{"id":352890,"date":"2025-12-18T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352890\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:34:27","slug":"jesse-love-puts-finger-on-biggest-problem-in-nascar-hits-f1-with-major-stray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352890\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Love puts finger on ‘biggest problem’ in NASCAR, hits F1 with major stray"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Love wants more people to have the same mentality he has about NASCAR as he gets ready for the 2026 season. On the Door Bumper Clear podcast,<\/a> Love revealed what the \u201cbiggest problem\u201d NASCAR has right now, and he also took a shot at F1. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that every sport has people with their gripes,\u201d Jesse Love said. \u201cRight now, I hate to see the state that it\u2019s in because it seems like everybody\u2019s wanting to be against it. I\u2019ll probably get flak for saying it, but I do think that\u2019s our biggest problem is that it\u2019s become so not trendy, but popular to be against, A) NASCAR and be against everything that has to do with it. I think that\u2019s the biggest problem. I think what we have right now is actually really great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Love continued, \u201cI just got back from Australia, where all the people really enjoyed what they were doing where they were at. I watched the F1 race, which was probably the worst racing I watched all year as far as a product goes, and people seemed to love that. I\u2019m team pro sport, right? I want the sport to be in a really good place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesse Love is the defending O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series champion<\/p>\n

Fans who are critical of NASCAR likely have an issue with the playoff format. Kyle Larson won the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Championship<\/a> but did not win one of the 10 playoff races. Before the start of the 2025 season, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer John Probst said the playoff format will be reconsidered ahead of 2026. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we want to get in the habit of making small little tweaks every season to the playoffs,\u201d Probst said, per ESPN<\/a>. \u201cWhere we landed was for 2025, not making any changes to the playoffs. Throughout the course of this year, we will get a working group together with some media folks, OEMs, Goodyear, drivers. \u2026 We probably talked to most of the folks one-on-one about, \u2018where are we at? What are we thinking?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Love doesn\u2019t have a big issue with NASCAR\u2019s playoff format because he won the Xfinity Series (now O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series) championship this past season. The 20-year-old began the season with a win at Daytona and ended it with a win at the title race at Phoenix. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Love wants more people to have the same mentality he has about NASCAR as he gets ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-352890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}