Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick\u2019s CARS Tour serves as a stepping stone for drivers who aspire to reach NASCAR, since NASCAR has been renowned for oval racing. Although the series has now embraced various track configurations like road courses and street circuits in its schedule to heighten spectator interest while attracting drivers from outside and capitalizing on new drivers\u2019 fan followings, CARS Tour has remained faithful to its foundations.<\/p>\n
The grassroots racing series primarily operates as a short-track oval series, featuring tracks less than one mile in length and concentrating on oval tracks throughout the Southeastern United States, such as North Wilkesboro, Florence, and Southern National Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n
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The series briefly experimented with a road course in 2019 during its first visit to Dominion Raceway in Thornburg, Virginia, a race won by Josh Berry. Since then, however, it has not returned to that format.<\/p>\n
That could change. Recently, a fan tagged Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/a> on social media about the condition of Virginia International Raceway and asked for his help in bringing a race to the road course, writing, \u201c@DaleJr Cars tour at VIR would feed families.\u201d<\/p>\n Earnhardt Jr. responded positively, while also outlining the challenges involved.\u201cIt would be awesome to find a pathway to get even one road course event on our schedule,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019ve learned through the Dodge deal that, on the front end, we would need different transmissions and oil pans. There\u2019s also a lot more expense per team to consider beyond that, but it\u2019s not entirely unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n Given that fans recognize how fervently Dale Jr. has championed oval racing in NASCAR and grassroots racing series like CARS Tour, fans began commenting, \u201cDon\u2019t need to add a road course to the CARS tour. It\u2019s a late model series for short tracks.\u201d Meanwhile, one supporter jokingly stated, \u201cHey @DaleJr blink twice if you are being held against your will. We will send help.\u201d<\/p>\n An astonished enthusiast remarked, \u201cDale wanting a road course? The world truly is upside down,\u201d and a fourth devotee sarcastically countered<\/a>, \u201cMan its brakes, shocks, springs, oil system, coolers, transmission, clutch maybe. Stay in your lane.\u201d<\/p>\n Earnhardt\u2019s track record on road courses never matched his skills on ovals; Dale Jr. himself averaged a 20.3 finish on road and street courses during his NASCAR career. And he had stated previously that while road course racing represents a legitimate and valuable component of modern NASCAR, the sport\u2019s roots lie in oval racing, and he would prefer a maximum of two road courses on the schedule.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Even recently, after Charlotte ROVAL was removed from the playoffs and the sport opted instead for oval racing, Dale Jr. said it makes zero difference<\/a> to him personally, which made his support for a road-course event for his own CARS Tour race an unexpected development for everyone.<\/p>\n The post \u2018The World Is Upside Down\u2019: NASCAR Fans React to Dale Earnhardt Jr. Looking at a Possible CARS Tour Road Course Event<\/a> appeared first on The SportsRush<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick\u2019s CARS Tour serves as a stepping stone for drivers who aspire to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,112523,14056,634,36955,43326,102256,82,183177],"class_list":["post-442933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cars-tour","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-nascar","tag-oval-racing","tag-phoenix-raceway","tag-road-courses","tag-sports","tag-virginia-international-raceway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442933","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=442933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}