Dale Earnhardt Jr. had some issues to get off his chest in regards to the quantity placement debate on the Subsequent Gen vehicles.
On this week’s episode of his Dale Jr. Obtain podcast, the previous NASCAR star asserted that there ought to be fewer restrictions on the place numbers will be positioned on the autos. He identified that NASCAR’s efforts to attain “consistency” with quantity placement is foolish if it hurts the aesthetic of the vehicles and limits the methods the vehicles can look.
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“Why would anybody say, ‘No, they shouldn’t transfer the numbers again for Darlington’?” Earnhardt stated. “Why the restrictions? Why are we shackling ourselves, tethering ourselves to some — for model consistency? I don’t know, what are we speaking about? I believed, ‘Man, in the event that they transfer the quantity again for one race and everybody sees how good it seems to be,’ it’s simply going to open up an enormous can of worms.”
Dale Jr. pointed to the widely-praised design utilized by Carson Hocevar at Darlington this previous week, which paid homage to Dale Earnhardt Sr. He praised Hocevar and his workforce for a stellar design.
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“I feel lots of people would say that Hocevar’s group knocked it out of the park,” Earnhardt Jr. stated. “I’m biased… That’s my favourite design of the Wrangler automotive that he ever raced, for certain.”
DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – MAY 11: Patrick Emerling, driver of the #07 Liberty Brew Chevrolet, Brennan Poole, driver of the #44 CW & Sons Infrastructure Chevrolet, Matt DiBenedetto, driver of the #38 Viking Motorsports Ford, Blaine Perkins, driver of the #29 To The Level Attire Ford, David Starr, driver of the #14 SHAR Ford, Josh Williams, driver of the #11 Alloy Employer Providers Chevrolet, and John H. Nemechek, driver of the #26 Toyota Racing Improvement Toyota, race through the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence Crown Royal Purple Bag Venture 200 at Darlington Raceway on Could 11, 2024 in Darlington, South Carolina. (Picture by Meg Oliphant/Getty Photos)Meg Oliphant/Getty Photos
(Meg Oliphant/Getty Photos)NASCAR at Darlington
The marquee occasion at Darlington this previous week was the NASCAR Cup Sequence Goodyear 400. Tyler Reddick took the checkered flag within the Goodyear 400, overcoming early struggles after expertise electrical points to safe his fourth victory of the 2026 season. He began from the pole and held off a aggressive 37-car discipline, with Brad Keselowski second and Ryan Blaney third, displaying a robust efficiency on the historic egg-shaped oval. The outcome bolstered Reddick’s place within the early championship factors because the common season reaches its quarter mark.
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The Sports activities Clips Haircuts VFW 200 of the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence noticed Justin Allgaier emerge victorious. Previous to that, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence Buckle Up South Carolina 200 noticed Corey Heim get the win.
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