Dale Earnhardt Jr. largely loved the All Star Race on Sunday afternoon at Dover Motor Speedway however largely as a regular race and never as a part of the lineage it represented.
To that finish, the Corridor of Famer and winner of the 2000 operating of ‘The Winston’ has his personal concepts with what to do with the occasion.
“We’re doing an excessive amount of,” Earnhardt stated on his Dale Jr. Obtain podcast on Tuesday. “The (1987) race is known. The (1992) One Sizzling Evening was a legendary race. All these had been easy codecs — 50 laps, 25 laps, 10.
“You’ve gotten your Open and a assist system, O’Reilly’s and Vans, no matter. … That’s all it must be.”
So, Earnhardt needs to run the All-Star Race on the Wednesday evening earlier than the Coca-Cola 600, giving the trade an off-weekend within the course of. He would give Dover again its factors race. His format would solely embrace 20-ish automobiles, winners from 2026 and possibly the again half of 2025.
“You possibly can may even do the final 20 winners, 20 automotive discipline, that’s it,” Earnhardt stated.
He thinks it’s essential to have an Open for the remainder of the sector to race their approach in, however no fan vote.
“We’ll take the winner,” Earnhardt stated. “Not fucking second or third — the man who gained the Open will get in. So there’s 19 locked in and the winner of The Open to go race for one million bucks. That’s all you might want to do on a Wednesday evening.
“You don’t want the entire rattling discipline on the market. You don’t have to put on everybody out and beat everybody’s shit up. You’ve gotten a few guys in The Open to go on the market and placed on an excellent race.”
Earnhardt says that is an appetizer for the Coca-Cola 600.
“However most significantly, I do not need them to eliminate the All-Star Race,” Earnhardt stated. “And you already know why? For everybody who gained it, it is a kick within the balls man. It is like eliminating the Daytona 500. Why would you eliminate the Daytona 500? You would not. It is a legendary race. Should you eliminate it, all of the historical past that goes with it turns into nugatory.”
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