Based on reality

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2019)

It's 2019, nearly 20 years since DOT hit theaters. Dale Earnhardt Jr has a weekly podcast. A recent guest was Richard Childress, team and car owner of the famed Goodwrench 3.
Among all his great stories and memories, Richard shared the dining/car rental scene is based on reality, really happened, and was very close resemblance of what was said.
Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine spent more than a season intentionally wrecking each other. Bill France Jr called them in, sat them down, told them they had to drive to dinner together. At dinner they were told to knock it off.
I had no idea DOT reflected an actual event. Pretty cool.