look."

SPORTING NEWS: D.W., the sport doesn't even resemble what it was from when you started.

WALTRIP: I remember being at Michigan. I blew up practicing. I had no spare motor. Walter Ballard blew up practicing. He had a spare motor. So we took my engine out of my car and we took his blown engine, and right in the garage we took them both apart. We took the good parts of his, the good parts of mine, put it all together, put it in the car, and I raced.

SN: How'd you do?

WALTRIP: I raced good. I probably finished in the top 10 or so. The thing ran all day.

SN: Athletes talk about the action slowing down. When did that happen to you guys?

EDWARDS: The first time that happened to me I was racing a guy for a win at a local dirt track. After the race, there were parts that I could tell you every little piece of dirt that was flying through the air. There were parts I couldn't remember. You get so focused in, weird things happen. It's like you're wearing the car.

WALTRIP: When you're doing 207 or 208 miles per hour down the straightaway, you don't know it. It really doesn't dawn on you. A racecar, to …

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