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This yr’s NASCAR All-Star Race drew combined critiques from the inventory automobile loving crowd. With some having fun with the occasion in North Wilkesboro, and others believing there’s nonetheless room for the game to enhance it.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. leans extra in direction of the latter (though he did get pleasure from 2025’s festivities). And on the newest episode of his “Dale Jr. Obtain” podcast, the Corridor of Famer pitched his “genius” thought to make the celebration much more particular.
“I might be OK with a way that we mix the Conflict and the All-Star Race,” Dale Earnhardt mentioned. “The Conflict must be pole winners solely. I do not need anyone else in it. However that is by no means going to occur. We’re by no means going again to that. … The All-Star Race must be winners solely.”
“Each time the Conflict comes round, there’s this tiny group of parents which are going, ‘What are we doing this for?’ There’s even those that personal these race vehicles and drive them that do not wish to go to the Conflict and compete. They’re losing their time,” the two-time Daytona winner continued.
“Then you might have this All-Star Race, and there is a small bit a gaggle of those that the race ought to simply go away. It is not enjoyable anymore. … Take each of these and mix them,” Dale Jr. concluded. “Let’s have a good time the drivers which have received races.”
North Wilkesboro Speedway has been dwelling to NASCAR’s All-Star Race for 3 seasons now. Nevertheless, many consider it is time to shift it again to close by Charlotte.
BRISTOL, TENNESSEE – SEPTEMBER 20: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 Hellmann’s Chevrolet, seems on throughout observe for the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence Meals Metropolis 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on September 20, 2024 in Bristol, Tennessee. (Picture by James Gilbert/Getty Photos)James Gilbert/Getty Photos
Earnhardt does consider there’s a spot within the sport for North Wilkesboro to be a factors race although. Which he outlined ought to have the identical guidelines and protocols as the entire different races.
What are your ideas on the NASCAR 75 driver’s takes? Is there room for the short-track oval within the Cup?
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