Dale Earnhardt Jr Brutally Shuts Down NASCAR Fans After Getting Criticized Over Ross Chastain Comparisons to His Famous Father
Perhaps in no other’s driver case more than Ross Chastain’s has Dale Earnhardt’s name been mentioned so much in the last year and a half. This is mostly because of the way he races on the track. But after Chastain’s punch to Noah Gragson at Kansas, Dale Earnhardt Jr. argued that NASCAR should capitalize on Chastain the way they did with his father.
However, this was something for which NASCAR fans bashed Junior.
Junior gets called out by NASCAR fans for his Dale Earnhardt-Ross Chastain point
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Speaking in a recent episode of his podcast show, Junior claimed the Chastain-Gragson incident “is NASCAR’s opportunity to turn Ross Chastain into from a superstar in the NASCAR bubble to a national star in the mainstream.”
He recalled how people in the late 1980s and into the next decade began capitalizung on his father’s on track actions.
“They created a persona through marketing through souvenirs that went nationwide. The Intimidator, the Man in Black, you know where you saw those for the first time? On a hat. On a tshirt,” Earnhardt Jr explained. “That was a marketing campaign. It took off. It became a persona. We’re there.”
“Where’s my ‘Droppin’ the Hammer’ Ross tshirt?”
This argument by Junior led to some disagreements among the fans who didn’t agree with Dale Earnhardt Sr’s son’s point about his own father.
Ross Chastain and Dale Earnhardt shouldn’t even be in the same sentence together.
— Bryan Dunaway (@BryanDunaway2) May 9, 2023
Earnhardt didn’t have to hide behind a security guard after throwing a punch
— Death Valley enthusiast (@tlng948) May 9, 2023
Earnhardt didn’t have to hide behind a security guard after throwing a punch
— Death Valley enthusiast (@tlng948) May 9, 2023
So with all the criticism of his point, Junior had a reaction of his own.
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Reacting to a clip of his comments on which he got the backlash, Junior wrote, “All these people tellin’ ME who Dale Earnhardt was.”
“I am not saying Ross is the new Sr. I’m only saying Nascar/Trackhouse has a chance to capitalize on the attention. In a similar way Nascar and souvenir businesses did with dad (and others) in the late 80s early 90.”
Earnhardt Jr further emphasized his point with the stat that proved Chastain & Gragson’s altercation had more Twitter engagements than the next 23 drivers combined.
“Chastain+Gragson combined for about 120,500, while the next 23 combined for about 120,000 including 38K for @DennyHamlin,” journalist Adam Stern reported.
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— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) May 9, 2023
So perhaps Junior is right. Perhaps Ross Chastain is and should be the next big thing for NASCAR.
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The question is, what’s your opinion?