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.
Whereas some followers instructed that monitor proprietor Speedway Motorsports Inc. would possibly take into account altering that space sooner or later, Earnhardt mentioned no such change could be mandatory.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. appears to be like on throughout follow for the Daytona 500.Peter Casey-Imagn Pictures
Nevertheless, the 50-year-old revealed he’s very a lot open to alter in one other space when speaking a couple of totally different incident with one other considered one of his JRM drivers, Justin Allgaier, who had a dominant automobile 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 automobile pushed by Kris Wright.
“Look, if our automobile does not run into Kris, I bought no drawback in any respect,” Earnhardt admitted. “Solely cause why I am even a bit upset about it’s as a result of it was our man that bought 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.
“That is one thing this man wants to determine is like, ‘Hey man, the place am I speculated to go to present the opposite guys the very best likelihood to get round me?’ He did not select this correctly at this specific level. Hopefully subsequent time he does. Numerous different folks bought round him simply high-quality.
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“I am not gonna give the man a ton of [expletive]. What I can say is and I’ve had this drawback for a very long time again even after I was method early in my very own driving profession, the minimal pace rule will not be value something. The minimal pace 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 scorching take, a set off phrase that it is insulting a bit once 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 pace rule and for those who take a look at what minimal pace is in any respect these racetracks it’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous and it ought to be a way more harder factor to attain.”
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