Dale Earnhardt Jr., regardless of being retired for years, continues to be an influential voice in NASCAR. He shares that voice weekly on his “Dale Jr. Obtain” podcast.
On this week’s episode, the NASCAR Corridor of Famer talked concerning the weekend at Texas, together with JR Motorsports driver Carson Kvapil hitting the infield grass simply previous the start-finish line and successfully ruining his day in an incident just like what Junior skilled on the 1.5-mile monitor in 2014.
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Whereas some followers prompt that monitor proprietor Speedway Motorsports Inc. may take into account altering that space sooner or later, Earnhardt mentioned no such change could be crucial.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. appears on throughout follow for the Daytona 500.Peter Casey-Imagn Photographs
Nonetheless, the 50-year-old revealed he’s very a lot open to vary in one other space when speaking a few totally different incident with one other one among his JRM drivers, Justin Allgaier, who had a dominant automotive and led a race-high 99 laps however noticed his race come to an finish within the third stage when he bumped into the again of the lapped automotive pushed by Kris Wright.
“Look, if our automotive would not run into Kris, I acquired no downside in any respect,” . “Solely cause why I am even a bit upset about it’s as a result of it was our man that acquired concerned in it. However for years there’s been sluggish independents on the market grinding away on the racetrack. They all the time knew the place to be.
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“That is one thing this man wants to determine is like, ‘Hey man, the place am I presupposed to go to provide the opposite guys the most effective likelihood to get round me?’ He did not select this correctly at this explicit level. Hopefully subsequent time he does. Lots of different individuals acquired round him simply high-quality.
“I am not gonna give the man a ton of [expletive]. What I can say is and I’ve had this downside for a very long time again even once I was manner early in my very own driving profession, the minimal velocity rule will not be price something. The minimal velocity rule is egregiously lenient. It is ridiculous.
“I do not like utilizing the phrase joke as a result of I do not like – that is a sizzling take, a set off phrase that it is insulting a bit while you use it speaking concerning the governing physique and issues that we’re doing within the sport. I hate utilizing that phrase and so I hesitate to make use of it. The minimal velocity rule and should you take a look at what minimal velocity is in any respect these racetracks it’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous and it ought to be a way more more durable factor to attain.”
