“Gave Us a Bit of IndyCar, Open Wheel, F1 Style” – Dale Jr Commends NASCAR Latest Change While Sharing His Opinion on Tyler Reddick’s Win

Ahead of the start of the 2023 season, NASCAR decided to implement a major change with road course races. The change is the exclusion of stage breaks. So instead of slowing down like they previously did, they’d just continue on. So after the conclusion of the first road course race of the season at COTA, former NASCAR driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr, shared his thoughts about this change.

During his conversation, he also mentioned Tyler Reddick and how amazing his performance was during the race. Moreover, he also asked NASCAR to include several more changes in the races to make them more interesting. Referencing the likes of IndyCar and Formula 1, to justify his point.

Dale Earnhardt Jr suggests ways to improve racing while admiring Tyler Reddick

After appreciating NASCAR’s decision to remove stage breaks from road courses, Junior, on his Dale Jr Download Podcast, mentioned, “we need strategy races.”

“We need fuel mileage races. We need a little bit of everything and this certainly checks some of those boxes. Gave us a bit of an, you know, an IndyCar, open-wheel, F1 style strategy race where different teams were on different strategies.”

He went on to talk about Tyler Reddick and how fast he was during the race, while also appreciating the two-stop strategy used by most people. Elaborating on the 23XI Racing driver, Junior said, “Tyler Reddick was so fast, he could make three stops and still beat the field.”

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Junior then congratulated Reddick and his team, saying, “It’s impressive what he’s (Reddick) been able to do on road courses in a very short period of time being in a Cup Series.”

Earnhardt Jr found the COTA race to be too long despite no stage breaks

The removal of stage breaks should have made the race duration a tad bit shorter than normal. However, for the former Hendrick Motorsports driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr, the race did not feel to be any shorter. During the same podcast, Junior talks about how he enjoyed the race but believed that it felt longer.

It would perhaps have been the number of times the race went in overtime, considering the amount of carnage it witnessed during the final few laps.

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