Heartbroken Dale Earnhardt Jr Gets Upset Over the Dreary State of NASCAR’s Biggest Attraction

In all fairness, NASCAR is certainly one of the most cherished sports on the planet, with a loyal fan following and a peculiar traditional racing format. But despite all the good efforts from the organization, lately, things have been going down south for NASCAR.

With frequent criticism from the fraternity, including drivers, about the growing competition and NASCAR’s new efforts, Legend and former driver Dale Earnhardt Jr is heartbroken to see the sport losing its steam!

Speaking to his longtime friend and co-host Mike Davis after the race at Martinsville, which is a short track, Dale Jr expresses his sorrow to witness the sport being pushed away from its core values.

Dale Earnhardt Jr is disheartened to witness fans lose passion for one of NASCAR’s best attractions

In the latest episode of the ‘Dale Jr Download’ podcast, the community saw a broken Dale Jr as he laid the foundation for the saddening present scenario of the sport. Joining his friend, Mike Davis, Dale Jr expresses his sorrow, to say, “all that steam is slowing down.”

Dale Jr said, “Nobody is all fired up about short tracks anymore. Which really really sucks because that’s the core, that’s the core that’s where the sport was born and made, and um we should be eagerly, aggressively working to make sure that, that is something, a product that we are extremely proud of and cannot wait to revisit week after week.”

While Dale Jr talks about the recent and apparent dislike of the short track format, Davis quickly jumps in to make his point loud and clear, “Yeah, feels like we’re losing our identity.” 

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Reflecting on the matter, the duo discuss the sudden change in the notion

Despite NASCAR’s positive efforts to uphold short-track races by including more traditional short tracks and reconfiguring speedways to include more events as part of the short format, it seems that there’s this skepticism floating among the community, or at least it appears that way.

As the veteran driver perfectly puts it across, “My heart breaks because we went from begging for more short tracks, lets drop back about 3 or 4 years, short track racing was our best product. We were begging, there was t-shirts out there, more short tracks, everybody was hashtagging it on social media and now that idea of the sport sort of cycling back around, North Wilkesboro is coming back and more other short tracks are being considered and you know Fontana, California turning into short track, all that steam is slowing down.” 

And it is the shift in the scenario that breaks Dale’s heart.

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With time, every sport is bound to evolve. But replacing its core values? That certainly is a far-fetched step as the 2-time Daytona winner Dale Earnhardt Jr expressed.