A minimum of from a brief observe and highway course standpoint, Dale Earnhardt Jr. needs to reset the NextGen automotive, or no less than simplify it.
He issued some commentary in regards to the state of the seventh-generation Cup Collection platform on Tuesday throughout the newest episode of his Dale Jr. Obtain podcast. This was following the race on Sunday on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, which featured an amazing quantity of tire degradation and improved racing due to it.
“I do just like the tire, the falloff. That’s like one little factor, however there’s so many little issues that I want had been totally different,” Earnhardt stated. “The tire this weekend — so good. Extra of that, please. I’ll be sincere, this automotive — I’ve talked in size about this automotive on this present. Issues in regards to the automotive bodily that I simply don’t assume belongs on the automotive.
“The underbody and all of that stuff. I’d actually tear this automotive aside and strip it down, eliminate some shit. I’d not contact it in its present type for the mile-and-a-half and stuff.”
By underbody, Earnhardt is referencing the truth that the NextGen is totally sealed off beneath the automotive in ways in which earlier era of Cup Collection racing machines weren’t. Groups obtained actually inventive in attempting to maximise downforce beneath their automobiles so within the curiosity of parity, NASCAR sealed the underbody.
However that’s solely particularly problematic on quick tracks and highway programs and never the intermediate tracks, the place racing has drastically improved from earlier era of automobiles.
To that time, NASCAR introduced this week a rise in horsepower on quick tracks and highway programs from 670 to 750.
However along with that, Earnhardt needs to eliminate the sealed underbody and strip the automotive of parts just like the rear diffuser as effectively.
“However for the automotive I’m gonna take to Martinsville, it will be just like the unplugged model as an alternative of the complete band,” Earnhardt stated. “It might be the unplugged model of the Subsequent Gen. You don’t want all that shit. It’d be so primary and boring, you’d beat the shit out of it.
“Go on the market and beat the shit out of it. It may look the identical to you on TV, however beneath the shell, it will be a a lot, a lot less complicated, leaner model.”
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