Last year in October, NASCAR 25 hit the shelves, and the reception was largely positive. Yes, the game did come with its set of criticisms as well, but it managed to be a multi-million dollar success, having sold over 100,000 copies. Thanks to this, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has now brought good news for NASCAR and gaming fans.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. revealed one detail about the NASCAR 25 soundtrack

Back in January, he sent out a tweet to fans, recruiting their help. Just like last year’s NASCAR 25 game, he wanted their suggestions for the game’s soundtrack. Fast forward to three months later, and Dale Jr has provided an update about the new game’s soundtrack.

He wrote on X, “The soundtrack for the next console @nascar game is coming together. Got 19 songs currently to get rights to. Feel like we learned a lot from last year to make this group even better. Plus, working on the options to control what you want to hear and what you dont.”

As he mentioned, it’s not easy to find songs to add to a game’s soundtrack. Each song has certain rights, and using them for anything requires permission from the artists and their labels. Those artists and labels likely earn royalties from the songs’ usage in games as well. Judging from the latter half of his comments, Dale Earnhardt Jr is promising that players can customize the soundtracks to their liking.

This is something that was often seen in games like GTA, Burnout Revenge, Forza Motorsports and more. So this isn’t exactly a novel concept, but it is relatively uncommon in the gaming genre. Dale Jr has insisted that the development team has learned from NASCAR 25, and the subsequent title will be a step up from that.

Dale Jr made a confession about the Hall of Fame

Away from the track, one could say that he was the face of NASCAR and he did his part to give back to it. Dale Jr was hugely popular with the NASCAR fanbase, winning the Most Popular Driver 15 consecutive years. So it was surprising when he confessed on the Dale Jr Download that he was inducted too early into the Hall of Fame.

He said, “I would have preferred to have waited, and the Ray Elders, the Randy Dorton’s — all those guys that were here a long time ago — they should get in. But a guy like me pops up on the damn ballot and goes right to the front of the line. It’s like when you’re checking in to get your flight, you gotta wait your turn.”

Apparently, there is a rule about Hall of Fame eligibility in NASCAR. They are eligible to be in the Hall of Fame, at least two years after retiring from full-time racing and must have enjoyed a career spanning more than 10 years. By the time Dale Earnhardt Jr stepped away, he was a 26-time Cup Series winner and two-time Daytona 500 champion. In addition to that, he clinched back-to-back Busch Series championships, which earned him Cup Series promotion.

However, the central issue of the debate right now is whether the HoF should consider non-Cup drivers or not, the conversation that started on Junior’s podcast itself about Justin Allgaier’s eligibility discussion. Interestingly, Junior himself never won a Cup title, so by that logic, his 2021 nomination also shouldn’t have taken place. But as Junior argued, it’s “NASCAR Hall of Fame,” and not “NASCAR Cup Hall of Fame.”